TaffyTipster
Market Sharp
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2022
- Messages
- 521
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- Points
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Champions League. Two seasons ago. Last sixteen.
My team scores. I'm celebrating. The goal graphic goes up on my betting app showing the score has changed. My live bet position updates favorably.
Four minutes later: VAR overturns the goal. Offside. Laser line measurement. Three millimetres.
The app corrects. My position goes back to where it was.
The four minutes between goal and overturning were a specific kind of horrible that didn't exist before VAR.
Not the loss of the goal. I can handle that.
The four minutes of having won something and then having it removed.
The experience of winning and losing the same event twice in five minutes.
The rugby equivalent is the TMO. Similar idea. But rugby TMO decisions are usually faster and the sport had longer to adapt to the technology.
Football VAR has produced a specific and genuinely novel form of betting experience that I think has changed the live product permanently and nobody has fully reckoned with it.
My team scores. I'm celebrating. The goal graphic goes up on my betting app showing the score has changed. My live bet position updates favorably.
Four minutes later: VAR overturns the goal. Offside. Laser line measurement. Three millimetres.
The app corrects. My position goes back to where it was.
The four minutes between goal and overturning were a specific kind of horrible that didn't exist before VAR.
Not the loss of the goal. I can handle that.
The four minutes of having won something and then having it removed.
The experience of winning and losing the same event twice in five minutes.
The rugby equivalent is the TMO. Similar idea. But rugby TMO decisions are usually faster and the sport had longer to adapt to the technology.
Football VAR has produced a specific and genuinely novel form of betting experience that I think has changed the live product permanently and nobody has fully reckoned with it.
