Betfair 'delay'

[Grasshopper]

No, not the ‘live’ pictures, but the "Your bet will be processed in xx seconds" message I sometimes encounter. Can anyone explain why this happens during In-Running?

They undoubtedly have a need for some form of queueing mechanism, but is anyone familiar with the criteria that is used e.g. size of stake?

Ta
Grass

[Ultimate Nightmare]

What’s a couple of seconds in a twenty minute race

[Drone]

Other than a weakness for placing ponies on C Montgomerie in The Open I’ve no experience of in-play betting, but this is from the Betfair Help Glossary:

Delays

In some in-play markets, time-delays are used to ensure that people are given an opportunity to cancel unmatched bets when a major event happens, such as a goal being scored. This delay is also designed to protect customers in the event of broadcast signal delay.

[Grasshopper]

Seems fairly laughable as a policy statement, Drone – particularly the bit about ‘protecting customers from broadcast signal delays! – but cheers for marking my card anyway.

[Mounty]

In the old days of in-running on football matches the delay was only about 1 or 2 seconds (I think, though am prepared to be corrected). This allowed shrewd punters to go to the live matches and lay team A if team B had a penalty, a man sent off or score a goal etc. With horse racing the delay is only 1 second, even though there are track players approx 1.5 seconds ahead of those watching on SIS. Anyone who tried to take advantage of the last-fence fallers at Hereford yesterday will know what I’m talking about. Personally, as an in-running punter I’d be happy to play on a level playing field and pitch my judgement against anyone’s.

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