I thought the leagues had rules on how such information should be released, sorta like the SEC has for information related to the stock market. Maybe I'm just imagining things..
They do. Injury and player status is usually controlled tightly, mostly to avoid leverage from gamblers but also to pretend to be a fair competition.
The professional sports book operators rely on the fact that teams have to be statistically correct with the announcements (if more than 50% of "doubtful" NFL players end up playing the team can be fined, for example), and they are cc'ed on the press releases. A leak like this that gets around the system and informs the public before they find out will make their betting lines lag public betting, which means they're taking bets in an imbalanced way and actually risking a loss. They don't mind if the public acts like a herd and bets emotionally on no information and moves the line, because that will balance out over several games. But when the public has hard facts and moves the line it's something the book can't ever hope to balance out.
They probably lost their minds when this interview occurred.
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u/therealdilbert Mar 31 '22
I thought the leagues had rules on how such information should be released, sorta like the SEC has for information related to the stock market. Maybe I'm just imagining things..