The Role of Technology in Modern Sports Wagering

The late nineties saw a huge shift in sports wagering from customers getting on their phone to their bookie or walking into bricks-and-mortar shops, to doing things online.

 All customers needed was access to a laptop or desktop and an internet connection and fast forward a few years, access to a smartphone, making it even easier. In fact, these days most customers at the best betting sites actually prefer to do such things as deposit, withdraw, place bets and claim bonuses straight from their phones, rather than using a computer.

Payment Options – Quicker, safer

It’s not unusual to find at least 10 or 15 different payment options at any given Sportsbook including such ones as debit cards, e-wallets and even cryptocurrencies.

 These days deposits are normally instant (depending on the method) while withdrawals are much quicker than they used to be, with most methods taking just 1 to 3 hours for you to receive your money. 

Technological features such as face recognition and Touch IDs make transactions faster and safer than ever before.

More sports, more games, more markets

Offering 30+ different sports and 1000s of matches every year on those sports is pretty much the norm now.

 One of the reasons for that is to do with how much quicker bookmakers can collect and crunch data these days, thanks to technology.

 Entering lots of stats, results and data points into computer programs using algorithms means they can price up far more markets than before and much quicker than before, which is why there are so many more events to bet on.

In-game live Content

Live betting has gone through the roof these last few years in terms of the drastically
increased availability of it (see above). 

But there’s also far more live content to help you with your betting decisions. Bookies have seen the value of providing free live streaming on such sports as horse racing, football, tennis and many more so punters can watch events in real time with high quality pictures while they bet live on the event. 

Other than livestreaming, advancements in tech have led to far more detailed real-time stats or graphic demonstrations of what’s happening in the event, also to help live betting customers with their choices.

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Virtual sports

If there isn’t any live sport on for whatever reason or you just fancy this instead, virtual
sports allow punters to bet on such sports as football, basketball or horse racing.

 Virtual sports sort of work like video games being played by robots. The game is played out in front of you based on algorithms like those used in slot machines and you bet on what might happen, at fixed odds, like you were betting on a real football game or tennis match. 

The big advantage is that they’re available to bet on 24/7.

Bet Builders

Up until a few years ago, it wasn’t possible to place complex accumulator bets around the same event, such as a football match. You could bet on a team to win and for there to be three or more goals in it but not much more sophisticated bets than that. The reason was that it was very difficult to work out the odds on events that were connected. Such as a particular player scoring a goal, that player’s team winning and the number of goals in the match. 

But advances in the technology that allows bookmakers to set odds, means they now allow punters to place accas with as many as 8 or 10 selections in them around connected events, in the same match. These same-game accas are known as Bet Builders and have become incredibly popular over the last few years.