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ToolsBrown, Alasdair and Reade, J. James (2019) The wisdom of amateur crowds: Evidence from an online community of sports tipsters. European Journal of Operational Research, 272 (3). pp. 1073-1081. ISSN 0377-2217
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Abstract
We analyse the accuracy of crowd forecasts produced on Oddsportal, an online community of amateur sports tipsters. Tipsters in this community are ranked according to the betting return on their tips, but there are no prizes for accuracy. Nevertheless, we find that aggregated tips in this community contain information not in betting prices. A strategy of betting when a majority predict an outcome produces average returns of 1.317% for 68,339 events. The accuracy of these forecasts stems from the wisdom of the whole crowd, as selecting sections of the crowd based on experience or past forecast accuracy does not improve betting returns.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | or in sports,sports betting,tipsters,wisdom of crowds |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2018 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 19:32 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67529 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.07.015 |
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