Betfair Graphs

Looking at multiple Betfair graphs within Fairbot is rather cumbersome and takes up a lot of screen real-estate. Besides, I prefer to use the Fairbot graphing functionality to view the streaming graph of the runner I'm interested in.

Still, it's useful to be able to look at all the Betfair graphs at once to get a quick overview of the market so I quickly knocked up a little web page to do the job for me. It's a bit rough and ready at the moment, but it does the job.

A quick nod to my old chat room chum Steve who showed me his version ages ago and I'm only now getting around to doing my own.

Good Customer Service

I can't believe this is the first time I've posted since last June and only a handful of posts in the past year. I've been so busy doing other things that this blog has, I'm sorry to say, been somewhat neglected. I'm afraid that situation won't change much any time soon though I will endeavour to put a bit more time into it.

Meanwhile, I just wanted to show my appreciation for the support I received from the developers of Fairbot.

As regular readers will know (assuming they are still around) I use Linux as my preferred operating system and Fairbot is the only trading application that is still supported for operation on my favourite OS.

A new version was released recently with which I had a problem. It was hogging the CPU, causing the cooling fan to go into overdrive. A quick email to the developers, Binteko, and the issue was resolved within twenty four hours.

It is always good to see great customer service, but especially so when developers are supporting products that run on Linux.

Pay a visit to Binteko and check out Fairbot.

How Ironic

I find it rather amusing that two of the main players in the on-going saga that is Rangers FC have the surnames 'Whyte' and 'Green', with the latter emerging as the would be 'saviour' of THE Rangers FC.

I'm sure the irony is not lost on only me.

EU Cookie Law

The new EU cookie law came into force this week, making it compulsory for website owners to make it clear to their users whether or not they use cookies.

Refer to my post on my business website for more details.

Maths For Lay Dutching To A Fixed Liability

This evening I 'Googled' for the maths behind lay dutching to a fixed max liability and found loads of links to on-line dutching calculators and little else. There is of course lots of trading/betting software out there that also has dutching calculators, but as I needed the maths for a bot I'm developing, I wound up working it out for myself.

Requirement: Calculate the individual stakes required based on a fixed overall maximum liability.

Looking at the correct score market of the Arsenal v AC Milan match to be held tomorrow night (6th Mar 2012) we see the lay odds for the 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-0 and 3-1 scores are as listed in the table below. Note, those scorelines have been picked at random for illustration purposes and do not indicate any thoughts I may have on the game.