Even more to it too. Once it gets big enough you start getting match fixing, so it ruins the sport and also endangers all players since fixing all but necessitates organized crime.
The final outcome is a world where someone bets on a runner up, and goes out to shoot the champion, to steal money from the addicted masses.
The same issues apply for betting on other real world things.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There’s an episode of The Shield where another team is coming to town to play the Lakers and the detectives kidnap the star player under some bullshit about a threat to his safety and keep him in a hotel until he can’t make the game. I suapect sinilar things have happened and will increase.