Author Topic: Help with Backing 1st Favourites based on Starting SP  (Read 1518 times)

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I have read many messages regarding changing the sort order based on short_sp / far_sp and actual_sp but still cannot get a trigger to work as I expect. I would like to back / dutch the 1st three horses based on the SP price order during pre-OFF. I'm evaluating the product and would like assistance in creating this trigger.

Example
Back Price / SP
1. 2.3 / 3.4
2. 4.5 / 4.8
3. 6.3 / 2.1
4. 14 / 7
5. 4 / 2.9

Based on the above example I would like to dutch selections 3, 5, 1 at back prices of 6.3, 4.0 and 2.3.

thanks. 

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Re: Help with Backing 1st Favourites based on Starting SP
« Reply #1 on: 02 Aug 2017, 13:34 »
Hi
the Betfair Starting Price (BSP or SP or actual_sp) is available as soon as the market turns in-play. In your example, where would you get the SP prices pre-off?

yes you can easily make a trigger to dutch back the first three based on SP, but this would have to be in-play
otherwise you can use near_sp or far_sp which are available pre-off

for example using near_sp 1 minute before the off:
dutch back
all matching selections
once per market
market status: idle
conditions:
markets minutes before the off is less than 1
and selections sorting order is defined by near_sp
and selections trigger expression match_index is between 1 and 3
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Re: Help with Backing 1st Favourites based on Starting SP
« Reply #2 on: 02 Aug 2017, 14:09 »
Thanks MarkV. I tried that code put still wasn't selecting the correct selects. I assume near_sp is the same as "Projected SP" what you see on the betfair site.

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Re: Help with Backing 1st Favourites based on Starting SP
« Reply #3 on: 03 Aug 2017, 05:38 »
Hi
yes here is Betfair's description
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