Cross Validated Asked by Svexo on December 13, 2020
I recently played on a betting site (soccer games) and wondered how they change odds so quickly on sporting events. I get the basics of betting, but wonder how they change live betting odds so quickly?
Do they use variables as morale, ball possession, … ?
And if thats the case how do they calculate it in real-time?
The collection of odds (which I will call 'the book') are set up so bookies will make a profit.
As the bets come in, those odds have to shift in response, to keep the book in profit, so a given bet placed at one time will get different odds than a bet placed at a different time.
A second factor: if bookies offer odds too different from other bookies, they may experience punters exploiting that by 'making a book' of their own. So they tend to pay very close attention to other bookmakers odds and adjust in response.
If a bookie gets a bet large enough to eat their profits if it wins, they may attempt to 'lay off' a chunk of the bet with other bookmakers.
In some sporting events, the use of point-spreads comes into the calculations, either in place of or along with over-round, depending on the situation.
These days the whole book can be managed by computers. (If they're working with point-spreads, there may be some more-or-less formal model for the point-distribution of the two sides that will update over time. It may include whatever factors it occurs to them to include. Such information tends to be secret, since telling people too much information about your models will make you more easy to exploit, and there's a lot of money involved.)
You may find the following details of some help Making a book and Spread betting.
Correct answer by Glen_b on December 13, 2020
1 Asked on November 2, 2021 by julian-karch
4 Asked on November 2, 2021 by graham-wright
1 Asked on November 2, 2021 by rnorouzian
lme4 nlme mixed model r random effects model repeated measures
1 Asked on November 2, 2021 by juan-bromas
conditional expectation conditional probability econometrics probability
1 Asked on November 2, 2021 by user553480
generalized linear model mixed model poisson distribution poisson regression r
2 Asked on November 2, 2021 by kabindra-shahi
1 Asked on November 2, 2021
interaction multiple regression r regression statistical significance
0 Asked on November 2, 2021 by manav
inference mathematical statistics probability unbiased estimator
1 Asked on November 2, 2021 by mkn1
binomial distribution generalized additive model generalized estimating equations repeated measures
2 Asked on November 2, 2021 by colorstatistics
1 Asked on November 2, 2021 by nickb
4 Asked on November 2, 2021
1 Asked on November 2, 2021
least squares machine learning multiple regression regression
2 Asked on November 2, 2021 by bigyan
exact test hypothesis testing statistical significance t test
1 Asked on November 2, 2021 by amir-etemadi
4 Asked on November 2, 2021 by soulduck
classification machine learning regression supervised learning unsupervised learning
0 Asked on November 2, 2021 by anish-raina
2 Asked on November 2, 2021 by arnaud-mortier
0 Asked on November 2, 2021 by katikarnata
hypothesis testing mixed model quantile regression r treatment effect
2 Asked on November 2, 2021
Get help from others!
Recent Questions
Recent Answers
© 2022 AnswerBun.com. All rights reserved. Sites we Love: PCI Database, MenuIva, UKBizDB, Menu Kuliner, Sharing RPP