Odds Comparison Tool - Need your input to help build...

[Bruins4Life]

If you do something for horse racing, will you be able to differentiate tracks according to handle (amount of money wagered) ? You would need access to a book that doesn't put wagers directly into the track pool. I have access to a few of them when you are up and running.

 

[Sportsguy_USA]

Thanks. Appreciate it @Bruins4Life. Yes, I'm starting with the American sports -NFL, NCAAF, NBA, NCAAB, MLB and NHL to start.

Good progress today.

- Odds feed is working 100% now and building up the database against 5 books (to start)
- Acquiring next week historical odds data back to 2004 / 2006 (varies per sport)
- Front-end design complete and getting coded against a responsive (bootstrap) framework (meaning the presentation is responsive to mobile, desktop, and tablet)

Would love to have horses, soccer, rugby and cricket (always curious about betting action internationally on cricket), but earmarking for next phase. Gotta get the American sports working right first.

 

[Sportsguy_USA]

Good progress this week. I'm getting there. Ran into some issues with NCAAF but progressing through it. Had not realized the combo of university teams vs college teams in the same state would cause such headaches. (banging head on wall).
More amendments to the front end interface for better usability. Also amended to historical odds to include scores and points, as this will help in my second phase to allow to query the odds data and performance on ATS, totals and moneyline

Anyone have insight if cricket or rugby would be of value for the international markets like Asia Pacific and Euro?

Any more input guys? It's your feedback that's going into building this, or do you feel the above points exhausts everything of value to include?

 

[Sportsguy_USA]

Forgot to mention - wife is pissed I cancelled dinner date to work on this. Recommendations of something to smooth it over....cant deal with it right now lol. Will lose focus.

 

[raiders72]

I'm a huge fan of SportsOptions and they incorporate most of what's talked about above. It would be nice if you covered books that weren't already on SportsOptions or Donbest.

 

[Sportsguy_USA]

Thanks Raider for the response. Since you're an avid user of Sports Options, where do you see opportunity to better the services ? Where do they let you down, or miss the boat per-say. Probing here to see what I can do here to take it to the next level.

 

[Sportsguy_USA]

Guys...need some 3rd party perspective on the 'Alerts' piece. I'm trying to nail down the key 'rules' that you guys would like to get alerted on based on line movements. Here's what I have.

Option 1: Key Numbers
- Alert me if the point spread is (select - equal/greater/less than) to the key number of (user input value. ex. +7).

Option 2: Line Movements
- Alert me if the stake / risk is (select - equal/greater/less than) the value of (user input value. Ex. -125).

Option 3: Sportsbook Variations
- User picks "point spread" or "stake/risk". Based on their selection...
a) Point Spread: Alert me if the point spread is (select - more than/less than) (user input value. ex. 5) points across any of the Sportsbooks you selected.

b) Stake/Risk: Alert me if the stake/risk is (select - greater than/less than) (user input value. ex. 5) (user input measure. ex. percentage or points) across any of the Sportsbooks you selected.

Am I missing anything, do these sound correct, is there others I should consider or replace the above? Thanks all.

J.