BETER, a provider of fast sports and esports content for sportsbook operators, has struck a new deal with esports data specialist Bayes Esports. Described by BETER as a ‘landmark deal’, it provides significant impetus to the growth of its esports department while allowing the company to supply odds with ‘pin-point’ accuracy. Bayes Esports will supply real-time data for popular esports …
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Darina Goldin, Director of Data Science at Bayes Esports, takes a look at seasonal trends within the esports industry and why she learnt to embrace the chaos that comes with trying to forecast esports events in 2021. If something is seasonal, it means that it fluctuates within a calendar year in a predictable fashion. This is true for shopping, the …
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Bayes Esports has both extended and expanded its current partnership with ESL Gaming with the aim of ‘driving esports forward’. With the current partnership already covering games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, the revamped deal will span more esports titles from ESL Gaming’s portfolio. In addition, Bayes noted that the collaboration will also become refined with …
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Technology, data visualisation and partnerships are three key areas that Bayes Esports plans to focus on in 2021, as Amir Mirzaee (pictured) – Chief Operating Officer – plans to establish the company’s position as a leader in the esports space. In conversation with SBC News, Mirzaee – who joined Bayes Esports in July 2020 – reflected on some of the new …
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Esports has been a big topic of conversation in recent years, but what actually is it? For betting operators, there are basically two types of esports; hardcore video game competition such as CSGO, Dota, League of Legends etc. And sport replacement, or so called crisis content, which includes FIFA, NBA2k, and Ice Hockey. Prior to the COVID pandemic, sport replacement …
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Bayes Esports will carry out a generational change to its software and a complete overhaul of the odds system in 2021, says co-founder Jens Hilgers (pictured above), as the company looks to capitalise on the huge growth of the esports betting market. A leading esports data provider, Bayes – like so many others in the sector – has seen demand …
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2020 has been the year of esports. As fewer and fewer sports events could take place due to COVID-19 in 2020, esports matches continued to be played online. The betting industry has caught up. Where esports used to be a side note before, there are now entire betting portals dedicated just to esports. And no traditional bookmaker will now be …
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Bayes Esports has published its second whitepaper in cooperation with Sportradar. With informative content about ‘How to maximise your esports tournament experience,’ the Berlin-based esports data company addresses tournament organisers and everyone else interested in the growing esports industry. Readers may learn: How to organise a tournament, decide the format, get data in order, monetise data optimally and what is …
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Getting an outside opinion on a particular topic can deliver interesting insights as to how an idea can be approached. And according to Bayes Esports, a leading esports data and services provider, drawing on the expertise of lateral professionals from other industries has helped bring a fresh new skillset to a sector on an upwards trajectory. We spoke to Juana …
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Alternative markets have increasingly come to the fore over the last few months as bookmakers sought to offer new betting opportunities for punters during the global pandemic. While these markets have proven popular, Matt Scarrott, Director of Sportsbook at BetVictor, stated that they will never provide the same allure as the big sports that we are used to. Speaking at …
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