Legwork
Every strategy, run on the morning's prices, the footy and the races on one pad. The day is one list in start order, and each ticket is printed with the chance it actually has. Tune a strategy, backtest it, then place it with your own bookie.
Medium risk
3 legs$3.47 Stake $10.00 · Returns $34.70 Sample
Fair $3.71 · pays $3.47 (−6.5%)
Pays $34.70 · same legs as singles at best price $37.58 (−$2.88)
Prices from Sportsbet at 7:02 am · chance treats legs as unrelated
High risk
4 legs$9.84 Stake $10.00 · Returns $98.40 Sample
Fair $12.95 · pays $9.84 (−24.0%)
Pays $98.40 · same legs as singles at best price $108.59 (−$10.19)
Prices from Neds at 9:11 am · chance treats legs as unrelated
Sport and racing in one list, in start order, with a rule where the next one starts. Every strategy has already run over the morning's prices; the strategy is an eyebrow on the ticket, not a folder you have to open.
Horses, greyhounds and harness on one card: every Australian and New Zealand meeting, fourteen books on every runner, the scratchings and the real jump time.
Betfair carries no bookmaker's margin, so it is what a price is read against. A runner one book is paying over the odds on is a mispriced runner, and it says which book and by how much.
Racing all-up strings the card's shortest favourites together, two legs, three or four. Racing value takes one runner a race, where your book pays more than the exchange says the runner is worth.
Tap it on any ticket and it is Pending in History. A race settles from the official placings, dead heats and scratching deductions included, and reads "Settled from results".
Eight ways to pick legs, five over the fixtures and three over the races, each explained in plain words. Tune one or write your own, with no code, and show or hide any of them on Today.
This is the difference. Most of a ticket is the price; the rest of it is what that price is really worth, printed where a punter reads it rather than in terms nobody opens.
The chance, and the assumption under it. Multiplying four prices only works if the four legs have nothing to do with each other, so the ticket says so out loud. Legs always come from different matches or different races.
The same legs with each book's margin stripped out, beside what the ticket actually pays. The gap compounds: it is the per-leg margins multiplied, which is why four legs cost so much more than one.
What folding them costs, in dollars, because nobody bets a percentage. It is faint and it is never red: four singles are a different bet with a different variance, not a better version of this one.
What the ticket is worth on its own book's prices, before any luck. The app prints it rather than leaving it behind the returns figure.
Low, medium, high and outrageous are bands on what the legs actually multiply out to. A ticket says "Low risk" because the chance beside it earned the word, never because it is short.
A stamp the app puts on its own work. It claims nothing it has not measured, and a strategy whose record against the close is behind the market says so on its own card.
Every settled leg is scored against the market's final answer, devigged and net of commission, with the book the bet was struck at left out of the vote. The figure carries its count and its interval: CLV +1.2% ±0.2% over 183 legs. The count is the entry fee; the interval is the test, and anything straddling zero is still early however many legs it has.
Run any strategy over past seasons at the prices that were up: six years of Australian and New Zealand racing on the exchange's own starting prices, and the sports seasons. The headline ROI comes with a bootstrap range under it, like −79.5% with −95.4% to −60.9%, because one number over a few hundred bets is not a result.
It is the first figure on Insights, above the money: Beating the close is the earliest honest sign; profit takes a thousand bets to tell. A model that cannot show it adds anything to the market's price prints no tickets at all and gives the reason.
The racing history is Betfair's starting price and nothing else, so a run over it carries its own warning: there is no mispricing to find with one column, and the starting price is the close, so there is no closing-line value either. The app says that on the run rather than leaving it to be worked out.
You copy the legs into your own bookie, or open that book's own page for the match or the race. Nothing here is an account and nothing here takes a deposit.
Two legs from the same game are not unrelated, so the real chance of both is nothing like the two prices multiplied. That gap is where the margin on a same-game multi lives. Nothing on Today is one.
Everything on the pad is still to start. An event under way is skipped and a ticket holding it is marked, rather than repriced against a game the app cannot see.
A key stays on your device. It is sent with a request, used once for that request, and never stored on our server. The Betfair login goes straight from the phone to Betfair and only the session token comes back.
The board is bought once a morning and shared, and a racing card is bought when you open the tab or pull to refresh. There is no polling, so an app left open costs nothing.
A refresh asks first, in the plain figures: "About 5 credits for today's racing card. 467 of 500 left this month." Testing a key is free, and Settings shows what is left after every fetch.
Your key, on your phone. You connect the accounts and the app reads them; there is no Legwork account holding a feed on your behalf.
Live odds from Australian bookmakers. Free 500 credits a month. This is the one key Legwork needs: without it there is no pad.
Australian and New Zealand racing, fourteen books on every runner. Free 1,500 credits a month, and about 1,200 of them is a full month of cards. Without it there is no racing card and nothing else changes.
The real market price, with no bookmaker margin in it. The free delayed key shows prices up to about three minutes old, which is plenty for a vote on what is fair. It works from the phone only: Betfair refuses requests from cloud servers.
Free AFL fixtures, results and a public model ensemble. No key needed, and nothing to set up. It settles AFL bets and feeds the Squiggle model.
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