The world has gone mad over basketball and men’s collegiate basketball games are not exempted from this phenomenon. Unfortunately, the NCAA Basketball Live Feed service is feeding another phenomenon as well, which is betting on the outcome of each and maybe all the NCAA March Madness games.
Offhand, this wouldn’t be such a big problem because a) you can’t stop people from placing friendly bets on NCAA basketball games and b) if it doesn’t affect the outcome of the collegiate tournament, where’s the harm?
Part b is where the problem starts because small-time gambling and big-time gambling organizations can take advantage of the NCAA Basketball live feed to influence the outcome of the NCAA tournament another phenomenon called “game fixing.” How does this work? It’s like this: suppose you’re a bookie and you know a lot of people are betting on a certain outcome of a game. Logically, you know that if all those people win because that one single outcome does become a reality, you the bookie are dead in the water because you have no funds to pay off all those winners. Even small bets translate to big winnings...