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100 Massachusetts Sports Betting Statistics for 2026
You need more than sportsbook turnover to understand Massachusetts betting. Regulator accounts show settled money and public receipts; original research shows how selected gamblers report their behavior. Neither can substitute for the other.
This page combines the latest available September accounts with clearly dated research. Survey findings retain their selected populations, activity definitions and reporting periods. Broader gambling findings are identified as context, never relabeled as sports-only population estimates.
Headline figures
- September 2026 DraftKings online sports current and future wagers settled: $389,439,864.48. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 FanDuel online sports taxable gaming revenue: $21,865,691.47. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 statewide retail and online sports tax collected: $14,221,533.23. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 MGM Springfield retail sports revenue hold: 17.38%. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting weekly frequency category: 26.3%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors reporting online sportsbook inside Massachusetts: 26.9%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors betting on sports parlays: 50.2%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing financial gambling-harm items: 25.0%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, high personal responsibility Positive Play category: 69.4%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, low gambling literacy Positive Play category: 78.9%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 dual sports/casino participants, mean gambling literacy Positive Play score: 3.64. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sports-only participants, mean pre-commitment Positive Play score: 5.43. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
What do Massachusetts online sportsbook accounts show?
Settled stakes reveal activity, not bookmaker profit. Keeping taxable receipts and tax payments separate makes the operator comparison useful without turning every dollar wagered into revenue.
How much did each online operator settle?
- September 2026 Bally Bet online sports current and future wagers settled: $3,823,724.58. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 BetMGM online sports current and future wagers settled: $56,836,019.29. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Caesars Sportsbook online sports current and future wagers settled: $23,431,433.57. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Fanatics online sports current and future wagers settled: $75,188,571.18. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 FanDuel online sports current and future wagers settled: $199,236,609.63. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 theScore Bet online sports current and future wagers settled: $18,037,677.20. (MGC, Oct 2026)
These are wagers on events settled in the reporting month. The definition differs from a cash-flow count of all bets placed during that month, especially for future events. DraftKings is showed above; the remaining operators retain their original account labels. These dollar totals do not count individual bettors.
How much online revenue was taxable?
- September 2026 Bally Bet online sports taxable gaming revenue: $387,166.70. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 BetMGM online sports taxable gaming revenue: $5,387,391.82. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Caesars Sportsbook online sports taxable gaming revenue: $1,429,167.58. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 DraftKings online sports taxable gaming revenue: $33,111,153.94. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Fanatics online sports taxable gaming revenue: $6,757,294.59. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 theScore Bet online sports taxable gaming revenue: $1,925,435.83. (MGC, Oct 2026)
Taxable gaming revenue is the report's tax-base measure. It is distinct from accrual win and does not represent net corporate earnings after operating costs. FanDuel's figure appears in the takeaways. The remaining figures preserve the published operator identities, which counts because extracted PDF text can place labels out of visual order.
How much tax did the online operators contribute?
- September 2026 Bally Bet online sports tax collected: $77,433.34. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 BetMGM online sports tax collected: $1,077,478.36. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Caesars Sportsbook online sports tax collected: $285,833.52. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 DraftKings online sports tax collected: $6,622,230.79. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Fanatics online sports tax collected: $1,351,458.92. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 FanDuel online sports tax collected: $4,373,138.29. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 theScore Bet online sports tax collected: $385,087.17. (MGC, Oct 2026)
These are the regulator's reported tax collections, not calculations made by multiplying another rounded headline. They concern sports wagering alone. Casino taxes and daily fantasy receipts appear elsewhere in the source report and are excluded from this operator comparison. The amounts reflect the same reporting window as the other account lines.
What do retail accounts and statewide totals show?
Retail sportsbooks deserve their own accounting frame. Combining their premises-based business with online accounts too early obscures differences in scale and the meaning of reported hold.
How do retail settlement and accrual win compare?
- September 2026 Encore Boston Harbor retail sports current and future wagers settled: $2,871,335.00. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Encore Boston Harbor retail sports accrual win: $101,022.00. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 MGM Springfield retail sports current and future wagers settled: $764,729.30. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 MGM Springfield retail sports accrual win: $132,933.55. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Plainridge Park Casino retail sports current and future wagers settled: $3,285,260.93. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Plainridge Park Casino retail sports accrual win: $173,671.11. (MGC, Oct 2026)
Settled stakes and accrual win measure different stages of the same activity. The latter subtracts payouts from the corresponding settled wagers. That relationship does not turn accrual win into net operating profit, since rent, staffing and other costs remain outside this table. The figures retain the venue labels used by the regulator.
What do retail tax and hold measures mean?
