Online Sports Betting – World Series Ratings Hit All-Time Low. The shoe you heard drop in online sports betting was the TV ratings for the World Series. The series between the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants was the lowest rated ever. It averaged an 8.4 rating and 14 shares. It didn’t get a lot of action in offshore sports betting either but that is not a huge surprise as baseball continues to drop in popularity.
Ratings Down 28 Percent
The rating was actually the same as the one that the Phillies and Rays got two years ago in the World Series but this one is really lower if you consider that the Phillies and Rays had problems with their series due to rain. The Giants and Rangers just were not popular teams to watch. The ratings were down 28 percent from the 11.7 rating that the Yankees and Phillies got last season. Game 5 in which the Giants won by a score of 3-1 in online sports betting, got an 8.8 rating.
Changes Coming
Baseball is going to be making changes to their playoff system in the future. It may not happen next year but it will happen by 2012. The ratings and popularity of baseball continue to tumble so changes have to be made. You can look for baseball to add at least one more Wild Card in each league and to expand the playoffs. The divisional series is going to be a best-of-seven instead of a best-of-five. Baseball knows that the ratings are going downhill so they need to increase interest by adding more playoff teams.
They also need to add more games so that their revenues go up. If they go to a longer series in the divisional round it would mean more games and more money. That is something that they will have to do and the plans are already in the works. One thing you won’t see is a reduction in the regular season schedule so look for the same amount of regular season games in offshore sports betting at Sbg global. The teams can’t afford to lose any of their gate revenue so the 162 game schedules will remain. It is just the playoff schedule that will be adjusted with more games in baseball’s future.