Betfair Volume Analysis
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3ya6cnj0rqxn ... A.csv?dl=0
No guarantees on this as there is certainly data missing in 2005/2006, looks like there is some missing in August 2014 as well. Cricket was looking good up until this year, there is almost more money traded on it than Tennis, Peter is that where you hide Football is the worst performer this year with a small drop of 2.2billion, how does 2.2billion disappear?
I noticed on the betfair forum that someone posted a link to the dashboard I posted in the middle of 2014 claiming that volume had dramatically decreased in 2014. Please note that the dashboard only contained data up till the middle of 2014, hence the drop from 2013.
No guarantees on this as there is certainly data missing in 2005/2006, looks like there is some missing in August 2014 as well. Cricket was looking good up until this year, there is almost more money traded on it than Tennis, Peter is that where you hide Football is the worst performer this year with a small drop of 2.2billion, how does 2.2billion disappear?
I noticed on the betfair forum that someone posted a link to the dashboard I posted in the middle of 2014 claiming that volume had dramatically decreased in 2014. Please note that the dashboard only contained data up till the middle of 2014, hence the drop from 2013.
Thanks, I saw that post but Betfair banned me from their forum so I couldn't point out his error. Nobody else seemed to spot it!LinusP wrote:I noticed on the betfair forum that someone posted a link to the dashboard I posted in the middle of 2014 claiming that volume had dramatically decreased in 2014. Please note that the dashboard only contained data up till the middle of 2014, hence the drop from 2013.
Haven't looked at the data just yet, but Cricket probably would have suffered because of the crack down on illegal gambling in India. However that appears to be run from Dubai now according to posts on the forum.LinusP wrote:Cricket was looking good up until this year, there is almost more money traded on it than Tennis, Peter is that where you hide Football is the worst performer this year with a small drop of 2.2billion, how does 2.2billion disappear?
On Footy Betfair have stopped rushing bets onto the exchange so I reckon that's the cause of a big drop. I noticed they have been setting up the markets so they are similar to Bet365 at 103% of book. I guess that's diverted money as well as people think 5% commission is a 105% book, but it's not.
I'll have a nose around the data over the next week.
Just reassure yourself that Breon paid himself £11m of our money last year turning Betfair from one of the most loved gambling companies ever created, into one of the most hated. A generation of punters is being encouraged to lose lots of money when a click away they would be so much better off. Nice if you can get away with it, but unlikely to win any awards for morality.LeTiss 4pm wrote:Depressing reading, but not surprising
If BF have any desire whatsoever of stimulating the exchange, they need to end PC. The problem is, they are so flipping arrogant as a company, they will never do it out of principle