A digital advertisement for the online gambling company FanDuel is displayed in the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Miami Heat and the Memphis Grizzlies in Memphis on Friday. (Brandon Dill/AP)
On popular online sportsbooks this week, fans could find more than 700 ways to bet on how specific players might perform in Thursday’s Ravens-Dolphins game, 500 player-specific bets on Game 4 of the World Series and 200 more for Saturday’s Penn State-Ohio State football game.