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The Better Price / the check
Before you take an offer

Before you take an offer

Five figures decide what an uplifted price is worth, and four of them are printed in the conditions rather than beside the price. This page arranges them as a check that can be run in a minute on any offer.

Open the partner accountWhat the uplift is worth
Desk spec
figures to read
5
the uplift if it wins
5.00
the added value
2.00
share of a 10.00 stake
20.0%
share of a 100.00 stake
2.0%
prices reverted
14.4%
The uplift barsample B / three offered selections, market price against boosted price
selection one2.50 → 3.00+20.0%
selection two4.00 → 4.50+12.5%
selection three1.80 → 2.00+11.1%
the market price is the number the same selection carries everywhere else; the boosted price is what this offer quotes for it. Across the 540 single-selection boosts sampled the mean market price was 2.75 and the mean boosted price 3.17, a mean uplift of +15.3%, and the mean implied chance of the selection fell from 39.8% to 34.6%.
Direct answer

Five figures decide it: the market price, the boosted price, the chance both imply, the maximum qualifying stake, and the routes by which the price can revert. Read the cap before the price; the cap is what limits what the uplift can be worth.

The check, in the order the figures matter

  1. The market price. The number the same selection carries everywhere else. Without it the boosted price cannot be evaluated at all. On the sample: a mean of 2.75.
  2. The boosted price. The offer. On the sample: a mean of 3.17, a mean uplift of +15.3%.
  3. The implied chance. One divided by the boosted price, taken beside one divided by the market price. On the sample: 39.8% falling to 34.6%.
  4. The maximum qualifying stake. The most important figure on the offer and the least advertised. On the sample: a mean cap of 15.8, with 68.9% of offers capping at 10.00.
  5. The revert routes. The four conditions that take the price back: a changed selection, a resettled market, a changed slip, a declared error. On the sample they took 14.4% of boosts.

What the check turns into, in money

Worked example / the sampled mean offer, at two stake sizes

  1. market price 2.75, boosted price 3.17, uplift 0.42 of price
  2. implied chance at the market price: 1 / 2.75 = 36.4%
  3. the mean cap: 15.8
  4. a 15.8 stake, fully inside the cap: 15.8 x 0.42 x 0.364 = 2.42 added, 15.3% of the stake
  5. a 100.00 stake against the same cap: 15.8 x 0.42 x 0.364 = 2.42 added, 2.4% of the stake
  6. the difference between the rows: the stake, not the offer
The check ends in one number that does not move with the stake: 2.42 on the mean offer, whatever is placed above the cap.

The check as a list

  • Is the market price of this selection printed anywhere, or only the boosted price?
  • Is the qualifying stake stated, and is my stake inside it?
  • Is the uplift paid on the whole stake or on the first part of it?
  • Which markets are eligible, and is mine on the list?
  • Which routes take the price back, and does one of them apply to this selection?
  • Has the desk, or any page on it, told me whether to take the offer? It has not, and it will not.
Every figure in one placethe five steps and the ten samplesSix beliefs, checkedthe claims the arithmetic contradictsWhen the price goes backthe fifth figure, in full