How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games

Re:How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games by everdev on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:36AM (#19214794)

> Donaghy's track record of making calls that favored his bet was 23-3-4

They know which games he bet on and which games he officiated, so they can track his calls in games where he had a vested interest in affecting the outcome.

> The odds that Tim Donaghy would have randomly made calls that produced that imbalance are 6,155-to-1.

Basically, there's no way an unbiased ref could generate such an accurate prediction of the winner.

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Re:How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games by mruts on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:21AM (#19215628)

Those odds aren’t really that bad. Many poker hands have worse odds but no one is particularly amazed when they get them.

That being said, it does seem a little sketchy.

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Re:How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games by bryanrasmussen on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:24AM (#19216065)

how many millions of poker hands have been played though?

now how many thousands of basketball games?

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