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fred77
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I couldn't find a suitable thread so thought I'd start one.

I came across http://abstractgeneratorfactory.blogspot.com/ today which I haven't seen before. I'm not sure if it belongs to one of you here. It's the blog of a professional software developer who is currently trying his hand at building bots. It's well written and he has included lots of details about his quest so far, and is very open about his approach, problems, ideas, and goals. He hasn't quite got there yet but I'm sure he will. I found it very good seeing things from somebody else's perspective.

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04th September 01:01 a.m.
jpl
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Yes, I've been reading the abstractgenerator blog with interest.  The guy who writes it doesn't seem to have a betting background, and his thinking about bots doesn't seem to reference any of the normal betting concepts (overrounds, probabilities, values etc).  Instead his approach seems to be based purely on importing technical analysis techniques from the financial world.  It seems a bit crazy to me frankly, but refreshingly different, and I'm interested to see how he gets on.  (And look forward to stealing his ideas if they work!)

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04th September 11:16 a.m.
denp
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Here's another one that might be of interest - some academics have been looking betfair too:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Eball1647/Goal%20Arrival.pdf
This paper looks at market efficiency in soccer betting - trying to see whether the impact of a goal being scored is absorbed immediately.
Not sure there's anything astonishing in here, but worth a quick read. But I don't know why the drift towards 1.0 of the current score (as being the final result) over time is less than obvious to the academic community.

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04th September 19:38 p.m.
denp
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still haven't got the hang of this interweb thingy

http://www.econ.ox.ac.uk/students/james.reade/MarketEfficiencyPaper.pdf

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04th September 19:42 p.m.
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