From Nigeria to Multiple Markets Across Borders: How SharpPunter Is Changing the Way Punters Analyse Sports

A typical Saturday slip in Nigeria is put together from several places at once: a booking code a tipster posted in a WhatsApp group with no explanation behind it, a few games a friend swore were safe, and, for many fans, their own club, added out of loyalty before anyone has checked its form.

If the code was shared from a bookmaker the punter does not use, he first has to rebuild it on his own bookmaker by hand, one match at a time, and once it is placed, a single one of its twelve games going the wrong way is enough to take down the slip and every version of it shared around the group, a pattern that repeats with codes passed around in Accra, Nairobi and Douala.

SharpPunter, a sp...