Pools, Parlays, and Point Spreads: A Sociological Consideration of the Legalization of Sports Gambling

Smith, Garry J.

doi:10.1123/ssj.7.3.271

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“…From a sociological perspective, these legal debates about daily fantasy hinged on (a) how much control the individual participant had in making choices or taking actions that might lead to certain outcomes (winning or losing money, for example) and (b) how the governance structures protected or should protect those with limited agency. Whereas previous studies on DFS and gambling examined sports gambling-related social risk (Frey, 1991; Smith, 1990), motivations (Curry & Jiobu, 1995), identity formations and politics (Davis & Duncan, 2006), market activity (Lopez-Gonzalez et al, 2017; Lopez-Gonzalez & Griffiths, 2018), and negative social outcomes (Martin & Nelson, 2014), this case provides an important opportunity to extend analyses of the interactions between state and individual actors. It provides a unique case to rethink and reconceptualize broader social, political, and juridical definitions of human agency within sporting contexts.…”

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Agency on Trial in Daily Fantasy Sport

McLeod

Holden

Newman

2019

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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The New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against DraftKings and FanDuel in 2015 accusing them of operating illegal gambling platforms. Using actor–network theory, we show how DraftKings, FanDuel, the New York Attorney General, critics, and legislators were preoccupied with how much agency players possessed. They also understood agency as emerging from a sociomaterial arrangement of human and nonhuman entities and saw how agency could be enhanced or limited by introducing new rules, technologies, and constraints. We compare this perspective on agency with theories typically used in sociology of sport and we consider how sociologists can intervene in sport agency.

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Section: Daily Fantasy Sports (Dfs)mentioning

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Agency on Trial in Daily Fantasy Sport

McLeod

Holden

Newman

2019

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…Sports gambling refers to games of predicting and betting on results of domestic and overseas sports league matches, such as soccer, basketball, baseball, and golf, which are popular among the public, where payment is awarded to the people who correctly predict the results [9]. Owing to the internet and the advantages of smart devices, online sports gambling offers the advantage of anonymity and not having to be present at the place of betting.…”

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Irrational Beliefs and Social Adaptation of Online Sports Gamblers According to Addiction Level: A Comparative Study

2018

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences in psychological characteristics (i.e., irrational beliefs) and social adaptation according to a participant’s level of addiction to online sports gambling (i.e., non-problem, low-risk, moderate-risk, and high-risk gamblers). A survey was completed by participants of online sports gambling, aged 19 years or older; 291 completed questionnaires were obtained and analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). As results of this study, according to the level of addiction to online sports gambling, there were significant differences on people’s mental state and social adaptation. Specifically, the more people are attached to a group that is exposed to high gambling addiction risk, the more they tend to become irrational while gambling, adopt an overconfident viewpoint, and overestimate their techniques. Moreover, as addiction to online sports gambling worsens, adaptation problems begin to appear in their work and family lives. This study demonstrated that people who are addicted to online sports gambling tend to find difficulties in thinking reasonably and logically and struggle to lead normal lives. By raising awareness on online sports gambling addiction, this study could suggest a way out of the difficulty.

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“…In Great Britain, sports gambling is legal and the government simply attempts to mitigate any social harms that result. Since legalization there, expenditures on all forms of gam-bling have declined sharply and the evidence suggests that citizens have generally gambled responsibly (Smith, 1990). There is no reason to expect the citizens of the United States to respond differently if they were given the same freedom of choice.…”

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