Darren Magee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And I remember checking myself in that moment and thinking, wow, this is indicative of how technology, how the availability and aggregation of data alters fan vocabulary.
It locks fans into a relationship with live, immersive, kind of dramatic sport.
It overlays that with, in essence, the rhythms and reward mechanisms of a casino.
They could even be in the stadium watching the game while also logged into a gambling app with hundreds of opportunities to bet in real time.
And there's a real sense that for a new generation of fans,
in-play betting becomes this default accompaniment to consuming the game.
And of course, this amplifies and adds a sense of jeopardy to every single action of every single game in a way that undoubtedly alters what fandom is.
And a lot of fans, of course, end up being somewhat denatured to the normal rhythms of fandom in the sense that every single aspect of every game is suddenly a new opportunity for a bet.
they're able to kind of crunch the numbers in real time and I guess have them clean to a point where they can use very sophisticated predictive modeling on every aspect of every game and indeed every market they're offering to fans and how those markets are priced in the moment.
The discrepancy between what the old school bookmaker had and what the fan has at their disposal has grown.
The chasm has grown further and further.
And of course, they also have this kind of understanding of fan interaction and their behavioral patterns.
I've had so many fans tell me over the years that I can't imagine walking into a betting shop and placing, you know, five, let alone 10, 20, 50 bets in a short period of time.
But I don't think twice about doing it on my smartphone.
He becomes this so many ways symbolic of the blurring of the lines between sport and gambling over the last two decades, but also the pioneering use of data there and kind of the blurring of the lines between the data brokerage firms, gambling and sport today.
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