Sportradar Integrity Services signs deal with WBSC

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has signed a two-year deal with Sportradar Integrity Services

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has signed a two-year deal with Sportradar Integrity Services.

The understanding testament assure Sportradar cater its Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) to from each one WBSC international rivalry for the continuance of the contract.

The UFDS is a bet monitoring system that analyses betting patterns sounding for abnormalities; if any are found, they are reported to partners, allowing decisive visibleness into world-wide match-fixing.

The system has been severally assessed and verified by experts inward the field of operations of sports betting and integrity.

Sportradar Integrity Services have got detected to a greater extent than 6,900 suspicious games crosswise different sports during the past 17 years; 900 of those took place inward 2021 alone.

WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari commented on the deal: "We're sounding send on to benefiting from Sportradar's expertise in providing bet monitoring and intelligence agency solutions for conquer detective work and investigation of threats to sports integrity, maintaining baseball and softball’s gritty unpredictability and safeguarding the international spunky from manipulation.

“Following the IOC’s and specifically the Olympic Movement Unit on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competition’s leading inward the bar of competition manipulation, we are working towards enhancing the shelter of plumb baseball and softball athletes with this unexampled agreement.”

Sportradar is a supplier of sports wholeness solutions and a partner to o'er 100 sports federations and leagues.

The WBSC Integrity Unit, in collaboration with the IOC Olympic Movement Unit on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competition, has latterly organised a two-part series of webinars virtually use inwards competitions.