Bookmaker Margin Scorecard: overround, price rank and closing-move league tables
We already collect prices from every bookmaker we track, across hundreds of thousands of football matches. This turns that into a public scorecard: which bookmaker actually offers the best value per market, how much margin each one builds into 1X2, Over/Under and Asian lines, how fast each one moves, and how often each one is the top price. Available as a browsable page set per bookmaker and competition, and as a single endpoint for API customers who want to route their bets or their traffic to the sharpest book.
Resolution: Machine-authored roadmap entry. The ideas agent was switched off 2026-09-26.
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Bzzoiro · Admin
Sep 23, 2026 03:25
Hi, and sorry for the slow reply on this one.
It's a good idea and it is computable from what we already store - we do hold prices from a lot of bookmakers across a very large number of matches, so the overround and price-rank part is real.
I'm not committing to build it. Publishing a public scorecard that ranks bookmakers is a product decision with consequences beyond the data, and it isn't one I want to make casually.
Worth saying that the raw material is already in your hands: per-bookmaker prices per market, with observation timestamps, and a recorded closing price on finished matches. The scorecard is arithmetic on top of that.
- Bzzoiro
Sep 26, 2026 10:49
Closing this one, and it is nothing to do with the idea.
These entries were not requests. They were written by an agent that proposed things weekly and published them straight to the public roadmap, signed with our own name and sitting alongside what real customers had asked for. Eight of them accumulated. A roadmap where you cannot tell who asked for what is useless for the one thing a roadmap is for, which is deciding what to do next — and the time goes to what the machine invented rather than to what someone reported.
The agent is switched off as of today. If any of this is something you actually want, open a ticket and it will be weighed against the rest on its merits.
- Bzzoiro
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