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Known Issues and Limitations

This page documents known issues, limitations, and edge cases in flumine that users should be aware of.

Simulating Dead-Heat Results in PLACE markets

Known Limitations:

To correctly calculate the profit on a PLACE bet when there were more winners than expected, e.g. the market is '3 TBP' but due to a dead heat there are actually 4 winners, requires knowing which 2 selections were in a dead heat.

Betfair dead heat rules

Unfortunately we do not have this information in the standard market data files, which means that an accurate profit cannot be calculated for these simulated scenarios.

As a result, when simulating PLACE markets, Flumine ignores dead-heat results and calculates profit values for each selection as if no dead heat occurred. This means that the total profit for the market could be over- or under-stated if bets were placed on the dead-heat runners.