Best way to determine wether a game is draw at HT

[betmonty]

Hi all,

I am playing around with this strat I developed, and I am now at the point I feel comfortable putting it into practice after a lot of paper trading.

I am completely new to automation however, so my question is this one; given the fact that one of my conditions pre-game is to exclude odds-on games (either home or away), is there a way to "read" the odds on the draw at half-time and compare them with the pricing of the home team and away team?

Based on my pre-game conditions, bar any red cards, the price of the draw should be the lowest at HT I think...tbh, not even sure about that, this strat came out of the woodwork when I was testing something else!

Is there anybody who can point me in the right direction to determine whether a game is a draw at HT based on odds?

Thanks in advance.

[Dallas]

You can add a rule called 'Set/Modify signal' with a fixed-odds condition to test the price of the fav so if its below 2.0 (or whatever you chose) it triggers and sets a signal.

Then on your back/lay rule on use a 'signal set condition' to test if the above signal has been set (if so the rule won't trigger)

You can also use signals to test if it's still a draw at HT, there is a ready-made rule you can download to do this
viewtopic.php?f=50&t=12490

You'd then add another 'signal value condition' to your back/lay rule to test the value of the signal is 0

So basically your back/lay bet rule on the draw is looking for 2 signal to be set before it can trigger

Probably sounds complicated but it's quite straight forward to do, so if you get stuck just post back

[betmonty]

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Quick question though; will the signal in the ready made rule be given once the draw condition is "broken" in the first half?

Reason I ask is I only really care about HT game-state, not what happened in the first half.

Thanks for your help.

[Dallas]

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Quick question though; will the signal in the ready made rule be given once the draw condition is "broken" in the first half?

Reason I ask is I only really care about HT game-state, not what happened in the first half.

Thanks for your help.

Yes, you'd arm the back/lay rule to trigger on the draw 00:50:00 mins after going in-play
The signal would increment the value by 1 if home team scores and decrease by 1 if away team scores, so by testing its value is 0 then you'll know its a draw.
It could be 1-1 or 4-4 no matter how the goal path went it would still end up back at 0 if they are drawing

[betmonty]

Fantastic tip, thank you so much!