Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks
Philip Ramirez, J. James Reade, Carl Singleton · International Journal of Forecasting
Main finding
Reported that attention-related signals were associated with mispricing and profitable strategies; later corrected by Clegg & Cartlidge.
Limitations
Its headline profitability was not robust to the data correction described by Clegg & Cartlidge.
Study details
- Authors
- Philip Ramirez, J. James Reade, Carl Singleton
- Published
- 2023
- Venue
- International Journal of Forecasting 39(3), 1413–1423
- Status
- Published
- Evidence type
- Peer-reviewed empirical
- Evidence strength
- Limited (our assessment of how much weight the finding can bear)
- Sport
- Tennis
- Markets
- Online bookmaker match odds
- Method
- Tests whether online attention (Wikipedia page views) predicts mispricing in tennis betting markets.
- Sample
- More than ten thousand professional tennis matches.
- Replication
- Corrected by Clegg & Cartlidge (2025).
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doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.07.011 (opens in a new tab)
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