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BetFair traders are getting ready for the BOOM.
BetFair: [...] we’ll be enabling the new matching process on soccer match odds markets, tennis match odds markets and greyhound win markets taking place on the UK exchange shortly. – Previously: BetFair’s new bet-matching logic…. (endorsed by Giberson International Incorporated). … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs
Tagged bet matching, bet matching logic, bet-matching engine, bet-matching process, bet-matching system, BetFair, Giberson International Incorporated, market designs, Market Liquidity, matching bets, matching trades, Mechanism Designs, prediction markets, soccer, tennis, trading engine, United Kingdom
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In a blow to the French, BetFair choose Bastille Day to premiere the revised version of the bet-matching logic of their prediction markets. — IMPROVEMENT MEANS BETTER LIQUIDITY FOR THEIR EVENT DERIVATIVE TRADERS.
- BetFair: Improvements to Betfair’s bet matching logic today, Monday 14th July: What’s changing? We’ve improved the code that matches bets. As well as matching backs against lays as we’ve always done, we’ll also try to match your bet against … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Explainers, Market Liquidity, Mechanism Designs
Tagged basketball, Bastille Day, bet matching, bet matching logic, bet-matching engine, bet-matching process, bet-matching system, BetFair, boxing, cricket, football, Germany, horse racing, ice hockey, manager, market designs, Market Liquidity, matching bets, matching trades, Mechanism Designs, Oxford, Player, prediction markets, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, RugBY League, Rugby Union, Sheffield, snooker, soccer, Spain, tennis, trading engine, Volleyball
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BetFair’s brand-new bet matching logic
BetFair: Betfair Customer Services 06 Jun 15:55 We held a forum Q&A session in March in which we announced that we were working on an improved version of bet matching. This would allow us to match bets across selections, and … Continue reading
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Tagged bet matching, bet matching logic, BetFair, Betfair Customer Services, BetFair's bet matching logic, event derivative markets, event derivatives, football, horse racing, market designs, matched bets, Mechanism Designs, Michael Robb, prediction markets, Roger Federer, tennis, Tony Clare, Wimbledon
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Tennis is not systematically nor institutionally corrupt. There is no evidence of a link to the Mafia.
Only 45 suspicious tennis matches out of the hundreds of thousands of matches played over the last five years. That’s peanuts. – Via Steve Roman Bloomberg New York Times The Times (of London) The Guardian – Previously: The Mark Davies … Continue reading
How BetFair markets are settled in the situation where their integrity team are unhappy about some aspect of the betting on that event
If suspicious betting is detected then the winnings of the specific accounts in question are frozen until such time as BetFair have had the chance to investigate and determine one way or the other. That has no effect on BetFair’s … Continue reading
BetFair withdraws / improves its brand-new matching-bet logic, which was (kind of) endorsed by the Chairman of the Midas Oracle Advisory Board.
Via Dave, BetFair: Changes to Betfair’s bet matching logic – update Betfair Customer Services 19 Mar 10:47 We’ve been trialling a new process for matching customer bets recently which has prompted considerable debate among some of our customers. Some of … Continue reading
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Tagged bet matching, BetFair, Betfair Customer Services, chairman, horse racing, market designs, Market Trading, Midas Oracle Advisory Board, prediction markets, tennis, tennis player
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If the British legal betting companies offer bets on the sport, it is because there is demand for bets on the sport —and if that demand were not offered in a regulated environment, it would be filled in an unregulated one (like what we see with TradeSports-InTrade and MatchBook in the US market).
Mark Davies of BetFair (PDF file): International Leaders in Sport conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 3-4th 2008. Keynote speech, April 4th. Mark Davies, Betfair. “New Understandings in Sports Betting” Minister, ladies and gentlemen… Thank you very much for your kind … Continue reading →