fracsoft

[knot]

anyone on here ever used fracsoft.com to gather betfair data? if so is it possible to link fracsoft to excel? also it could become a little expensive using fracsoft, if interested please pm me about a sharing idea

[doris_day]

Yes, I'm a Fracsoft Swarm user and its a nice piece of kit although its no faster than BA in getting bets on.
As far as the historic data is concerned you can export to file which can be read by Excel but you can't export 'live' data from Swarm, nor can you set up triggers, unless you give your algorithm info to Alan or Tim for them to build you a custom trigger. And if you did that you'd be mad.
My own view is that its (Swarm that is) is way overpriced and for the majority of users offers nothing more than you'll get with BA. In fact for those who wish to build their own automated triggers BA is by far the best option around.

[ML594806]

Sorry, what's BA? I'd be keen to run some analysis on HD but Fracsoft can be very expensive for the amount of data you get.

[Captain Sensible]

Gruss Betting Assistant

[Craig]

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Perhaps in the future it might be feasible for Gruss to purchase a license for Betfair historical data, and to develop a back-testing product with exactly the same features as Betting Assistant.

In fact, there's another API developer — with an inferior product to Betting Assistant, I hasten to add — who is currently beta-testing just such an application with their user base.

Customers buy meetings in a similar way that Fracsoft customers do, but for (slightly) less cost.

From what I can tell, they've been beta-testing it since last year, so I suspect there are some technical hurdles that are proving difficult to overcome. Interesting, though.
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[austingrd]

I can't imagine imagine what the cost would be if there will be historical data. basically, those kind of data are very expensive to have. I'll try to look for alternatives though. See what I can some up.