TheBetEngine - New Release (version 2.6.4.1)
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:11 am
A new version of TheBetEngine has just been released. Upgrading is recommended.
To update your existing version, you should follow these simple instructions:
1. Close down the existing copy of TheBetEngine (if it is running).
2. Wait 1 minute (to allow all files to be saved) then reboot your machine to ensure that no errant processes are still running.
3. Download the new release from http://www.betdynamics.com/downloads/Th ... .6.4.1.exe
4. Double-click on the newly downloaded file to start the installation (you can safely install this version on top of the existing version)
Additions
1. New Option - Oddschecker (General/Advanced tab). When using live odds from Oddschecker, the default is to take the Averaged Odds from the major bookies. You can now specify a single bookie instead (so you can always take the Bet365 price, or the Paddy Power price). All major bookies are supported.
2. New Option - Linked Bets (General/Advanced tab). Whilst TBE is designed to allow individual tabs to operate independently, there are odd occasions where you want them to be linked. The Linked Bets option allows you to link two or more tabs such that a bet on a particular selection can only appear on one tab.
3. New Option - Duplicates (General/Options tab). If selections are named more than once in a selections file then, if the Duplicates option is ticked, the number of units for the bet is automatically increased. For example, if Black Caviar was listed three times in the selection file, then a 3 unit bet would be placed on Black Caviar.
4. New Option - Skip InPlay (General/Options tab). Allows you to set a time limit for InPlay bets after which a bet will NOT be placed.
5. New Option - Filter by Horse Weight (Filters tab). Allows you to set Min/Max allowable weights for horse selections.
6. New Option - DSLR Rank (Filters tab). This allows you to specify the allowable ranking for DSLR. DSLR is ranked in ascending order. You can specify a single value (e.g. 1) or a range (e.g. 3-4)
7. New Option - FC Odds (Filters tab) can be retrieved from either Sporting Life or Racing Post (RP forecast odds are only available after 09:30). These can be set on an individual tab basis.
8. New Option - FC Odds Movement (Filters tab) can now be measured as a % (in addition to being measured as a pure odds movement)
9. New Option - Use Odds setting of BSURE (Bet tab). Allows you to specify that a bet should be placed at X ticks lower (or higher for lay bets) than the BSP odds. Can only be used InPlay.
10. New Option - Use Odds setting of BPROFIT (Bet tab). Allows you to specify that a bet should be placed at X ticks higher (or lower for lay bets) than the BSP odds. Can only be used InPlay.
11. New Option - Snapshot2 can now be set to BSP (Snapshot tab). This allows the BSP odds to be used when calculating steamers/drifters.
12. New Plugin - HighestBackOdds - return the specified number of selections that have the highest back odds.
13. New Plugin - HighestLayOdds - return the specified number of selections that have the highest lay odds.
14. Specifying a negative bet time when Enable InPlay is ticked, will mean that the bet will not be placed until X seconds AFTER the actual start of the race.
15. Hiding races now correctly displays the place market as well as the win market when E/W betting is enabled.
16. Rollover to New Day is now only allowed after 20:30 (when certain data is available to TBE).
17. Added the ability to test a sound file (Settings/Sounds) to ensure that it is compatible.
18. LoadSelectionsFromFile plugin - updated with new option to adjust times. If the selections are given with race times such as 2:30 instead of 14:30 then they can be automatically adjusted by ticking the new option.
19. LoadSelectionsFromURL plugin - updated with new option to adjust times. If the selections are given with race times such as 2:30 instead of 14:30 then they can be automatically adjusted by ticking the new option.
20. LoadSelectionsFromFile plugin - updated to correctly deal with courses with bracketed extensions (for example, Kempton (A.W)) and to handle course variants better (for example, Epsom v Epsom Downs)
21. LoadSelectionsFromURL plugin - updated to correctly deal with courses with bracketed extensions (for example, Kempton (A.W)) and to handle course variants better (for example, Epsom v Epsom Downs)
22. LowestBackOdds plugin - updated to allow a specified number of selections to be returned.
23. LowestLayOdds plugin - updated to allow a specificed number of selections to be returned.
Fixes
1. Bookie Odds (OC) did not fall back to Betfair odds under certain failure conditions.
2. Snapshot1 time kept being saved 1 hour earlier each time TBE was turned off (caused by the move to BST)
3. TBE did not always shutdown at the specified time when using the Shutdown feature under Settings.
4. Corrected the labelling of the Dutch Type options when Laying (they were the wrong way round!)
5. Using an incompatible sound file could throw and exception and prevent race results from being received correctly!
6. Corrected some commentary messages (there is still some way to go with these and they will be improved over the coming releases)
7. Overall profit/loss was incorrectly cleared down each day if a combined P/L was displayed.
8. A market could be settled twice if the results source was changed between the inferred winner being deteced and the actual winner being published.
9. Fibonacci staking could be incorrect towards the end of the sequence (if Reset on Win was NOT ticked)
Changes
1. The horse flags (Filters tab) have been reworked and you can now specify Exact or Inexact (Contains) matches. The filters can also be negated.
2. FC Odds Movement (Filters tab) have been reworked to allow both positive and negative movements to be individually specified.
3. Course Types have been renamed from Turf, Jumps, AW to Flat, NH and AW.
4. Course Types are now loaded at a race level (in addition to a Course level). This means that if there is a mixed meeting where some races are run on the Flat and some races are run on the AW, then TBE will correctly identify the different types (previously course type was only recognised at a meeting level). If the race-level course types are not avaialable then TBE will revert to using the meeting-level types.
