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The App That Predicts Sports With 78% Accuracy

What happens when sports bettors have access to predictions that are more accurate than the sportsbooks themselves? John Hanna, co-founder of XO Sports, joins MaxBet to talk about the technology behind an app reporting externally audited prediction accuracy as high as 78%, compared with sportsbook predictions around 64–67%. And that raises a much more interesting question: what happens when the bettor gets smarter?

John and Hillary get into how a group of technologists built XO Sports to process millions of streams of data, continuously learn and improve its predictions, and put technology…

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