- September 2026 Encore Boston Harbor retail sports taxable gaming revenue: $93,844.00. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Encore Boston Harbor retail sports tax collected: $14,077.00. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Encore Boston Harbor retail sports revenue hold: 3.52%. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 MGM Springfield retail sports taxable gaming revenue: $66,609.66. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 MGM Springfield retail sports tax collected: $9,991.45. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Plainridge Park Casino retail sports taxable gaming revenue: $165,362.61. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Plainridge Park Casino retail sports tax collected: $24,804.39. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 Plainridge Park Casino retail sports revenue hold: 5.29%. (MGC, Oct 2026)
Reported hold is accrual win divided by settled stakes, according to the source glossary. It is an accounting outcome for this month, not a promised long-run margin or an individual customer's expected loss. Taxable receipts can differ from accrual win because the statutory tax base applies its own adjustments.
What is included in the statewide sports totals?
- September 2026 statewide retail and online sports accrual win: $72,597,290.43. (MGC, Oct 2026)
- September 2026 statewide retail and online sports taxable gaming revenue: $71,189,118.20. (MGC, Oct 2026)
The statewide tax collection is showed above. The remaining totals combine regulated online and retail sports wagering, excluding casino gaming and daily fantasy contests. Accrual win and taxable receipts should not be added together: they describe related account bases instead of separate streams of economic activity. The original report contains conflicting aggregate online settled-stakes figures between its overview and operator page. We exclude that aggregate and the corresponding combined-stakes headline instead of choose a preferred version. The individually checked operator rows remain usable. A later corrected release should replace the affected totals only after the discrepancy is resolved. This approach preserves the regulator's account definitions without silently repairing its published numbers.
How do sampled monthly gamblers bet on sports?
The SEIGMA panels describe engaged gamblers, not the entire Massachusetts population. Their strength is detail about behavior; their selection prevents a statewide prevalence headline.
How often did panel members bet on sports?
- 2022 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting monthly frequency category: 12.8%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- 2022 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting weekly frequency category: 18.9%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- 2023 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting monthly frequency category: 19.2%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- 2023 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting weekly frequency category: 28.3%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting monthly frequency category: 16.0%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting weekly frequency category: 25.5%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel, sports betting monthly frequency category: 19.2%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
The frequency responses are mutually exclusive coded categories. The monthly category must not be relabeled as a cumulative monthly-or-more estimate that includes the separately reported weekly group. All respondents already qualified as monthly gamblers in some form. Changing samples across waves also prevents treating these figures as the same individuals' trajectories.
Which social and land-based channels were reported?
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors reporting social betting with friends/family or office pools: 36.6%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors reporting social betting with friends/family or office pools: 32.2%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors reporting legal land-based sportsbook outside Massachusetts: 26.7%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors reporting legal land-based sportsbook outside Massachusetts: 32.3%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors reporting legal land-based sportsbook inside Massachusetts: 35.9%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors reporting legal land-based sportsbook inside Massachusetts: 36.0%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
These channel questions were asked of past-year sports bettors within the monthly-gambler panels. Respondents could use multiple channels, so the percentages are not market shares and should not be added into an exclusive distribution. Legal labels reproduce the questionnaire's self-reported categories; they do not independently verify each transaction's legal status.
Which online and underground channels were reported?
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors reporting underground bookmaker inside Massachusetts: 13.6%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors reporting underground bookmaker inside Massachusetts: 16.3%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors reporting online sportsbook outside Massachusetts: 20.9%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors reporting online sportsbook outside Massachusetts: 20.5%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors reporting online sportsbook inside Massachusetts: 30.3%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
The in-state online Fall result is showed above. The remaining responses cover the same conditional population and reporting framework. An online sportsbook described as outside Massachusetts is not automatically evidence of unlawful betting: the respondent may have been physically elsewhere. These survey responses cannot be equated with audited operator revenue or enforcement findings.
What do sports choices and broader gambling harms reveal?
Sports preferences and gambling harms have different denominators here. Keeping them separate prevents an engaged-gambler survey from being misquoted as evidence that a particular sports product caused a particular harm.
Which sports betting activities appeared in the panels?
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors betting on professional sporting events: 64.7%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors betting on professional sporting events: 61.1%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors betting on sports parlays: 49.3%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors betting on fantasy sports betting: 29.2%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors betting on fantasy sports betting: 28.5%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 panel sports bettors betting on sports they participated in: 12.5%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 panel sports bettors betting on sports they participated in: 12.5%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
These activities concern past-year sports bettors within the panel, with overlapping responses allowed. Parlays are a bet structure and fantasy is a distinct activity, so the categories are not a taxonomy of individual sports. The Fall parlay result is showed above. The survey does not supply transaction-level spending by activity.
What financial, health and emotional harms were reported?
