U.S. net betting losses crossed $17B in 2025, up 35x from 2019 and growing 35% a year
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Rapid exponential growth in sports betting losses/revenue, mainstream adoption
Problem gambling impacts, regulatory concerns, who the actual losers are
Conflating player losses with industry success, inevitability of expansion
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QUESTIONABLE. The $17B figure is close ($16.96B per AGA). But the "35x from 2019" is overstated: using the commonly cited ~$900M for 2019, the multiplier is ~19x, not 35x. Ball may use a lower $481M baseline excluding Nevada retail to reach 35x. The "growing 35% a year" is also overstated: actual 2024-to-2025 growth was 22.8% per AGA. Each individual component is defensible at the extreme, but the combination pushes every metric toward the high end simultaneously.
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