BFbotmanager Automation Discussion

[Greg Mitchell]

@david-milligan said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

Hi folks, me again.

Got started with the 'Back the Course and Distance' preset filter and I think have gotten todays tips uploaded correctly.

Is it correct that the bot has marked this tip as for Place betting? I can't see anything in the filters about place betting vs win betting and can't really understand how the bot would know it was for Place bet when I only input the Provider, SelectionId and SelectionName in the CSV file.

Secondly, the other selections today didn't trigger a bet and I'm finding it hard to determine whether this was correct based on odds etc or if the bot is incorrectly set up. Screenshots attached.

Any help is very welcome, thanks.

David

As for the two that didn't fire, the first was probably because it was set for the Place Market and the odds may not have met the criteria, the second was also the odds, it SP'd at 7 so was probably higher before the off.

[Greg Mitchell]

@david-milligan I have attached the excel sheet I use for converting the downloaded selections to Tips. I have left mine in for today just to show you how it works. Basically:

Download the qualifiers from BTC
Copy and Paste into cell A2 on my sheet
Copy and Paste the green cells down to the bottom of your selections.
Copy and Paste (Paste Values) the green cells plus the purple header column to a new workbook
Save the new workbook as a csv file
Upload this file to BFBM
Away you go.

0_1675237297338_BTC Horse Tips.xlsx

[Greg Mitchell]

@david-milligan Can you widen the Market ID column so that I can see the full number please?

[David Milligan]

@greg-mitchell It's very weird, for example this morning I uploaded literally only the Provider and SelectionName columns. This is the tip in BFBM;

[Greg Mitchell]

@david-milligan Something amiss with your tips file I think, it shouldn't be loading the Place Markets, check the Market Id's. I can't see the full number in your screenshot

[David Milligan]

It's also a bit strange because the bot file says under "Markets Filter" - "Only following markets: WIN. For Place markets check Win market name text."

Haven't a clue

[David Milligan]

Hi folks, me again.

Got started with the 'Back the Course and Distance' preset filter and I think have gotten todays tips uploaded correctly.

Is it correct that the bot has marked this tip as for Place betting? I can't see anything in the filters about place betting vs win betting and can't really understand how the bot would know it was for Place bet when I only input the Provider, SelectionId and SelectionName in the CSV file.

Secondly, the other selections today didn't trigger a bet and I'm finding it hard to determine whether this was correct based on odds etc or if the bot is incorrectly set up. Screenshots attached.

Any help is very welcome, thanks.

David

[David Milligan]

@david-milligan Never mind, I think I've found most of them in the thread. Now to get them set up and off to the races!

[David Milligan]

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to the community but I see you guys are using BFBM for some of the horse racing strategies which are working well. I have used this software before to good effect with football strategies and I'm hoping to put the "preset" horse racing strategies to work!

Would anyone be able to point me towards the bot files for the "preset" horse racing strategies that I can see in the software? Hopefully with time we can work out a way to automate the CSV file alterations and streamline the upload a bit!

Thanks

David

[A Former User]

Hi all. Are there any bots for back the favourite. Thanks

[A Former User]

@paul-foster thanks mate

[Paul Foster]

@robert-cooke in staking tab select “Liability or amount to win”. Then tick the Calculate stake as liability.

[A Former User]

Hi . Can anyone help be with setting flat liability stakes for lay the beaten favourite. Thanks

[A Former User]

@steven-white said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

5851483 = Over 0.5
1221386 = Over 1.5
47973 = Over 2.5
1222345 = Over 3.5
1222346 = Over 4.5
1485568 = Over 5.5

Top man, cheers. Will update my original post.

[Martin]

@daniel-mills said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

Just in case this is useful to anyone who wants to pull in football selections to BFBM, this should be pretty straightforward if you’re already following Johns tip for uploading horse selections.

You need to grab the BF Event ID and Filter Name from the football strategy selections spreadsheet.

Then, depending on the market your strategy places bets on, you need to add in the following fields:

SelectionID - this is the market and selection ie. over 1.5 goals
MarketType - name of the market ie. MATCH_ODDS
MarketName - see above ie. Match Odds
SelectionName - This is the name of the runner or selection, so in OVER_UNDER_15 it would either be ‘Over 1.5 Goals’ or ‘Under 1.5 Goals’

SelectionID’s for football matches don’t change from what I can see, a group of lay the draw tips would all have the same selection ID.

For reference:

The Draw = 58805
Over 1.5 Goals = 1221386
Under 1.5 Goals = 1221385
Under 0.5 = 5851482
Under 2.5 = 47972
Under 3.5 = 1222344
Under 4.5 = 1222347

Those are the ID’s I have to hand for the strategies I use, you’ll have to do some digging if you want the selection ID’s for your own strats if they use different markets.

Here’s an example using a couple of the members filters today.

If you look at C2, you’ll see the game in Belgium has a BF Event ID of 0, that won’t work with BFBM so you’ll need to enter it manually. Usually if you pull your filters off on the day of the match the football software will have it. The others all look fine though.

You don’t need any other data than the Filter Name and BF Event ID!

You can rename the headers in row 1 and ditch the other info (or copy this into a new sheet):
Filter Name = Provider
BF Event ID = EventID

So, with a bit of formatting, those six selections should look like this:



I put a blank line between the strategies but that’s so I can read it easier. I include the selectionName info for my own reference too.

