mumbai sportradar integrity services a unit of sportradar nasdaq srad and a global supplier of sports integrity solutions on thursday issued its second annual report betting corruption and matchfixing in 2022 revealing that the company identified 1212 suspicious matches in total in 2022 within 12 sports and in 92 countries from the 850000 matches the company now monitors across 70 sports globallywhile reflecting an increase of 34 from 2021 the total number of suspicious matches indicates that matchfixing occurs at a low percentage within global sport overall the data confirms that 995 of sporting events are free from matchfixing with no single sport having a suspicious match ratio greater than 1advancements in sportradars artificial intelligence ai integrated with the universal fraud detection system ufds has helped to detect 438 of these matches the application of this technology in the system has increased the amount of data points processed for every single match the company monitors to 500 including odds turnover and statistical data related to the game state this processing is happening continuously through the life cycle of a matchs betting markets from the moment it is first offered to the moment it ends annually this equates to analysing 30 billion odds changes from 600 betting operatorsai also analyses accountlevel betting data to help confirm otherwise undetectable microlevel suspicious betting activity the model is periodically retrained on the latest data to ensure it can evolve and detect new methods of matchfixing when all markets are settled the model computes a prediction as to whether the match is potentially suspicious or not providing our expert analysts with all the necessary information required to make an informed decisionin addition to advances in technology in 2022 the number of criminal and sporting sanctions the company supported its partners with also increased from 72 to 169 up 135 from 2021 reflecting a focus by leagues and federations to address the threat that matchfixing presents to the integrity of sport using sportradar integrity services findings as evidence sanctions were imposed by sport federations or criminal courts on those deemed guilty of cheating sport and breaking the lawour technology enables us to monitor more matches on a deeper level providing more precise and accurate insights to help aid partners clients and the wider sports industry in efforts to safeguard sporting events from corruption we look forward to supporting even more sports federation and law enforcement partners in 2023sportradar integrity services used its ufds to monitor more than 850000 sports matches in 2022 and to provide an indepth analysis of the matchfixing landscape as a large representative sample size it can be taken as a strong indication of the true rate of matchfixing globally the annual report serves to highlight the extent of matchfixing and raise awareness of the latest and most extensive data and trendskey findings from sportradars integrity report are as followsthe ai model developed by sportradar for its ufds in 2022 directly identified 438 suspicious matches 36 of annual total leveraging the vast