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CombatWombat@feddit.online Joined: 2025-09-09

With its credibility swaying in the wake of a betting scandal, the very last thing the league needed was to be in business with a prediction platform

CombatWombat@feddit.online Joined: 2025-09-09

It’s not great!

The investigation was triggered in October 2025, whereupon the players were immediately placed on administrative leave. Which is also to say that the league was entirely aware of its vulnerability to manipulation before it went public with Polymarket, with an ongoing case of suspected match-fixing to deal with.

At a minimum, MLS must have understood that the optics of revealing a new deal with a prediction market would be very poor.

It proceeded anyway.

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