Calling the world cup goals 5 seconds before they happen on TV
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For a moment I thought someone tried predict goals based on gameplay information, and be able to forecast goals with a certain confidence - but I suppose the game moves too quickly and player performance is too inconsistent for this to ever work.
Do TV station around the world gets the 5 seconds buffer delay as well? After all it will have another processing time once they add their own languages features and commentary into it.
I'm in a Telegram channel with some friends and we casually discuss the matches.. but sometimes there have been goals I've gone crazy about and others are like "what goal?" then they see it 30 seconds-1 minute later.
I also tried listening to BBC Radio 5 commentary alongside matches shown on ITV and had to pause the TV by about 20 seconds.
Either he works for a betting company or his TV provider was a second ahead of mine!
As they say, pics or GTFO.
The problem is that betting companies do not want people to rapidly place/cancel bets just after a goal or otherwise major events.
So how does that stop someone from placing or cancelling bets from a mobile device from inside the stadium? They could certainly evade any kind of artificial delay, in fact they would benefit from it.
Wouldn't the betting agencies have the exact time of the goal down to the millisecond and cancel any post-event action?
We don't have information at a millisecond level. Most sports data is supplied by people watching the game in a room, or using a bespoke mobile app at the event.
It's a wonder Hawkeye type data hasn't been integrated but as far as I know it hasn't yet.