Brendan Dwyer

You should be enjoying the moment and the opportunity together to

watch your team play and talk about what is occurring.

So that's one aspect.

And then, yeah, I do think we are seeing our athletes as more of a chess piece or a machine to achieve a goal as opposed to a player on a team and that team is trying to achieve a common goal.

So yeah, as a former coach and person who loves sports, I think it does take away from something that sports was not meant to be.

Well, I guess I could start out by saying pretty much any sports fan thinks they know more about sports than everyone else.

So I think, you know, especially when you talk about 18 to 24 year old males, they have a built in level of confidence all about a lot of things, but in particular about sports.

It is also at a time in their life where for a lot of them, money is important to them and they oftentimes do not have a lot of it.

From what we found in our research, they see betting as an opportunity to make money.

And it's that combination of overconfidence and impulsivity of younger individuals that is troublesome.

It's really more evident in younger people than older people.

And older people, we found in our research, are more rigid, which also comes with challenges.

in terms of changing their perceptions and their behaviors towards betting.

But I think majority of sports bettors are very responsible bettors.

I think they're irrational.

But I think in terms of the amount of money they spend, they have it under control for the most part.

But the younger individuals' overconfidence and impulsivity, if their belief in sports betting is an opportunity to make money, is really a challenge.

No, I think they enjoy the risk.

Another study we have conducted found that risk plays no role in their decision to gamble.

If they know it's more risky, that's not going to make any impact on their decision.