How an algorithm helped global tennis match-fixing investigation
Jan18
on January 18, 2016
at 12:54 pm
Buzzfeed’s John Templon has just unveiled 15 months of hard investigative work conducted with the BBC that reveals possible match-fixing at the top echelons of men’s tennis, facilitated by a few handy algorithms. Using data from the Association of Tennis Professionals along with Grand Slam matches from seven bookmakers, Templon analyzed 26,000 tennis matches from 2009 to 2015 to look for signs that match-fixing might be taking place. Having worked with sports betting investigators to establish a measure, he was looking for games where the odds of someone losing changed by more than 10 percentage points before it was played. This identified 39 possible suspects, against…
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