Abstract
The purpose of this study was to classify sports match fixing based on the scope of human network and financial involvement. We analyze the concept of match fixing as defined by the International O...
Highlights
Match fixing is at the core of players’ problematic behavior, not the only problem for players, that devalues sports
The main contribution of this paper is that it is the first to categorize match fixing based on different types, enabling the discovery of different solutions for different types of match fixing
We classified match fixing on the basis of the scope of the human network involved and whether it is motivated by a financial gain, in order to provide a foundation for systematic analysis of a practice that threatens the existence of sports
Summary
Match fixing is at the core of players’ problematic behavior, not the only problem for players, that devalues sports. Many people enjoy sports because of the uncertainty of results (Pawlowski & Anders, 2012), but if the result of a sports game is predetermined, there would be no reason for spectators to be interested in the Jae-Hyeon Park. Jae-Hyeon Park is a professor at Korea National Sport University. He is interested in sports analytics and measurement theory in sports science area. All of the authors are working at Center for Sports and Performance Analytics in KNSU. They have over 150 research papers related to health, physical education, and sports science in English and Korean. CSPA is cooperating with national teams of Korea for improving their sports performance
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