- Spring 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing financial gambling-harm items: 20.7%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing health gambling-harm items: 9.0%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing health gambling-harm items: 11.8%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing emotional/psychological gambling-harm items: 19.1%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing emotional/psychological gambling-harm items: 21.9%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
These items concern all sampled monthly gamblers and their gambling overall. They cannot establish sports-specific harm rates or diagnose an individual. The Fall financial result is showed above. The selected comparisons remain within the later survey year, avoiding a simple trend line across the earlier change in problem-gambling assessment instruments.
What relationship, work and illegal-activity harms were reported?
- Spring 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing family/relationship gambling-harm items: 23.6%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing family/relationship gambling-harm items: 27.2%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Spring 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing work/school gambling-harm items: 10.7%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing work/school gambling-harm items: 13.2%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
- Fall 2024 monthly-gambler panel endorsing illegal-activity gambling-harm items: 10.0%. (UMass SEIGMA, Jul 2025)
The measures are endorsements of survey items, not administrative counts of family breakdowns, job losses or criminal convictions. The categories may overlap within a respondent. Unweighted panel results also differ from probability-based population estimates. Confidence intervals in the original table show uncertainty around the point estimates; differences should not automatically be treated as meaningful rankings.
What does Positive Play show among sampled online sports bettors?
Positive Play separates knowledge, responsibility and behavior. A favorable score in one domain should not be treated as proof of strength in every other domain.
How do responsibility and gambling literacy differ?
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, low personal responsibility Positive Play category: 10.6%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, medium personal responsibility Positive Play category: 19.9%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, medium gambling literacy Positive Play category: 13.0%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, high gambling literacy Positive Play category: 8.1%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
The high-responsibility and low-literacy results are showed above. The other categories complete the domain distributions for sampled online sports bettors, including people who also played in physical casinos. The study recruited engaged players, so these findings do not estimate the distribution among all Massachusetts adults. Category labels belong to the Positive Play framework and should not be substituted for clinical diagnoses or a simple safe-versus-unsafe classification.
How do honesty, control and pre-commitment compare?
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, low honesty and control Positive Play category: 14.2%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, medium honesty and control Positive Play category: 19.9%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, high honesty and control Positive Play category: 65.9%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, low pre-commitment Positive Play category: 18.8%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, medium pre-commitment Positive Play category: 20.9%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sampled online sports bettors, high pre-commitment Positive Play category: 60.4%. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
These are separate domains within the same sampled online sports-bettor group. Honesty and control concerns reported behavior, while pre-commitment concerns planning around play. A high classification should not be interpreted as immunity from gambling-related problems. Nor should a low classification be used to diagnose a disorder. The category percentages are reproduced as published, with ordinary rounding differences retained instead of forced into artificial precision.
How does Positive Play vary by gambling modality?
A modality comparison is useful only when the underlying groups remain visible. People who use both channels may differ from exclusive users in many ways beyond the channel itself.
How do literacy and responsibility means compare?
- 2025 sports-only participants, mean gambling literacy Positive Play score: 4.89. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 casino-only participants, mean gambling literacy Positive Play score: 5.38. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 sports-only participants, mean personal responsibility Positive Play score: 6.13. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 casino-only participants, mean personal responsibility Positive Play score: 6.36. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 dual sports/casino participants, mean personal responsibility Positive Play score: 6.17. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
The dual-channel literacy mean is showed above. These remaining values are scale means instead of percentages, probabilities or population prevalence estimates. Sports-only and casino-only identify exclusive activity groups in this engaged-player sample; dual means participants reported both forms. The comparison is observational. It does not establish that adding a channel causes a score to change, and it should not be generalized to every resident who occasionally gambles. The source table retains subgroup sample sizes and dispersion so readers can inspect how the averages were obtained.
How do behavioral scores compare across sports participants?
- 2025 sports-only participants, mean honesty and control Positive Play score: 5.63. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 dual sports/casino participants, mean honesty and control Positive Play score: 5.95. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
- 2025 dual sports/casino participants, mean pre-commitment Positive Play score: 5.94. (GamRes researchers, Jun 2026)
The sports-only pre-commitment mean is showed above. The remaining comparisons retain the distinction between exclusive sports participants and people who also played in physical casinos. These averages summarize responses within each group, not the range of experiences for every individual. They also use a different presentation from the categorical percentages in the preceding section, so the two should not be compared as if they shared units. The original table includes standard deviations and significance annotations. This page does not infer a causal channel effect from those annotations or treat statistical differences as a clinical threshold. Reading the behavior domains alongside literacy provides a more complete account of what the research actually measured.
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Methodology and sources
Every figure on this page comes from the organisation that produced it: regulators, statistics offices, public bodies, research institutes, and companies reporting their own data or surveys. Each one links to the original report or dataset and carries its release date. Survey results keep their population and fieldwork period, and financial figures keep the measure the producer used. Figures from different producers are not added together or ranked against each other. The page is reviewed monthly and updated when a producer releases newer data.
- GamRes researchers · Jun 2026
- MGC · Oct 2026
- UMass SEIGMA · Jul 2025