Thanks to Michael Robb from BetFair, I can show you the charts of the last day of trading on Michigan’-s election day. You can see, on the Republican chart, Mitt Romney (in red) as the Comeback Kid —-starting at 3:00PM EST (that’-s 8:00 PM, British time, on the chart).
Here is the full, historical, compound chart that I already published:
Is that the Michigan primary, really? Bizarre.There is something I don’-t get. Compare with the InTrade charts.
Fat fingers at BetFair? Did they mess with the legend? Or is this compound chart about another primary? (Which one, then??) Bizarre, bizarre.
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TAKEAWAY ABOUT THE BETFAIR BLOG FIASCO:
- It looks bad for the BetFair blog editor, who pasted that compound chart on top of professor Leighton Vaughan-Williams’-s story. One week later, it is still impossible for me to comprehend what that compound chart is supposed to represent, and what it is doing on that page. Big mystery.
- It is a shame that the BetFair blog hasn’-t published an update note stating that that compound chart was pasted there by the editor (behind prof LVW’-s back) and explaining what the writer meant by “-betting markets”-. Still a puzzle.
- With all due respect to him, it looks bad on professor Leighton Vaughan-Williams for giving his writings to a corporate blog where the publisher and editor’-s names are not listed anywhere, and whose overall content quality is feeble —-to say the least.
- And, by the way, how come professor Leighton Vaughan-Williams’-s posts are always excluded from the general BetFair blog feed? Is that a technical glitch? Or is it by design? Bizarre.
- The BetFair blog is not a serious publication. Period. I wonder whether I should link again to it, in the future. Probably not.
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UPDATE: The BetFair blog has added a new label on the infamous compound chart…-
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NEXT: Did the BetFair blog use trading data from InTrade to hint at BetFair’-s accuracy??