I am considering BA as a possible solution to a fairly simple requirement.
I am betting on football games, match odds only. I want BA to automatically examine every football match that is being offered on Betfair (for as far ahead as Betfair allows) and subsequently place bets on those that meet some simple criteria at a certain time in the match. I will use an attached Excel spreadsheet to trigger the bet.
I have to admit that using BA for something as simple as this seems to be a bit of an overkill but I don't know of another way to automate this process.
I'd welcome your thoughts about BA's ability to do this and, moreover, is there a simpler way?
Using BA to automate decisions for all football matches
You can do pretty much anything you want with Excel no matter what your criteria - providing you have experience using Excel and can write the required macros/instructions
You could also probably do it using Bet Angels Advanced Automation, and that requires no coding experience as everything is selected from picklist menu's.
There are also dozens of ready-made files in the football area of the shared files so you might find something along the lines of what you're wanting to do already made or requiring just minor edits
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You only limitation will be the number of markets, Betfair only allow up to 1000 markets when using streamed, you could add more if using polling but the slower refresh rates means that even using the fastest of 200ms it would take just over 3minutes to refresh 1000 markets just once
You could also probably do it using Bet Angels Advanced Automation, and that requires no coding experience as everything is selected from picklist menu's.
There are also dozens of ready-made files in the football area of the shared files so you might find something along the lines of what you're wanting to do already made or requiring just minor edits
viewforum.php?f=50
You only limitation will be the number of markets, Betfair only allow up to 1000 markets when using streamed, you could add more if using polling but the slower refresh rates means that even using the fastest of 200ms it would take just over 3minutes to refresh 1000 markets just once