Have You Ever Rooted FOR an Injury/Benching Because of Your Bet?

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Dark confession time. And I mean genuinely dark.

Two seasons ago I had a significant bet on a team to cover. Their star receiver was listed as questionable all week. I spent Thursday and Friday genuinely hoping he wouldn't play.

He got ruled out Saturday morning. My first feeling wasn't sympathy. It was relief.

A professional athlete I've never met, who works his entire life to play football, didn't play. And I felt good about it.

I'm not proud of that. But it happened.

Has anyone else been there? And where's the actual moral line between "I hope this player has a quiet game" and "I hope this player gets hurt"?
 
yeah... more times than i want to admit...

had a bet on the under once and a player went down in the second half... game slowed right down... i was relieved... genuinely relieved a person was injured...

felt sick about it after... but in the moment... relief...

thats one of the things that made me think i had a problem... when your first reaction to someone getting hurt is checking the scoreline...
 
Rooted for a benching yes.

Actual injury...

Want to say no.

But there was a match where Wales were covering and the opposition fly-half went off hurt early.

I didn't WANT him hurt.

But when he went off I thought "right that helps."

Is that the same thing?

Don't know.

Feels like it might be.
 
I've hoped for benchings. Definitely.

Injury is different in my head - I tell myself I'd never hope for an actual injury.

But Fade's question is the right one. Where's the line exactly?

If a player is "day to day" with a hamstring issue and I have a bet that benefits from him sitting out... am I hoping he's healthy enough to play or am I hoping he's not?

Honest answer: I'm hoping he's not. And that's uncomfortable to admit.
 
Oh no.

Okay I have to be honest.

I had Mahomes in a prop bet once and another time I had the under in a Chiefs game.

Those two feelings are completely different.

With the prop I'm like "please be amazing Patrick!!"

With the under I'm like "please just... manage the game."

I've never hoped he got HURT. That would horrify me.

But hoping he plays badly? Yeah I've done that.

Is that terrible?
 
This is the thread that separates the honest bettors from the ones performing honesty.

I'm a coach. I've watched kids get hurt on the field. I know what injuries mean. The pain, the rehab, the psychological toll.

And yes. I've had bets where I noticed a star player was limping and felt... not bad about it.

I hate that about myself. But it happened.
 
Have hoped for benchings based on tactical reasoning.

"This player's absence benefits my model" is how I frame it internally.

Clinical framing doesn't change the underlying wish.

If the player gets injured to produce that absence: I have benefited from harm.

Whether I actively wished for the harm is perhaps a distinction without moral difference.
 
Yes. Routinely.

Not injury specifically. But absence by any means.

Suspension, illness, coach decision, personal reasons.

Any absence that improves my position. I've wanted all of them.

Injury is just one mechanism. The wish is the same regardless of mechanism.
 
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