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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by AlexAMEEE on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:21PM (#14160473)
1. Sports betting

2. Oligopoly[0] just a few companies who deliver live results.

You would need a ton of cash upfront, to hire people who would watch the games and would press buttons in order to inform you about results so you could parse them and deliver live results which eventually would become a live API.

But as you can see, there are people involved in this, who watch all those games, if you can manage to automate this, without requiring too many people, you are a rich man.

Let's put in that way, almost everyone consumes their API if they are offline, we are offline.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by jpindar on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:40PM (#14170515)
At least some leagues already provide live feeds of scores and important plays. During NFL games I hang out on a certain irc channel and there's a bot that posts them.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by omarchowdhury on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:20PM (#14161770)
Seems like something that can be crowdsourced cheaply since so many people are watching the sports shows for free anyway.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by AlexAMEEE on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:07PM (#14168994)
They are also betting and why shouldn't they publish results that would let them win even if that's not the correct result ?

One could argue that the masses would always return the correct score but imagine 50 people debating about sports, there are 50 opinions and the truth somewhere in between.

And therefore those people also called 'scouts' must be trained in order to accomplish the job.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by legolas2412 on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:55AM (#14163181)
Well, as there are comment threads on reddit and streaming websites, you just do some simple NLP.
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