Addressing win and place markets through variables. Lesson 2. BetFair betting bot - MarketFeeder Pro - triggered automated betting software

We are often asked the same question over and over again:

How to bet on the selection in Place market that is the favourite in Win market.

That is, there is no need to place any bets in Win markets: they just need to remember the favourite selection and either back or lay on that selection in Place market.

The word "remember" often baffles MF Pro users, as they think they need to create a trigger with the "remember" action, to record the favourite. However this approach is unnecessarily complicated in this case, as you will need more triggers to do the same thing. If you are curious how to do this, read until the end of the article.

My advice is: always use the tools that are invented specially for certain needs. In this case you need to connect win and place markets together, so do use the "winplace_" prefix that is designed exactly for this purpose!

You will need only one trigger to achieve that goal.

Let's look into it: I've selected "Place Markets" as "Markets" because that is where my trigger will actually place the bet. It does not matter that it will also check some parameters of the win market: what matters is where this trigger should perform its action.

For "Selection" I've chosen "First Matching Selection", although it could have been "All Matching Selections" as well, for there will be only one selection that will match the trigger's conditions.

The first trigger's condition needs to start with "Any Selection's", because of "First Match Selection" in the "Selections" field. The program needs some criteria to start filtering out selections. Since usually users ask to limit the price of the bet, I've added the condition "Any Selection's Back Price is less than 5". But if you don't need that condition, make it be always true, for instance "Any Selection's Back Price is greater than 0".

The second condition is the key one: it checks whether the rank (order) of the given selection is equal to 1 in the corresponding win market. The prefix "winplace_" in the variable "winplace_sel_order" tells MF Pro to look for the same selection in the opposite market, and evaluate the trigger variable for that selection.

So what the program does, step by step, is take all selections from the Place market whose price is less than 5.0. Then for each such selection it finds a match in the win market and check that selection's rank. Once it's found the favourite, it places the bet.

Right-click here to download the trigger file.

This is what you'll get in the end.

Win Market:

Place Market:

Pay attention to the fact that the selection may not be the favourite in the place market as well. In this example "Line Kendie" is the second favourite in the Place market, but MF Pro backed on it because it is the favourite in the Win market.

Complicated way to do this

Here's an example of a more complicated yet working way to achieve the same goals. Compare both examples and draw your own conclusions.

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