Today in Sofia, the Bulgarian Basketball Federation announced its partnership with Sportradar Security Services.
Under the terms of the partnership, Sportradar’s award-winning Fraud Detection System will monitor all the regular season and play-off matches for the 2016/17 Men’s National Basketball League, as well as the matches of the Women’s 2016/17 Championship. Altogether, the FDS will monitor pre-match and live betting across over 450 betting operators for over 240 matches this season.
Bulgarian Basketball Federation President Georgi Glushkov emphasized: “Our partnership with Sportradar means that we are sending a clear message. That message is: ‘Bulgarian basketball values the fair play and wants to develop according to the sport’s principles “We want matchfixers to fear us. We want them to understand that Bulgaria is dedicated to clean basketball where the talent and abilities of the players and coaches win in a fair game”
Sportradar Security Services Managing Director Andreas Krannich added: “It was two years ago that we developed and launched the first version of basketball’s Fraud Detection System, completely attuned to the realities of this unique sport and its global betting markets. We have worked with a range of basketball’s federations, from the international, through to the national. We appreciate this vote of confidence from the Bulgarian Federation and the brave way they protect the integrity of both their men’s and women’s competition. We will work with them over the coming months to safeguard this exciting sport”.
ABOUT THE BULGARIAN BASKETBALL FEDERATION
The Bulgarian Basketball Federation is the national governing body for basketball in Bulgaria.
For more information about the Bulgarian Basketball Federation, please visit: http://www.basketball.bg/
ABOUT SPORTRADAR
Sportradar is a global leader in understanding and leveraging the power of sports data and digital content for its clients around the world.
The company’s Security Services operation provides the Fraud Detection System (FDS) to several federations, including the AFC, CONCACAF and UEFA. This unique system allows the Security Services team to monitor betting behaviour and patterns worldwide and to identify suspicious activities. Those findings prove invaluable for sports federations and law enforcement agencies that are looking to pinpoint match-fixers. The Security Services also include the Fraud Prevention Service (FPS) through which Sportradar offers education tools and services that have been delivered to leagues and clubs around the world. These have been show to increase awareness of illegal betting and match-fixing among those involved in sport.
More than 600 businesses in over 80 countries rely on Sportradar’s data depth and quality services in their daily business. Headquartered in Switzerland, Sportradar has offices in 30 other cities and employs over 1,300 highly experienced staff worldwide.
For more information about Sportradar, please visit: www.sportradar.com.
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Alex Inglot
Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Sportradar AG
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