[ppug] Re: Lay Systems

  • From: Laurie McAnulty <mcanulty@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ppug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:42:33 +1000

Hi Chris

More info needed here I think.....but on what you've put

You need to split your system into price ranges ( as suggested in emails replying to you)

I feel anything over 16/1 TAB means you need a big bank behind you as Betfair overs are so high. I reckon you need on LOT of 70% and the bank to hold an adverse run. Watch those ones that are close to the TAB price here, quite a few get up, clever lot these Betfair punters!! Personally I ignore this price range as I don't want a killer result wiping me out, small fish for me. Also you need a huge amount in Betfair to lay the longer odds anyway eg say $10 on 3 50/1 shots means you have to have $1500 in your account to just do the 3 bets, $20 on 4 20/1 shots is $800 tied up etc etc.

Range 10 to 16 is better but still large overlays to fight against. I go out to 20/1 on Betfair price, have had some woeful results here with a system that didn't live up to expectations.....wasn't based on laying number 1 in a race, number was irrelevant, but this year in the races I was laying the topweight was annihilating me OUCH

Under 10/1 is where to go BUT I still insist on 50% loss rate, your 21% seems too skinny to me....without further info the bias to races 1-4 suggests 2 & 3 YO horses may be worth checking, early races are often age restricted

Laurie

Stebbo wrote:

Hi All,

There seems to be a little bit of interest in this area, and it's something that I've always been keen on doing... Like most who've tried in this area, I've been able to develop some very *bad* systems which give quite nice losses, but when trying to lay them always find that they're donkeys and the backers want high odds.

I've been playing with this idea for a little while, and have come up with the following figures over the past two years..

Bets:           3634
Race S/R:             9.9%
POT:               -31.6%
LRO:                73

Although the loss isn't all that high, I wouldn't mind getting most of that on that sort of turnover. The "system" hasn't been "tuned" in the sense of looking for the areas which find losers, but rather is something that I threw together out of "intuition"...

Almost half the bets are in the $2 to $11 range, where the S/R is 14% and the POT is a "healthy" -21%. It's interesting that the POT on races 1 to 4 is almost 40% on a poor s/r... Could be an interesting idea to just lay the first few races each day and take any profit that arises.

I'd be interested in people's comments on whether this is layable on Betfair.

Cheers,
Chris.



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