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College Sports Betting: More gambling doesn’t mean more point shaving

Imagine that law enforcement in a random state acquired new technology for detecting speeding on the state’s highways with exceptional precision. The state decides to implement the new system on January 1 of the coming year, shifting responsibility for monitoring speeding away from patrol officers. The switch flips on the first day of the year, and a status report one month later finds that speeding tickets issued increased significantly since the new technology was put in place.

The speeding scenario is analogous to what is currently happening in the college sports world in the context of sports betting.