Jacob Pomrenke of the Black Sox Scandal Research Committee at SABR joins the Gaming Today Playbook podcast to discuss MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s curious quote on baseball’s relationship with legal sports betting. And please come see us at Gaming Today. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com...
Bryan Schroeder, the SVP of compliance at Tipico Sportsbook joins the Gaming Today Playbook podcast to discuss the Fair Play Pledge initiative that recently received a rare accreditation from the National Council on Problem Gambling. No other US sportsbook has been certified with the iCAP . "As we move into the fifth or sixth year of online sports wagering in the US, we need to have a more mature product that starts addressing responsible gaming in a kind of effective way. And that process is co...
More than 100 million are expected to watch Super Bowl 58 on Sunday. Many of them will take in conventional broadcasts, meaning their game will have coursed as digital data packets from Allegiant Stadium, into space, bounced off satellites, been briefly slowed to check for something the Federal Communication Commission found objectionable, and then routed by cable companies to living rooms and sports bars all around the United States and beyond. The delay between the obligatory game-changing ref...
Jerad Finck , former med student, coder, digital rights management expert, Billboard-charting singer-songwriter, and a Web3 and spatial web entrepreneur joins the Gaming Today Playbook Podcast to share how Cosmic Wire could help change the future of security and interaction online, not only in the gambling industry, but all industries. Finck goes deep into tech world in this podcast, so here are some terms that might be new to you. DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency KYCKYBAML: Know...
Artificial intelligence will greatly broaden its role in sports betting as soon as Super Bowl LVIII, according to Microsoft director of sports Jon Flynn. Casual bettors using language models like ChatGPT and sharps enhancing their algorithms with AI will affect wagering like never before, Flynn told the Gaming Today Playbook podcast. It was all a matter of time. But Flynn believes the time comes on Feb. 11. "We're going to see the rise of the casual gambler that is informed only by AI," Flynn sa...
Pro League Network founders Bill Yucatonis and Mike Salvaris join Gaming Today senior writer Brant James to explain their vision for creating, broadcasting, and gamifying the next generation of non-traditional sports. HEADS-UP: Salvaris has an Australian accent. What you’ll learn in just a half-hour: * The three new words Yucatonis and Salvaris created * How you convince a sportsbook to put up odds on people slapping each other * How horse racing was inspirational * What’s it like in their Brans...
Megan Lanham, the co-founder and CEO of Boston-based sports betting predictive model subscription service Rithmm on how her artificial intelligence is the sharpest. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com
Mike Talas, the director of charting at FTN Data, explains how he and his 'charters' collect the granular NFL data that makes smarter daily fantasy players and sports bettors. They spend hours re-watching video, inputting it into Google Sheets and churning it out in two days. Then they do it again. And again. Patronize www.gamingtoday.com READ THE STORY HERE ... https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/nfl-statistics-fantasy-betting-dfs-collect/ https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/author/brant-james/ https...
Idan Ravin’s unorthodox training methods have revealed the best in some of the NBA’s greatest players. LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are among his long list of clients. He just had to throw enough tennis balls at them to cultivate what was already there. Imprinting the playing style of a Hall of Famer on an actor well enough to make it believable was another matter. Ravin took on the challenge when “Winning Time” executive producer Adam McKay called for help turning, among many, Quincy Isaiah int...
Gaming Today's Brant James and Brandon Kravitz of 96.9 FM The Game in Orlando discuss that one red-hot month of legal sports betting in Florida in 2021 and what could be again with a recent federal court decision. GO READ THE STORy! https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/orlando-sports-radio-host-brandon-kravitz-on-florida-sports-betting-unofficial-hard-rock-gig/ https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/author/brant-james/ https://www.gamingtoday.com/florida/ This is a public episode. If you would like to dis...
