Match fixing is a growing threat to the integrity of sport with substantial profits to be made from manipulating an event. Online technology has contributed to this rise by creating new markets with high levels of liquidity, attracting people looking to make profits from match fixing.
A new study has taken examples from football and tennis to show how forensic statistics can be used to detect fixed matches and describes how suspicious matches are investigated by analysts. These models have been used as primary evidence by sports governing bodies to fight corruption and shows that mathematical modelling will continue to be used to protect sport from match fixing.
Read the original article from the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.
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