{"id":7468,"date":"2013-01-23T22:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2015-02-01T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T13:13:09","slug":"visualising-sports-tradin-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/01\/23\/visualising-sports-tradin-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualising sports trading data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You may have noticed my regular theme of visualising data. Why do I do this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason is simple, it&#8217;s easy to pick up patterns when you are looking at them visually. If you have to plough through billions of rows of spreadsheets, pivot tables or outputs from a database, you may find some of the more obvious patterns may elude you due to number blindness. Visualise it and it often leaps right out at you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bet Angel contains a number of tools that allow you to do this by making it easy to collect, store and analyse data across multiple markets. I use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betangel.com\/guardian\/\">Guardian<\/a> the it&#8217;s multi market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betangel.com\/excel\/\">spreadsheet<\/a> capability to gather data as I trade. Using Guardian you can do this on many markets at once and even on markets on which you are not currently active. You could be trading a horse race and collecting data on Tennis match for example. I&#8217;ve done this for many years and have built up a valuable database of detailed information about the way markets act and why they act that way. I&#8217;d recommend you do the same, there are plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betangel.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=19\">example spreadsheets on the forum<\/a>\u00a0which you can use to build your own tool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is something that you should find interesting, the visualisation on Almagro from the Ferrer vs Almagro match in the Australian open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/01\/23\/visualising-sports-tradin-data\/almagro\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7470\" alt=\"Almagro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Almagro.png\" width=\"619\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Almagro.png 619w, https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Almagro-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Almagro-600x460.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_7468\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"7468\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=betangel\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed my regular theme of visualising data. 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