July 30, 2007
Henry Abbott over at Truehoop digs up Jonathan Gibbs, the author of an undergraudate economics thesis about point shaving, and interviews him about the results. My first reaction to the synopsis at TrueHoop was to wonder about players getting bored at the end of the game or just not wanting to run up the score, but Gibbs gives a good explanation of how this would interact with the spread.
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