@Adam thanks very helpful
@Brigitta-Nagy use 'Classifications' then select 'Maiden'
If I am looking at a particular game on the football software, is there anywhere on there that tells me how close that particular league is to being done?
@John-Folan Thats why I like it a lot as well, because I have to proper zone out and focus which is great!
Annoying when the wife is like whats happening, get off your phone!
one game tonight
20:00 Ajax v Excelsior
@Jon-Kinnear said in Jon's FHG Strategy/Testing/Data collection:
National 12 over 1.5 fhg and just 1 under 0.5 fhg odds 3.60 under 2.80 for over
AC milan 8 over 1.5 fhg and just 1 under 0.5 fhg odds 3.40 for under 2.94 for over
Barnechea 3 over 1.5 fhg with 0 under 0.5 fhg odds 3.55 for under 2.84 for over
Universidad same as Barnechea 3-0 odds 3.45 for under 2.96 for over
National had 2 fhg, and the other 3 games all had 1 goal for scratch + 2.74 for yesterday
+5.84 points overall
6 wins
3 loses
4 scratch
1 postponed
nothing today
Scratch yesterday. Two potentials today
@Paul-Hill don't think we could even investigate that, as there is no strategy to work from. perhaps something in the betting rules was slightly different, impossible to know if it wasn't saved unfortunately.
if you are 100% sure create it again and see if the results align with the saved one, save both and let us know the names if there is an issue and we could investigate.
Sun 21/04/2024 Selections.
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Works well any decent T20 league
Back opening team first exit 20% profit or 50% loss
been doing this for a while
@John-Folan Had this conversation with someone else who thought the same. I really like running in the rain though so couldnt see it myself. Im not a horse though I guess...
@Paul-Hill The outsider is the horse with the highest price.
2nd outsider is the horse with the 2nd highest price, etc. Basically the opposite of the favourites.
The outsider setting works in conjunction with the other betting rules, so for example if you set your entry time as 10 mins before the race, it's basically going to give you whichever horse had the highest price at 10 mins before the race.
@Patrick-Murphy Having looked at some of these, it looks like they're due to gaps in the prices. So basically short amounts of time where we weren't able to capture price snapshots, so your exits have either been missed completely or recorded later than they should have been.
These gaps can be due to latency or brief outages of the Betfair API and occasionally due to some issue our end, like the server issue I posted about recently here.
We regularly plug these gaps where we can using the Betfair historical data, and we've recently improved our audit scripts to better identify when they happen, so have been going through the whole database again to apply this improved method. It's a fairly big task but should be finished by the end of next week.
Sometimes when the issue is at Betfair's end, the data doesn't even appear in their historical data, which means we won't be able to plug the gaps at all. This will represent a fraction of a percent of trades, but I can understand that if you're backing at very high odds and large stakes, it could skew the profit figure.
Maybe we need a way of marking these in the database. We could also add some kind of "report and exclude" button to each individual trade in the results table, so that if you spot any of these yourselves, you can submit them for review and make them not appear in your backtesting results.
I'll finish the DB audit and then see what we can do to deal with any issues that still remain.
@Simon-Hardy interesting, not tried this but keep me updated with how you get on!
@Martin Hi, thanks yes i think I’ll have to do this as you say to find out. I track the trades so in time should be able to.
I think getting out of a losing trade with the smallest loss could be something i focus more on rather than staying in for slightly greater wins. Kind of the same thing but the opposite.
So while the P&L isn't great, mentally another good week. Have decided for the football, I seem to be better at finding value bets so will follow that philosophy for now rather than using specific strategies.
I have also created a framework for my manual horse bets in the horse racing software and found what I do should be profitable over the long term which is reassuring even if it can't be automated (think it might be but will take more research).
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Thanks, Adam, that's really useful to know 👍 it has been bugging me.
@Barry-Dewar Why do you think that is?
Very much interested in this!
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