by negapo » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:23 pm
The most challenging is to get a feed for the current score of the match. You can deduct the score from the CorrectScore market and the OverUnder (both will give you information and can be useful) but you have to be careful. It would be good if you could monitor for market suspensions also and then try to ascertain if there was a goal scored.
You would have to build rules like:
If CurrentScore 0-0 best BackOdds > 500 or OverUnder 0.5 is closed you can assume that 0-0 is not the current score else you can assume 0-0
If OverUnder 1.5 still open you can assume the score is either 1-0 or 0-1 so you can check if the Correct Score 1-0 back odds are greater than the 0-1 and know the score.
Etc.
You can build this kind of rules or you can scrape a good live score feed (you would have to check the odds of the correct score anyway just to be certain).
You have to take further steps if the matched that you are betting are illiquid.
In liquid markets if you make a mistake you don't pay much (you can try to figure if a market is liquid by measuring the difference in ticks between best Back and Lay odds and the amounts available on each side).
It's not very complicated but it would involve some work.