10th January 2007, 06:04 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by jfc
I understand that Betfair does a have a facility for indicating market action by (anonymous coded) user, but that is only available to on-course Stewards.
However Betfair's public Market Information screen does provide a good insight into movements.
If I saw a single $2,000 bet crush the price from $10 to $3 I'd probably dismiss that as the actions of an opulent fool.
But if I instead saw a number of significant bets which did not firm the price, that would be consistent with the modus operandi of an astute informed player.
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That is my point exactly, for you to notice those types of bets, you would have to constantly monitor (100% of the time), just the bets on all runners, or on runners you were interested in, leaving you zero time to look at anything else.
Most people open several programs at once, monitor the various totes, corporate bookies, and of course Betfair, so you have to use your time wisely, especiall the closer it gets to racetime.
If the advantage tool, gave us the same type of statistical data as the stewards get, less the account numbers, we would all be better off. The advantage tool then would really be an advantage - why should the stewards be the only ones to source this significant data?
knowing it would not hurt them or anyone else, just make punters even more informed.
Tailwag
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