Gaming Today Playbook Podcast

Jacob Pomrenke of the Black Sox Scandal Research Committee at SABR joins the Gaming Today Playbook podcast to discuss MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s curious quote on baseball’s relationship with legal sports betting.And please come see us at Gaming Today. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Bryan Schroeder, the SVP of compliance at Tipico Sportsbook joins the Gaming Today Playbook podcast to discuss the Fair Play Pledge initiative that recently received a rare accreditation from the National Council on Problem Gambling.No other US sportsbook has been certified with the iCAP."As we move into the fifth or sixth year of online sports wagering in the US, we need to have a more mature product that starts addressing responsible gaming in a kind of effective way.And that process is continually growing. So I think the first step is making sure everything's transparent to the user, easily accessible.And I think the next step is working with industry stakeholders, and that would be regulators, educational institutions to fine-tune those responsible gaming features and requirements to make sure that they are of best practice. And I think that's what Tipico is working on now. And that's all part of the Fair Play Pledge."* Bryan Schroeder, the SVP of compliance at Tipico Sportsbook This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

More than 100 million are expected to watch Super Bowl 58 on Sunday.Many of them will take in conventional broadcasts, meaning their game will have coursed as digital data packets from Allegiant Stadium, into space, bounced off satellites, been briefly slowed to check for something the Federal Communication Commission found objectionable, and then routed by cable companies to living rooms and sports bars all around the United States and beyond.The delay between the obligatory game-changing referee’s decision - hello, James Bradberry - and the beer slam or obscenity in those living rooms and sports bars could be upwards of 60 seconds.That may be good news for those few needing extra seconds for mental wellness. But it's not good for sports bettors wondering why their in-play bets failed. They never had a chance without a delay. Viewers watching on apps have a distinct advantage, but all viewers have the opportunity for the same experience, says Jed Corenthal.It's all about latency, the term for the speed with which a real-life event can be transmitted from a field of play to a living room a screen a half world away.Phenix Real Time Solutions claims to have the technology to narrow this gap to less than a human can comprehend. They just need more broadcast companies to pay for the service. If so, they'd be following multiple sports betting companies into the future, Corenthal said in an interview with Gaming Today.Check this out:https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/super-bowl-television-stream-lag-leaves-in-game-bettors-behind-action-again/And this:https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/slow-tv-signal-still-vexes-super-bowl-viewers-and-sports-bettors/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Jerad Finck, former med student, coder, digital rights management expert, Billboard-charting singer-songwriter, and a Web3 and spatial web entrepreneur joins the Gaming Today Playbook Podcast to share how Cosmic Wire could help change the future of security and interaction online, not only in the gambling industry, but all industries.Finck goes deep into tech world in this podcast, so here are some terms that might be new to you.DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyKYCKYBAML: Know your customer, know your business, anti-money-laundering.NGO: Non-governmental organization.PSN: PlayStation Network.Solana: A blockchain platform designed to host decentralized platforms.SAP: System Analysis ProgramSPL: A cryptocurrency generated by Solana.Zero-trust environment: DefinitionMore from Brant JamesMore from Gaming TodayCall 1-800-GAMBLER if you have a gambling problem. 21+: All content herein is intended for audiences 21+. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Artificial intelligence will greatly broaden its role in sports betting as soon as Super Bowl LVIII, according to Microsoft director of sports Jon Flynn.Casual bettors using language models like ChatGPT and sharps enhancing their algorithms with AI will affect wagering like never before, Flynn told the Gaming Today Playbook podcast.It was all a matter of time. But Flynn believes the time comes on Feb. 11."We're going to see the rise of the casual gambler that is informed only by AI," Flynn said. "I think one of the litmus tests is, I think the Super Bowl this year, we're going to see a rise in the casual bettor who's using AI, specifically ChatGPT from OpenAI or Bard from Google or Gemini or Llama from the Meta open source version into informing who and how they bet. I think that's going to be a great step for us to look at."Read more at Gaming Today This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Pro League Network founders Bill Yucatonis and Mike Salvaris join Gaming Today senior writer Brant James to explain their vision for creating, broadcasting, and gamifying the next generation of non-traditional sports.HEADS-UP: Salvaris has an Australian accent.What you’ll learn in just a half-hour:* The three new words Yucatonis and Salvaris created* How you convince a sportsbook to put up odds on people slapping each other* How horse racing was inspirational* What’s it like in their Branson, Mo., lab?* And what the hell carrom is all about. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Megan Lanham, the co-founder and CEO of Boston-based sports betting predictive model subscription service Rithmm on how her artificial intelligence is the sharpest. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Mike Talas, the director of charting at FTN Data, explains how he and his 'charters' collect the granular NFL data that makes smarter daily fantasy players and sports bettors. They spend hours re-watching video, inputting it into Google Sheets and churning it out in two days. Then they do it again. And again.Patronize www.gamingtoday.comREAD THE STORY HERE ...https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/nfl-statistics-fantasy-betting-dfs-collect/https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/author/brant-james/https://www.gamingtoday.com/odds/super-bowl-mvp/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Idan Ravin’s unorthodox training methods have revealed the best in some of the NBA’s greatest players. LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are among his long list of clients. He just had to throw enough tennis balls at them to cultivate what was already there.Imprinting the playing style of a Hall of Famer on an actor well enough to make it believable was another matter. Ravin took on the challenge when “Winning Time” executive producer Adam McKay called for help turning, among many, Quincy Isaiah into Magic Johnson, Solomon Hughes into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Sean Patrick Small into Larry Bird.With the HBO series’ second season set to debut on Sunday, Aug. 6, Gaming Today spoke with Ravin, the show’s basketball producer, about making “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” real.Read the Gaming Today story here: https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/winning-time-superstar-trainer-idan-ravin-magic-bird-kareem-actors-hbo/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com

Gaming Today's Brant James and Brandon Kravitz of 96.9 FM The Game in Orlando discuss that one red-hot month of legal sports betting in Florida in 2021 and what could be again with a recent federal court decision.GO READ THE STORy! https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/orlando-sports-radio-host-brandon-kravitz-on-florida-sports-betting-unofficial-hard-rock-gig/https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/author/brant-james/https://www.gamingtoday.com/florida/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gamingtoday.substack.com