Betting on the Draft with Matt McEwan
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
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🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Trysta talks to Matt McEwan about the wild swings that were witnessed yesterday, what caused them and how it all might affect the future of gambling on events as opposed to games.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Wow, what great timing. |
| 0:12.9 | Amazing timing here. |
| 0:15.1 | So, let's talk about it. |
| 0:18.3 | So first and foremost, yesterday we saw a series of unprecedented swings in the odds for |
| 0:23.1 | who would go number one in the draft. |
| 0:25.4 | In the span of eight hours, Jabari Smith went from negative 10,000, which means for every |
| 0:31.3 | dollar you bet, you get back one penny to plus 300, plus 300 which means for every dollar you bet you get back uh three dollars |
| 0:46.6 | and then it went back down again eventual number one pick palo ban caro was plus 2200 which means |
| 0:52.6 | every dollar you get back you, every dollar you bet you get |
| 0:55.4 | 22 back 10 days ago. |
| 0:57.3 | Never seen anything like this. |
| 0:59.8 | So to help us understand what all happened and how it might affect future drafts as a |
| 1:04.6 | league as a whole, please welcome Matt McEwen. |
| 1:08.8 | Matt is editor-in-chief of the sports betting dime. |
| 1:13.0 | He has been a friend of a show for a long time now. |
| 1:17.6 | He is a, also he has created their futures trackers, score predictors, and other betting models. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to the show, Matt. |
| 1:25.6 | Hey, Trista. |
| 1:26.5 | Thanks so much for having me. Yeah, thanks for coming on, man. |
| 1:29.3 | It was what a crazy time it is to be a sports betting person in the business. |
| 1:36.3 | I had people even that were, people that were newsbreakers who wanted to get my perspective in terms of how this blew up on Twitter, |
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