Courtsiding Cheaters?

[maycontainnuts]

Tennis arrest at company set up by former Betfair staff

Sporting Data, the company embroiled in the "courtsiding" affair at the Australian Open tennis tournament, used the betting exchange to make its wagers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... staff.html

[maycontainnuts]

Should this concern us? If Betfair don't use our trading data then it seems that former employee could hunt out the best traders and learn what they are doing?

[PeterLe]

THE first person charged with Victoria's "courtsiding" offence is one of six people who travel to tennis tournaments the world over to send live score updates to a British betting agency, a court has heard.

Now that's not a bad job!

[Euler]

Over the years there have been quite a few people doing this. A little cottage industry sprung up.

Have a read of 'The newtonian Casino' where some people used physics and a hidden computer to predict where a ball would drop on roulette. A good read.

[PeterLe]

Over the years there have been quite a few people doing this. A little cottage industry sprung up.

Have a read of 'The newtonian Casino' where some people used physics and a hidden computer to predict where a ball would drop on roulette. A good read.

(there you go LinusP - Get your CV into SportingData!)

I'll check that book out (sounds like the film 21)..?

[LinusP]

Over the years there have been quite a few people doing this. A little cottage industry sprung up.

Have a read of 'The newtonian Casino' where some people used physics and a hidden computer to predict where a ball would drop on roulette. A good read.

(there you go LinusP - Get your CV into SportingData!)

I'll check that book out (sounds like the film 21)..?

[maycontainnuts]

Tennis-'Courtsiders' court controversy at Australian Open

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/2 ... NZ20140122

[maycontainnuts]

Sporting Data Ltd CEO Steven High

https://soundcloud.com/774-abc-melbourn ... ceo-steven

[EyePeaSea]

Does this mean I am mistaken or that people just don't care anymore?

If you're talking about the act of taking advatange of no delay, by being courtside, then I don't think you're mistaken, but I do think that it is just your opinion that this is cheating.
Where there are rules in any part of life, some people will push, manipulate or just crash through them. In sport, Formula 1 springs to mind as the best example.
Surely the 'fix' for court side trading is to remove the delay - so it's an even playing field. I'm not sure if the delay is technical, logistical or something else. But that has to be the fix, not expecting everything to play nicely with exactly the same interpretation of rules.

Oh - and throwing beach balls onto court, or any other form of manipulation of the contestants is clearly a different thing!

[Archangel]

The people complaining about this the most would be the first ones to take advantage if they had one
If its not against the rules, how is it cheating ?

[Euler]

Inside the Shadowy World of High-Speed Tennis Betting

Interesting article: -

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ins ... s-betting/

[PeterLe]

Good article - thanks for posting

[gazuty]

Latest article on court siding / pitch siding in Australia.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/how ... 2cz2p.html