Wednesday should be a perfect day for BSP, with all the workforce back at it after the Papal disruption.

Yet in markets I've looked at so far today, BSP accounts for merely ~1% of the Betfair pool.

If BSP had anything going for it, I imagine that % would be heaps higher.

So I assume former big-betting BSP'ers inevitably get fleeced and don't hang around after that.

Thorns, Sportsbet pays Best Tote at Metro meets and best of NSW & Supertab for country meets (Country best) win or place. what I do is 2/3 bet at country best 1/3 at Unitab for the best average.

Cheers party, any idea how that comapers to I.A.S superprice?

all i can do is relate my experience with bsp & if my returns were less than what i would get out of the tabs i wouldn't be doing it

Thorns, well as I understand it Super price guarantees a better price than AT LEAST two of the big 3, so if you're getting BEST OF 3 (i.e. Sportsbet) you have to be in front don't you? (careful with those wordings that's where they trick you)

eg. 3 place divies $1.20, 1.30, 1.80, with Sportsbet you would be paid $1.80, with superprice you could be paid $1.31c, and still be within their guarantee.

JFC wrote


I think you are confusing Betfair SP with betting in running where people will offer 1.01 for a horse that looks to be the certain winner and as much as 1000 for a horse that looks like a certain loser.

Like Bookmakers SP, Betfair SP is based on the prices generally available just before the off.

Dealing with place betting is particularly tricky. Had a similar query to PP regarding place bets.

Created an account with Dynamic RaceOdds on a trial basis and was looking at the place markets yesterday.

Looking at the results from yesterday on the price at the jump - Betfair V Sportsbet it's probably a 60/40 win to Betfair as to who has the best prices for the place.

Not forgetting the fact you may have received even better odds during betting.

BUT the one issue is the relatively small pools. If you look at pools for R2 MV.
Victab is holding 206.5k while Betfair is 19.4 so it certainly wouldn't take much to struggle to get a bet on. Especially if you weren't betting on a metro meet on a Saturday.

Centrebet also looks to offer fixed odds place betting on Sat metro markets [at least].

No confusion.

I believe I've had some of those low matches myself.

The Far BSP can in theory be very bad value.

So if it is then matched against a sparse unmatched bets queue, the final BSP can also be very bad value.

Whilst I admit that I don't really know the go at Betfair, (I,ve looked at the site but find it very confusing) but from what I pick up from you blokes it would take a LOT of time and concentration to gain much advantange after comissions etc. but for me there is one KILLER,........ and that is 1&1/2 % charge for a deposit...... no way. remembering that I am mainly a place bettor.

PP, who charges you to make a deposit?, certainly not BF.