Bookmakers, Big Data and The Future

[mathsnerd]

There are definitely people making good use of the GPS API. You should join the betfairlightweight Slack group if you want to get in touch with some of the people. Just do a google for betfairlightweight and you’ll find Liam’s github and link to the group.

Re: inaccuracy of GPS data, I’ve spoken to my account manager about it before and he basically said they’re constantly trying to improve the technology, but essentially the data is provided as is, and users are expected to factor in margins to account for data inaccuracies. There are people doing well from using the feed, so my advice would be to stay away from betting at the finish line, or at least manage your risk appropriately.

Oh don't get me wrong, overall the accuracy is good and what I have done with it has improved my results considerably (so far0. I suppose you could say that I am somewhat mystified by the way the errors manifest themselves (as a constant offset position vector as opposed to a more "random" type error) and looking for people who actually know what I am referring to as a GPS customer.

Thanks for yout suggestion though - I follow that github account actually but had not idea what Slack was until I just goodled it. I will do as you suggest.