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  2. Sports betting - Wikipedia

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    Examples include predicting the number of goals a star player scores in an association football match, betting whether a player will run for a certain number of yards in an American football game, or wagering that a baseball player on one team will accumulate more hits than another player on the opposing team. Parlays.

  3. Handicapping - Wikipedia

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    In a 'result adjustment' style handicap event, the outcome may be adjusted by some factor determined by the handicap. Some forms of car or yacht racing. [2] In this case, the winner, on elapsed time, may differ from the fastest competitor when the times have been adjusted for the different competitors' handicaps.

  4. Why Michigan, MSU fans may not be able to bet on players as ...

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    Some examples would be betting on if an individual player made or didn't make a dunk in a game, points scored by an individual player, or even which players will score first.

  5. Sports rating system - Wikipedia

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    A sports rating system is a system that analyzes the results of sports competitions to provide ratings for each team or player. Common systems include polls of expert voters, crowdsourcing non-expert voters, betting markets, and computer systems.

  6. Spread betting - Wikipedia

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    Betting on sporting events has long been the most popular form of spread betting. Whilst most bets the casino offers to players have a built in house edge, betting on the spread offers an opportunity for the astute gambler. When a casino accepts a spread bet, it gives the player the odds of 10 to 11, or -110.

  7. Match fixing - Wikipedia

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    A player might also play poorly to rig a handicap system. [3] Match fixing, when motivated by gambling, requires contacts (and normally money transfers) between gamblers, players, team officials, and/or referees. These contacts and transfers can sometimes be discovered, and lead to prosecution by the law or the sports league(s).

  8. Michigan Gaming Control Board - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] [5] Other forms of charitable gaming, such as bingo and raffles, are regulated by the Michigan Lottery. Due to the sovereignty of Native American tribes , the Board does not have regulatory authority over casinos of federally recognized tribes, but does have oversight authority over the tribes' compliance with the State-Tribal Compact ...

  9. Mathematics of bookmaking - Wikipedia

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    The situation is the same in Match 2 between players C and D. In a fair book in each of their matches, i.e. each has a book of 100%, all players would be offered at odds of Evens (1-1). However, a bookmaker would probably offer odds of 5-6 (for example) on each of the two possible outcomes in each event (each tennis match).