Bit of help please

[firech8787]

Hi, I'm new to automation and looking to run a test in greyhound racing.

The idea is to place a lay bet on the selection with the highest lay odds one minute before the race starts. For all races and venues that day

Is there a way to automate this?

[Dallas]

Assuming its UK greyhound racing which have 6 runners an easy way is to just apply the rule to the selection
'By position (sorted in order of favouritism) 6

However there maybe 1 or 2 races a day were only 5 dog are running due to a withdrawal etc, with the above the rule would just not trigger on these races, but if you still wanted to trigger on the outsider you can do it by adding a second rule to your file this time apply the rule to the selection
'By position (sorted in order of favouritism) 5

And arm that rule about 5 or 10 seconds after your first rule
and on the conditions tab add the following
Number of Place Bet Triggers condition on Market is equal to 0

That will only allow that rule to trigger if the first hasn't

[Win]

My experience with greyhound races is that there are often long delays between when the race is scheduled to start and when it does, and the gap between the back and lay price on the higher odds selections is often quite wide until just before the race actually does start.
I have never found an efficient method to identify when the race will actually start so gave up trying to place bets on greyhounds based on start times.

[jamesedwards]

My experience with greyhound races is that there are often long delays between when the race is scheduled to start and when it does, and the gap between the back and lay price on the higher odds selections is often quite wide until just before the race actually does start.
I have never found an efficient method to identify when the race will actually start so gave up trying to place bets on greyhounds based on start times.

Use a condition that book percentages must be below X for back% and above X for lay%.

eg if back book% is below 102% and lay book % is above 98% then you can be sure that the market is well formed before entering.

[Win]

My experience with greyhound races is that there are often long delays between when the race is scheduled to start and when it does, and the gap between the back and lay price on the higher odds selections is often quite wide until just before the race actually does start.
I have never found an efficient method to identify when the race will actually start so gave up trying to place bets on greyhounds based on start times.

Use a condition that book percentages must be below X for back% and above X for lay%.

eg if back book% is below 102% and lay book % is above 98% then you can be sure that the market is well formed before entering.

Thanks. I will have a look at that next time I want to dabble in greyhounds, and I guess the same would apply to US horse races which I also keep away from for the same reason.