Study reports conspicuous Bundesliga bets
Is German soccer threatened by the next betting scandal? In any case, a study has found conspicuous. However, that doesn't necessarily mean anything for now - and that's why the DFB believes it doesn't have to act.
In the Bundesliga, conspicuous bets are said to have been made over a period of five years. This is the result of a study by the universities of Bielefeld, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, reported by WDR. Specifically, the study involved games officiated by three referees whose names are not mentioned. Bets placed with the British provider Betfair on 1251 Bundesliga matches from the 2010/2011 season up to and including the 2014/2015 season were investigated on best IPL betting app.
The focus was on bets on whether more or less than 2.5 goals would be scored. For the three referees (out of a total of 26), the betting amounts on these bets were said to be significantly higher than for the other referees. However, the study does not prove whether there was manipulation, he said. "The conclusion is not possible that one says this is definitely betting fraud or betting fraud would be present here. But you observe statistical characteristics that you would also expect if there was betting fraud,"' said Christian Deutscher, a sports economist at Bielefeld University and co-author of the study.
The German Football Association pointed out that its own monitoring system - professional soccer has been working with Sportradar since 2005 - had not raised any alarms. Since the incidents involving referee Robert Hoyzer said:
"Like the authors of the present study themselves, Sportradar also comes to the conclusion in the context of an initial analysis that a suspicion of betting manipulation is not substantiated by the data now presented."
The match-fixing expert Eike Emrich from Saarland University, who works in the DFB's "Science" commission, also came to the initial conclusion that "the Bundesliga is proving to be very resistant to match fixing.
