Data Useage

[Fixador]

Before I get into trouble again with BF, this is a request for some advise before I pose the following question to BF:-

after reading http://www.betfair.com/aboutUs/Betfair.Charges/%20%20section%205 I have been counting on my fingers as follows:-

What I am considering doing is as follows:-

To have upto 6 markets (tabs in BA and Excel ) open simultaneously - all UK horse racing ( I cant remeber if there has ever been actually as many 6 afternoon venues of UK horse racing - I dont do evening start venues - ie first race after 6 pm ). Anyway, I am assuming 6 venues, ie 6 markets simultaneously open.

Assuming a worst case - the racing scheduled start times are 5 mins apart ( its a saturday ! )

My basic refresh rate for each market is once per second - ie, 2 data requests/second

But, in any 5 min period - one of the markets will have its refresh rate increased to 5 per second for approximately 30 seconds ( worst case - I hope ) during part of the 'in-running' period.

So, in the 30 second period - I reckon my requests are:-

5 markets at 2 data requests/second each = 10 data requests/second

1 market at 10 data requests/second = 10 data requests/second

So for 30 seconds in a 5 minute period my max request rate = 20 data requests/second ........... right on the limit !

However, at any one time, some of these markets are going to be 'closed' - the data request rate on a closed market is ??????????

That's the end of the question at the moment - well as much as much as my addled brain can cope with. I realize there is more in section 5 - as relates to the average data requests over an hour.

So, I suppose another question is - should I reduce my basic request rate down from 1 refresh per second to say 0.75 refreshes per second - to stay well away from the data useage limit ?

Thanks for reading. Fixy

[alrodopial]

I have my limit set to 30/sec because the limit increases by the bets I place.
I dont think I even reach this new limit
Based on your risked amounts the requests can increase greatly.
Decrease your refresh rate to 0.5 per sec while increasing the max to 30/sec for a day.
I dont think you will have any problem
Just check it for a day

[Captain Sensible]

Under the Account tab on Gruss there's a selection called 'Calculate Data Requests Allowed' check that out as if you're quite active with your betting you'll most likely pay a fair amount of commission and that really racks up the requests you can use. I regularly go over the limits but my commission always offsets any data and transaction costs

[Fixador]

Thanks guys for the input - might be a while getting to grips properly with this.

I am just about ready to give it a whirl tomorrow - fingers crossed I have all of the code bugs out now.

More queries to follow no doubt.....

[wizardofmann]

I am fairly new to using Gruss software. I have not dared to mess with the throttling/data requests after watching the tutorials, so it is still set to the default of 10 date requests per second.

I only bet on UK/Irish horse racing and never place more than 40 bets per hour. I have carefully read the Betfair charges section but I am still none the wiser as to what the maximum requests I could set the throttling to. If someone would be kind enough to advise me on this I would be forever grateful.

I thank you in advance.

[milfor]

Don't mix up transaction charge for bets and data charge for requests.
You can make 1000 bets per hour (only 333 if they are below £2).
You can set the throttling to 20 if you only have 1 Gruss open and don't use other accesses to Betfair at the same time.

[wizardofmann]

Thank you very much milfor. Yes I only use 1 Gruss. By accesses I presume you mean I don't have the Betfair site open as well?

[milfor]

If you have the Betfair site open and a script refreshes every second then
this would be a problem. If you have the Betfair site open and you only
refresh manually then it's no problem.

[wizardofmann]

Thanks again milfor and most appreciate your input