in-running bets matched at worse odds than my offer price

[ANGELS15]

Here is the full explanation from Betfair of the cross-matching process.

viewtopic.php?t=11066

Thanks Peter much appreciated

[ANGELS15]

I've found another example: Today I dobbed 'By Rail' in the 4.20 lingfield. Backed 4 times for small stakes at odds 73 -85 with offset bets at odds 36 - 42. I thought it might drop to those prices in running. It touched 55 in running according to my observation during the race. Immediately after the race I looked at it's graph on betfair which shows lowest matched price 23! My bets were never matched.

I've taken screen shots from my phone as I was using Betfair mobile. I would like to post those images on here but am not that tech savvy. Anyone have any ideas how I could do this?

[Dallas]

Below the box you type your message in is an attachment tab, just click that and 'Add files

When you say it was matched lower in running if your looking at the traded amounts next to the prices are you sure these could have been from when the market first opened before the price later drifted out

[ANGELS15]

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When you say it was matched lower in running if your looking at the traded amounts next to the prices are you sure these could have been from when the market first opened before the price later drifted out

To be honest I assumed the graph prices referred to 'in-running' as it was forcast as being a big outsider and had been big prices throughout the day. Looking again at the graph the lowest prices matched were quite early in the odds history. If that graph history is taking in the whole day and not just the in-running market then perhaps that explains things. I just looked at Timeform for the horse and it shows lowest in-running price matched '48' which would explain why my bets weren't matched.

[ANGELS15]

Isn't it amazing how we can take things for granted. I had assumed that just as the market changes during in-running that also the graph would change over to reflect the in-running odds. What also illustrates my previous point about betfair technical support and how the people they staff it with don't seem to know much more than lay people, when I had queried this a few years ago they couldn't explain it to me and were as confused as I was.

[ANGELS15]

Thanks again to everyone for your input

[firlandsfarm]

Looking again at the graph the lowest prices matched were quite early in the odds history. If that graph history is taking in the whole day and not just the in-running market then perhaps that explains things.

Have a look at the BSP prices file dwbfpricesukwin01022020.csv for the day obtainable here (note the date in the file title is the day the file was prepared, the next day, and not that day's racing … don't ask!). For By Rail in the 16:20 at Lingfield on 31/01 it gives the lowest In-Play odds as 48 and the lowest Pre-Play odds as 27. So it didn't quite reach the highest of your range for Dobbing.

[ANGELS15]

Looking again at the graph the lowest prices matched were quite early in the odds history. If that graph history is taking in the whole day and not just the in-running market then perhaps that explains things.

Have a look at the BSP prices file dwbfpricesukwin01022020.csv for the day obtainable here (note the date in the file title is the day the file was prepared, the next day, and not that day's racing … don't ask!). For By Rail in the 16:20 at Lingfield on 31/01 it gives the lowest In-Play odds as 48 and the lowest Pre-Play odds as 27. So it didn't quite reach the highest of your range for Dobbing.

Thanks for the link much appreciated.