Integrity solutions provider Sport Integrity Monitor (SportIM) has entered into a long-term partnership with the Euroleague Basketball top-tier European club competition.
Although the length of the deal was not disclosed, it was confirmed that the new partnership will come into effect from the 2015-16 season.
Under the agreement, SportIM will assist the Euroleague in preventing match-fixing and sport-fixing across all matches under its governance.
Euroleague will gain access to the SportIM basketball monitoring system, as well as an experienced team of integrity analysts and education specialists.
The system has access to live game data from over 35,000 basketball events each year and also offers more than a decade of historic data, in addition to live and historic odds from the global betting market.
Using sophisticated algorithms, the system processes and monitors such datasets to identify anomalies in real-time.
“Thanks to reaching agreements with innovative organisations such as SportIM, we are able to use their expertise and state-of-the-art technology in order to help protect the integrity of our sport,” Euroleague Basketball chief operating officer Eduard Scott said.
“We are confident that this relationship will minimise the threat of match and spot-fixing whilst ensuring that all Euroleague Basketball games can withstand the strictest scrutiny.”
Mark Locke, chief executive of SportIM, added: “We are pleased that Euroleague has taken a proactive approach to managing integrity and are implementing measures to prevent match-fixing and corruption.
“Sadly, many sports governing bodies act reactively once issues occur and the damage is often done at this point.
“We have made significant investment in our unique basketball integrity system and we are excited to launch it in partnership with an organisation as committed to sports integrity as Euroleague.”
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