gambling – Rush The Court

College Basketball’s Unmentionable: the Issue of Point Shaving?

rtmsf — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:11:14 +0000

It’s not often that we stumble across academic research papers these days, but last week we happened upon one from the Department of Economics at Temple University in Philadelphia entitled, “Point Shaving in NCAA Basketball: Corrupt Behavior or Statistical Artifact?” In the paper, Professors George Diemer and Mike Leeds use various statistical analyses to conclude that not only does point shaving regularly occur in college basketball, but it occurs in two specifically defined situations. Their conclusion builds upon prior work by Professor Justin Wolfers at Penn’s Wharton School, who found a few years ago that approximately 1% of lined NCAA basketball games fell into an outlier suggestive of gambling-related [...]

All Ur Base R Belong 2 Us

rtmsf — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:58:34 +0000

Remember this internet sensation from the early 2000s?

We couldn’t help but recall that fine piece of artistry when we came across a site called The Palace of Bling the other day. Turns out they’re going to be providing coverage of the college hoops season for the gamblers among us. Well, let there be no doubt where we plan on getting our hot plays from this year. We’ll save you the linkage by providing you with their full text so you too can see how impressive TPoB is when it comes to the point spreading department. [...]

Tim Donaghy Scandal Fallout

rtmsf — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:44:30 +0000

Much is going to be made over the next week over the disclosure broken Friday by the New York Post that Tim Donaghy, a veteran NBA referee, allegedly became heavily indebted through illegal gambling and was using his position as an official to manipulate point spreads by proxy of organized crime. In other words… pointshaving, quite possibly the dirtiest word in sports. The only good news for the NBA was that the news hit on a summer Friday afternoon after a week of wall-to-wall Michael Vick and Barry Bonds-related outrage coverage.

“Kobe, do you think you could help [...]