Each Way Horse Racing Terms

[WillanJ]

Is there any way to deduce the terms of an each way horse racing market via the API? (e.g. 1/4 odds, 4 places)

It's displayed on the market on the web but I can't see any sign of the information anywhere via the API.

It generally seems to be 1/4 odds for two and four place markets and 1/5 odds for three place market but not always (there are some three place markets with 1/4 odds today for instance).

Thanks in advance for any help.

[BetfairDeveloperProgram]

Hi WilanJ,

The place terms are currently returned via the API but there is some guidance in the API documentation which advises how you can determine this. Please see https://api.developer.betfair.com/se...EachWayBetting

Kind Regards

Neil

[geoffw123]

This is implemented badly !!

Hello

It just occurred to me that this new each way market is going to cause a fairly nasty headache for App writers.

To be able to calculate the Profit loss figure for the 3 possibilities of Win, place or fail to place you need to know the odds divisor.

This odds divisor is not available in the downloaded "Each Way" market data.

To determine if the race is a 'Handicap' via the API you will need to parse the marketName returned by the corresponding 'WIN' market for the Handicap (‘Hcap’) abbreviation

To figure our P/L figure by having to download a different Market entirely and then messs about trying to parse a string to figure out if the race is a handicap is a horrible solution.

Maybe I have misunderstood this new market ?

Could Betfair Support please comment on this issue, and reconsider somehow adding this missing divisor to the E/W market data please ?

Regards Geoff

[Fibber2]

In my experience parsing the market name for 'Hcap' is not 100% accurate. I'd say about 5 times a year you will get a race that turns out to be a handicap, that didn't have Hcap in the name.

Look out for the national this weekend - that race has never had Hcap in the name before. I've always had to manually change that one in my application.

[BetfairDeveloperProgram]

Hi All,

We plan to add the each way divisor as a specific API field as part of a release before the end of April. This item has now been added to the published API roadmap via https://api.developer.betfair.com/se...+-+to+May+2015

Thanks

Neil