Your Price: the price your own account is quoted
A selection has a price on the screen, and that price is not necessarily the price your account is offered. This desk is about the second one: where a quote comes from, the four mechanisms that move it away from the market price, what stake size does to it, when it stops existing, and which of the two prices actually governs the bet.
- samples
- 10 invented
- accounts quoted
- 120
- market price
- 1.90
- quoted range
- 1.88-2.00
One selection, one market price of 1.90, and one hundred and twenty accounts quoted in a month across five levels from 1.88 to 2.00. The accent tick is the market price, which 42 of the 120 accounts were offered; the lowest tick is the only level below it; and the three positive ticks above it carry 70 of the 120 accounts between them. The spread between the two ends is 6.4% in price terms, and on a 25.00 stake it is 3.00 of potential return.
Two accounts, one bet, one moment. The selection is the same, the market price shown to both is the same, and the stake is the same; the price quoted to each account is not. The whole difference is 0.12 of price - a spread of 6.4% between the two ends of the sample - and on the same 25.00 stake it is 3.00 of potential return. The margin line is the same 0.12 expressed against the market price, which is the form that shows how small a price difference looks in odds and how large it looks in money.
Two prices exist on one selection: the market price shown beside the bet, and the price your own account is quoted. On the samples they were frequently not the same - one selection with a market price of 1.90 was quoted to 120 accounts across five levels from 1.88 to 2.00, a spread of 6.4% and 3.00 of potential return on a 25.00 stake.
What the samples show
The desk's central figure is one selection in one month. The market price was 1.90 on every screen, and the 120 accounts that took the bet were quoted at five different levels between 1.88 and 2.00. The spread between the two ends is 6.4% in price terms; on a 25.00 stake the same bet returns 47.00 at one end and 50.00 at the other, a difference of 3.00.
Two findings do most of the work. First, the market price is not a price the operator is obliged to give anyone: it is a displayed price, and the quote is an offer. Second, a price is not one number with one cause; on the samples the whole spread is explained by four mechanisms - the stake band, the account segment, the capped price, and the price the reader chose for themselves - and three of the four are decisions the reader can influence.
None of the samples describes a real operator, product, account or market. They are ten invented sets of counts, bands, tiers and durations, defined on this page, and every other figure on the site is derived from them.
Ten samples
One selection quoted to 120 accounts across five levels.
- market price
- 1.90
- range
- 1.88-2.00
- spread
- 6.4%
What explains each of the 120 quotes.
- stake band
- 46
- segment
- 31
- capped price
- 27
- chosen price
- 16
Five bands and the price each was quoted.
- bands
- 5
- bottom
- 1.86
- top
- 1.98
Five tiers and the price each was quoted.
- tiers
- 5
- new
- 1.90
- hosted
- 1.98
A headline price with a condition and a cap.
- headline
- 2.20
- market
- 1.90
- max stake
- 10.00
Three prices a reader may pick, each with its own ceiling.
- prices
- 1.70 / 1.90 / 2.10
- max stakes
- 100 / 50 / 20
- max returns
- 170 / 95 / 42
What the spread is worth across the 120 quotes.
- staked
- 3,000.00
- mean deviation
- +0.0235
- in money
- 70.50
Which of the two prices governs a disputed bet.
- disputes
- 100
- receipt governed
- 100
- headline governed
- 0
Two further samples are defined on the pages that use them: sample I on when a quote stops existing, and sample J on the reader's own four-number check.
The five levels in one table
The clearest place to start is the distribution itself, because it answers the question a reader actually has: is my price unusual?
| Quoted price | Accounts | Share | Return on 25.00 | What the level is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.88 | 8 | 6.7% | 47.00 | the only level below the market price |
| 1.90 | 42 | 35.0% | 47.50 | the market price, which is the modal quote |
| 1.92 | 34 | 28.3% | 48.00 | a small improvement on the displayed price |
| 1.95 | 26 | 21.7% | 48.75 | a level reached on stake size or tier |
| 2.00 | 10 | 8.3% | 50.00 | the top of the sample, reached on a condition |
| one selection | 120 | 100.0% | 47.00-50.00 | five levels, one market price |
The quote against the market price
The second figure is the one that decides whether any of this matters in money rather than in odds.