Friday, November 10, 2006

Tennis trading and inplay scoreboards

Daily Result: £106.23

Had some time to look in on the WTA Championships from Madrid today and keep the wedding funds ticking over. Was particularly interested in checking out the first match of the day between Mauresmo and Henin Hardenne as another free trial was being provided by Inplay Scoreboards. I discussed the benefits of the service in my post on beating the betfair clock.

Once again the service provided the score for most points fractionally ahead of television pictures. There are still obviously people ahead of the scoreboard but it is a useful tool and I'm looking forward to seeing what is provided on other sports.

Unfortunately once again there was a bug when the match went to a tie break with the users being told it was match point Mauresmo when all she'd done is win the first point of the tiebreak. That said, the company behind the service sent out an immediate email acknowledging the problem, explaining the bug was related to tie breaks, their recent effort to fix it had failed, but it would be working properly before the next trial and the real product launch next year. I don't really have a problem with that. There's no way I'm going to bet on the back of the service while it's still being trialled without pictures anyway and I accept that in what is essentially a free Beta service there will be problems that need ironing out. And to be honest it was quite refreshing to get such a frank email - makes a change from being asked to delete cookies anyway! ;-)

Did ok in the match and then looked in on the Sharapova v Kuznetsova game. Sharapova dominated the first set to such an extent that Kuznetsova won just 9 points! Ended up £100 green on Sharapova but then a clicking error (backing at 1.02 instead of laying - Doh!) left me needing her to win. She did - but not until her price had gone back out to 1.09 - at which point I bailed leaving a smaller profit in the fear that if she lost another point or two I'd have been left with an all red situation.

Had a very quick look in at the start of the Clijsters v Dementieva match but couldn't really be bothered. Not the best frame of mind to be trading with. And being Friday night there's better things to do so I greened out for a few quid after a couple of minutes and left it.

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