What got me interested in researching match-fixing was that I thought too many people would research concussions. After reading an article about tennis match-fixing, I saw that it was a well-known problem and found some interesting things in the first article. My research doesn't really reflect my values other than I dislike when people cheat. I really wouldn't call match-fixing cheating in the regular sense because the person that throws the event doesn't want to win in the first place or have other ulterior motives, or financial reason to not play at the best of their ability. Personally, I have not encountered anything that has to deal with match-fixing directly. Although this could have happened without me known with bogus calls in football or basketball. I am not qualified to write about this topic at the moment but by the end of the semester when I have fully researched match-fixing in all the major sports and have spent hours writing and rewriting to formulate and spectacular paper, I believe I will be well versed in match-fixing and will become somewhat of an expert in the topic.

Ben Rothenberg and James Glanz article "Match-Fixing Suspicions Raised at Australian Open After Site Stops Bets on Match" major points are how Pinnacle sports, one of the largest online betting sites discontinued bets on a mixed doubles match of Lara Arruabarrena and David Marrero against Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot. Hlavackova and Kubot had all of the best in their favor which caused some conversation about the match being fixed. The major values at stake for the article are that if there is a chance that the Australian Open has been fixed then tennis has been corrupted fully and there will need to be sanction but down in order to combat corruption and match-fixing. The authors are not bias and are credible. They are both reporters for the New York Times and it seems that their objective is to just provide an informational article about the fixing of games and how tennis has been in a dark spot for the last two decades.

David Lucy, a lecturer in statistics from Lancaster University article "Can you spot match-fixing by looking at the numbers?" takes a look at the mathematical side of match-fixing in various sports from cricket to soccer. Lucy begins by stating the various scandals since the early 2000's that have involved match-fixing and the sanctions brought down by the leagues they are organized in. The major values at stake are that it is very improbable to find a way to tell if a player has thrown the game because there are countless times where upsets occur in sports and where some players just don't show up at the right moment. Lucy says that the area in statistics where they could find out if someone threw the game on purpose is based on the nurse problem. The nurse problem says that is when a medical professional has been suspected of harming their patients instead of providing treatment.  Lucy says that it is very improbable to calculate if a nurse harmed her patients or if a player threw a game, but when you look at two calculations of if a match way deliberately lost or if it was accidently lost and then calculate the ratios of the two propositions then we can decide if the player was not playing up to his ability or if the player lost on purpose. David Lucy hold credibility because he is a lecturer and professor of statistics at Lancaster University and knows probability and likely outcomes of various things in daily life.

Linton Besser, Justin Stevens and Joel Tozer collaboration "Tennis Match-fixing" tells the long story of match-fixing in tennis from the early 2000's to the present era. The latter half of the article focuses September to November of 2015 and how there were countless fixed matches in the game of tennis around the globe. Their confidential informant is a European bookkeeper that has over 350 names of tennis players around the globe that are known to not always play to the best of their ability or have been known to throw matches. The values of the article and the major interests at stake are that it has been a problem in the tennis community of match-fixing and how it has been an ever increasing problem. The credibility of the authors are unknown because they are not tennis players or watchers, they are just reporters for ABC News. There is a clear bias against those that throw games as being players of no moral value and anchors to the sport.

My research question is arguable to a certain extent, I believe you could argue on many ways you could abolish match-fixing and how to identify it also. Between the sources I have found they all believe that there isn't really one way to figure out if a player is intentionally throwing a game or if he is just having an off day. One things that all my sources do agree on is that there is match-fixing in tennis, soccer and cricket. It has become a huge problem in the competitive conferences and needs to be abolished to keep the integrity of the sport. The sources really don't impact my preferences because I have never knowingly encountered match-fixing and have never been a part of it. I need to revise my research question to formulate something that is a little more specific and might have an answer to it than just talking about how we can rid it from sports altogether. Also, I will need to focus on one sport so I can find an answer that best fixes the problems in that sport because what might work for one might not for the other.

