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Which markets qualify

Which selections qualify

An offer names the selections it applies to, and the exclusions do more work than the inclusions. This page sets out the four ways a boosted selection stops being eligible, and how each one shows up in the sampled offers.

Desk spec
offers sampled
1,200
the price reverted
14.4%
a changed selection
34
a resettled market
22
not in the slip
14
palpable error
8
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

A boosted price applies to the selections and markets the offer names and to nothing else. A selection that is withdrawn or changed, a market that is resettled, a final slip that differs from the offer, or a declared error can each take the price back to the market one.

Four ways a qualifying selection stops qualifying

The exclusions are what the conditions are mostly made of. In the sample, 78 of 540 boosts were settled at the ordinary price and every one of them fell into one of four groups.

Sample G, why a boosted price was not paid
ReasonOffersShare of revertsWhat happened
a changed selection3443.6%a runner withdrawn, a player ruled out, a selection renamed
a resettled market2228.2%the market was taken down and repriced before the stake was placed
not in the slip1417.9%the final slip did not contain the boosted selection
a palpable error810.3%the operator declared the price a manifest mistake

Three of the four are ordinary market mechanics rather than traps. Only the fourth is a decision, and it is the only one an operator can make after the price has been shown.

What a reader can control, and what they cannot

  • Keep the boosted selection in the final slip; removing it removes the uplift without telling you.
  • Place the stake while the market is live; a resettled market can take the price back.
  • Assume a withdrawn or renamed selection reverts to the market price for whatever replaces it.
  • Treat a declared error as the one route with no reader-side control at all; it is the reason to read the reverts page before the price page.
  • Do not read an exclusion list as a warning about the operator. Exclusions are how a price survives contact with a changing market.
When the price goes backthe four routes in full, with the arithmeticThe uplift by number of legswhy a slip makes eligibility harder to keepThe maximum stakethe other field that decides what an offer is worth