Placing bet on multiple horses in same race

[saki]

Hi,

New to the software.
Been trying out the excel triggered betting using the sample worksheet.

I had bets on 2 horses in the same race, one at BACK and the other at BACKSP.
Only the BACK trigger fired.

Have I made a mistake or can it not trigger more than 1 selection in the same race ?

[Captain Sensible]

Are you sure the BACKSP didn't fire? Did you satisfy the minimum BSP stake requirements of £2 for back bets?

[saki]

Yes, I was watching the grid on Betfair and had to place the bet manually.

Stake was well over £2.

Should the 2 selections have been consecutive and not been separated by other selections ?

[Captain Sensible]

Should the 2 selections have been consecutive and not been separated by other selections ?

Not sure what you mean by that? I've placed a mix of various triggers in one submission so it should have at least been placed, did you check the transaction logs to see if BET had lapsed for any reason like the odds you requested were outisde the returned SP?

If the API rejects a bet within a multile bet submission It's always rejected the whole lot when I've done them thru my own apps so would assume it did the same via Betting Assistant. I'd check the transaction log if you still have BA runing or check your lapsed/cancelled bets via the betfair website see if it didn't neet the criteria and was lapsed

[saki]

Should they be listed one after the other in excel, if in the same race ?

I did check the transaction log and only the BACK bet fired.

[Captain Sensible]

Should they be listed one after the other in excel, if in the same race ?

Do you mean like in Cells Q5 and Q6? Or do you mean after the BACK bet is fired a BACKSP then fired on the next refresh?

As long as all the trigger,stake and odds cells are completed fully you can send a single bet for each runner or cobination of runners at once

[saki]

There are 2 sheets in the "Place Bets" workbook; I enter the horses in the "Selections" sheet, so, cells A2 and A3 ?
I had them in A2 and A5 with selections in other races in the intervening cells.
Just wondered if that made a difference, but presumably it checks all the selections by name for each race, so that would rule it out ?

What would you enter in the "max odds" column if you only wanted it to check for min odds of 2.00 ?
Would you leave it blank or enter 0.00 or perhaps 1000.00 ?

[Captain Sensible]

K, I didn't know you were using that sheet, it checks all runners so wouldn't make any difference where they were on the list. You need to make sure the namme you type is the same as the way Betfair have typed the name for it to match, I odn't think the case matters but things like apostrophes etc can stop it from filling the data into the betting sheet. What horse did it miss, could it have been misspelt etc

I've never used the sheet so no idea how it works, with the BACKSP trigger the odds you specify in the odds column R are the lowest odds you'll accept. So if you're looking to only back horses under the odds of 2 you'd have to have a separate routine to check before placing your bet.

Just quickly looked at the sheet here viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3557

That sheet probably isnt the best to use for the BACKSP trigger as it seems to set the maximum odds to fire as the minimum odds you'll accept which goes against what you're trying to do. Think they were only ever put up as examples rather than fully formed bots and not with the BSP triggers in mind,.