I can’t see the Belgium game on Flashscore, so it must have been postponed and we can ignore row 2.

Both Martin and Ryans strategies place bets on the Over 1.5 market, so they have the same SelectionId, Tomasz places bets on the Under 1.5 goals, hence the difference.

If you had an SHG strategy, you’d need to do a separate line for each goal market so over 0.5, over 1.5 etc.

Save this out as a CSV file and import into your tips in BFBM and if it’s found everything, you should see it populate in the manage tips window with all of the other information such as game time, team names etc…





The ones in green for Tomasz’ strat have already been placed.

You need to make sure you have your markets loaded in BFBM otherwise they won’t trigger, even when you’ve loaded the tips in. I use a couple of different strats and don’t want to load every single market for every game so I set up an auto load preset for each strategy and trigger it manually when I need to:



I usually do this before I upload the tips so any pre-game bets fire off straight away.

Feel free to test this out for yourselves with the following BFBM strats I built for Tomasz and Martins set and forget picks:

0_1674395922297_BTC Tomasz Under 1.5 Goals.gz

0_1674395935650_BTC Martin Over 1.5 Goals.gz

Both are set up for £2 level stakes so adjust it for your own preference.

Paging @Martin for the strats!

Amazing thanks!

@ryan this will be useful for the guide you are creating!

[A Former User]

@daniel-mills Here are some more Selection id's

5851483 = Over 0.5
1221386 = Over 1.5
47973 = Over 2.5
1222345 = Over 3.5
1222346 = Over 4.5
1485568 = Over 5.5

[A Former User]

@jon-batten No problem. Don't think the manual does the best job of explaining it for football markets

[A Former User]

@Daniel-Mills fantastic post thankyou for detailed information it will make life a lot easier for all of us loading the football strategies in.

[A Former User]

Just in case this is useful to anyone who wants to pull in football selections to BFBM, this should be pretty straightforward if you’re already following Johns tip for uploading horse selections.

You need to grab the BF Event ID and Filter Name from the football strategy selections spreadsheet.

Then, depending on the market your strategy places bets on, you need to add in the following fields:

SelectionID - this is the market and selection ie. over 1.5 goals
MarketType - name of the market ie. MATCH_ODDS
MarketName - see above ie. Match Odds
SelectionName - This is the name of the runner or selection, so in OVER_UNDER_15 it would either be ‘Over 1.5 Goals’ or ‘Under 1.5 Goals’

SelectionID’s for football matches don’t change from what I can see, a group of lay the draw tips would all have the same selection ID.

For reference:

The Draw = 58805
Over 1.5 Goals = 1221386
Under 1.5 Goals = 1221385
Under 0.5 = 5851482
Under 2.5 = 47972
Under 3.5 = 1222344
Under 4.5 = 1222347

Thanks to @steven-white for these ones:

5851483 = Over 0.5
1221386 = Over 1.5
47973 = Over 2.5
1222345 = Over 3.5
1222346 = Over 4.5
1485568 = Over 5.5

Those are the ID’s I have to hand for the strategies I use, you’ll have to do some digging if you want the selection ID’s for your own strats if they use different markets.

Here’s an example using a couple of the members filters today.

If you look at C2, you’ll see the game in Belgium has a BF Event ID of 0, that won’t work with BFBM so you’ll need to enter it manually. Usually if you pull your filters off on the day of the match the football software will have it. The others all look fine though.

You don’t need any other data than the Filter Name and BF Event ID!

You can rename the headers in row 1 and ditch the other info (or copy this into a new sheet):
Filter Name = Provider
BF Event ID = EventID

So, with a bit of formatting, those six selections should look like this:



I put a blank line between the strategies but that’s so I can read it easier. I include the selectionName info for my own reference too.

I can’t see the Belgium game on Flashscore, so it must have been postponed and we can ignore row 2.

Both Martin and Ryans strategies place bets on the Over 1.5 market, so they have the same SelectionId, Tomasz places bets on the Under 1.5 goals, hence the difference.

If you had an SHG strategy, you’d need to do a separate line for each goal market so over 0.5, over 1.5 etc.

Save this out as a CSV file and import into your tips in BFBM and if it’s found everything, you should see it populate in the manage tips window with all of the other information such as game time, team names etc…





The ones in green for Tomasz’ strat have already been placed.

You need to make sure you have your markets loaded in BFBM otherwise they won’t trigger, even when you’ve loaded the tips in. I use a couple of different strats and don’t want to load every single market for every game so I set up an auto load preset for each strategy and trigger it manually when I need to:



I usually do this before I upload the tips so any pre-game bets fire off straight away.

Feel free to test this out for yourselves with the following BFBM strats I built for Tomasz and Martins set and forget picks:

0_1674395922297_BTC Tomasz Under 1.5 Goals.gz

0_1674395935650_BTC Martin Over 1.5 Goals.gz

Both are set up for £2 level stakes so adjust it for your own preference.

Paging @Martin for the strats!

[Martin]

@daniel-mills said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

@Martin Hi mate, give these a try. All are set to 2% stakes on a £100 bank.

0_1674244195889_BTC Back the Course and Distance.gz

0_1674244199651_BTC Back the Favourite at the off.gz

0_1674244206534_BTC John's Flat Pace Backs.gz

0_1674244211816_BTC John's Pace Lays.gz

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