'IR Delay' data from Betfair as reported by BA

[Hovrin]

Hi All,

I am working on an In Running system at the minute and I wondered if anyone can tell me what is the 'IR Delay' which is reported in cells K2 and K3?

Also, does anyone know how accurate the 'In Play' and 'Suspended' notifications are? Obviously BA reports them as soon as Betfair sends them but how close to the start and end of the race are they?

Thanks in advance.

Hovrin.

[milfor]

The in running delay is something like 8 seconds in football and 1 second in
horse racing. This means that each bet has to wait 1 second before it is put
into the market. Betfair says this is to protect bettors against the unfair
advantage people have that are live at the event. And before you ask:
There is no way around it regardless whether you use the webinterface or
any software.

[Hovrin]

Many thanks for that Milfor. That explains why some of my late bets have not been taken!!

[keesbart]

Hi All,
I noticed that the response time of a bet placed in the ladder is normally 250-500 ms (displayed in the black area at the bottom of BA).
If I fire a bet in the spreadsheet the response time is mostly between 1250-2500 ms.
Can anybody tell me what the reason is for this difference?

[GaryRussell]

Hi All,
I noticed that the response time of a bet placed in the ladder is normally 250-500 ms (displayed in the black area at the bottom of BA).
If I fire a bet in the spreadsheet the response time is mostly between 1250-2500 ms.
Can anybody tell me what the reason is for this difference?

Are you sure the difference isn't that you are betting on an in play market from the spreadsheet? The response time includes the in play delay so if you bet on in play horse racing for example the response time is always going to be 1000ms slower. There is no other reason for there being a different response time, the response times are recorded the same way so it should make no difference how the bet was placed.

[keesbart]

Gary,
I just did some bets through the ladder In Running.
The response times were indeed between 1200 and 1500 ms.
The earlier response times were from bets not In Running.