oddsrelay/uk-bookmaker-prices-sample

UK and Irish bookmaker prices: a sample snapshot

One snapshot of pre-match prices from UK and Irish bookmakers, taken from the OddsRelay odds API. Two views of the same moment:

• raw_prices: the raw board, one row per price: each bookmaker's own markets, with outcomes named the way that bookmaker names them.
• matched_prices: the standard matched board, one row per bookmaker price, with every bookmaker's price on the same outcome under one name and the line (point) on line markets.
• events and bookmakers: the events (sport, competition, start time, sides, racecourse) and the bookmakers' names. Every table joins on event_id and bookmaker_key.

The same prices are in data/raw_board.json and data/standard_board.json in the API's own JSON shape. summary.md says when the snapshot was taken, how many events and prices it holds, and gives plain arithmetic on it, such as each bookmaker's margin on the soccer result market. DATA_DICTIONARY.md gives every column's type and meaning.

Load it

from datasets import load_dataset

prices = load_dataset("oddsrelay/uk-bookmaker-prices-sample", "raw_prices", split="train")
events = load_dataset("oddsrelay/uk-bookmaker-prices-sample", "events", split="train")

Or with pandas, from a copy of the files:

import pandas as pd

prices = pd.read_csv("data/raw_prices.csv").merge(pd.read_csv("data/events.csv"), on="event_id")

What it is not

• Not the whole feed. It is a sample: a few events per sport, a few markets per event.
• Not a coverage figure. Every count here (events, bookmakers, markets, prices), in summary.md and in every table, describes this one snapshot file. None of it measures what the OddsRelay feed covers.
• Not a time series. One snapshot, so no history, no closing prices and no results.
• Not exchange data. Bookmakers only: every exchange is left out, with every lay price and liquidity figure, and so is every venue under the Betfair name. Links to bookmakers' pages are left out too.
• Not advice. It is market data for building and analysis.

How it was made

snapshot.py in the GitHub repository read the API's raw board and standard matched board once each, for events scheduled to start in the following 24 hours, kept bookmaker prices only, picked a few events per sport (those on the matched board first, then those with the most bookmakers) and wrote these files. It can be run again with an API key to take a new snapshot.

Current prices

For current prices, use the OddsRelay API: sign up and copy your key from the dashboard. Free gives you 50,000 tokens for 14 days from sign-up, with no card, then no tokens until you choose a plan, on the same key. Docs: https://oddsrelay.io/docs

Licence

CC BY 4.0. Attribution: OddsRelay (https://oddsrelay.io).