5. Filtering by Race Class is now properly built in to the Events tab and the Race Grid will only show races with the correct classes (previous all races were shown and betting was disabled if the race was the wrong class).
6. Carry Forward Losses has been renamed Carry Forward Staking.
7. Carry Forward Counts has been renamed Carry Forward Limits and moved to the Limits group box.
8. Added a confirmation dialog when loading new settings.
9. Added a confirmation dialog when using the Omit Odds Check option.
10. The currently active tab now has its name shown in bold text (so that it is more visible).
Known issues with any new release will be posted at http://www.thebetengine.co.uk/knownissues.htm - please check on this page before reporting any new issues.
If you use any custom-built plugins, please contact me for updated versions. The current versions will NOT work with this release of TheBetEngine.
Alistair
To update your existing version, you should follow these simple instructions:
1. Close down the existing copy of TheBetEngine (if it is running).
2. Wait 1 minute (to allow all files to be saved) then reboot your machine to ensure that no errant processes are still running.
3. Download the new release from http://www.betdynamics.com/downloads/Th ... .6.4.1.exe
4. Double-click on the newly downloaded file to start the installation (you can safely install this version on top of the existing version)
Additions
1. New Option - Oddschecker (General/Advanced tab). When using live odds from Oddschecker, the default is to take the Averaged Odds from the major bookies. You can now specify a single bookie instead (so you can always take the Bet365 price, or the Paddy Power price). All major bookies are supported.
2. New Option - Linked Bets (General/Advanced tab). Whilst TBE is designed to allow individual tabs to operate independently, there are odd occasions where you want them to be linked. The Linked Bets option allows you to link two or more tabs such that a bet on a particular selection can only appear on one tab.
3. New Option - Duplicates (General/Options tab). If selections are named more than once in a selections file then, if the Duplicates option is ticked, the number of units for the bet is automatically increased. For example, if Black Caviar was listed three times in the selection file, then a 3 unit bet would be placed on Black Caviar.
4. New Option - Skip InPlay (General/Options tab). Allows you to set a time limit for InPlay bets after which a bet will NOT be placed.
5. New Option - Filter by Horse Weight (Filters tab). Allows you to set Min/Max allowable weights for horse selections.
6. New Option - DSLR Rank (Filters tab). This allows you to specify the allowable ranking for DSLR. DSLR is ranked in ascending order. You can specify a single value (e.g. 1) or a range (e.g. 3-4)
7. New Option - FC Odds (Filters tab) can be retrieved from either Sporting Life or Racing Post (RP forecast odds are only available after 09:30). These can be set on an individual tab basis.
8. New Option - FC Odds Movement (Filters tab) can now be measured as a % (in addition to being measured as a pure odds movement)
9. New Option - Use Odds setting of BSURE (Bet tab). Allows you to specify that a bet should be placed at X ticks lower (or higher for lay bets) than the BSP odds. Can only be used InPlay.
10. New Option - Use Odds setting of BPROFIT (Bet tab). Allows you to specify that a bet should be placed at X ticks higher (or lower for lay bets) than the BSP odds. Can only be used InPlay.
11. New Option - Snapshot2 can now be set to BSP (Snapshot tab). This allows the BSP odds to be used when calculating steamers/drifters.
12. New Plugin - HighestBackOdds - return the specified number of selections that have the highest back odds.
13. New Plugin - HighestLayOdds - return the specified number of selections that have the highest lay odds.
14. Specifying a negative bet time when Enable InPlay is ticked, will mean that the bet will not be placed until X seconds AFTER the actual start of the race.
15. Hiding races now correctly displays the place market as well as the win market when E/W betting is enabled.
16. Rollover to New Day is now only allowed after 20:30 (when certain data is available to TBE).
17. Added the ability to test a sound file (Settings/Sounds) to ensure that it is compatible.
18. LoadSelectionsFromFile plugin - updated with new option to adjust times. If the selections are given with race times such as 2:30 instead of 14:30 then they can be automatically adjusted by ticking the new option.
19. LoadSelectionsFromURL plugin - updated with new option to adjust times. If the selections are given with race times such as 2:30 instead of 14:30 then they can be automatically adjusted by ticking the new option.
20. LoadSelectionsFromFile plugin - updated to correctly deal with courses with bracketed extensions (for example, Kempton (A.W)) and to handle course variants better (for example, Epsom v Epsom Downs)
21. LoadSelectionsFromURL plugin - updated to correctly deal with courses with bracketed extensions (for example, Kempton (A.W)) and to handle course variants better (for example, Epsom v Epsom Downs)
22. LowestBackOdds plugin - updated to allow a specified number of selections to be returned.
23. LowestLayOdds plugin - updated to allow a specificed number of selections to be returned.
Fixes
1. Bookie Odds (OC) did not fall back to Betfair odds under certain failure conditions.
2. Snapshot1 time kept being saved 1 hour earlier each time TBE was turned off (caused by the move to BST)
3. TBE did not always shutdown at the specified time when using the Shutdown feature under Settings.
4. Corrected the labelling of the Dutch Type options when Laying (they were the wrong way round!)
5. Using an incompatible sound file could throw and exception and prevent race results from being received correctly!
6. Corrected some commentary messages (there is still some way to go with these and they will be improved over the coming releases)
7. Overall profit/loss was incorrectly cleared down each day if a combined P/L was displayed.
8. A market could be settled twice if the results source was changed between the inferred winner being deteced and the actual winner being published.
9. Fibonacci staking could be incorrect towards the end of the sequence (if Reset on Win was NOT ticked)
Changes
1. The horse flags (Filters tab) have been reworked and you can now specify Exact or Inexact (Contains) matches. The filters can also be negated.
2. FC Odds Movement (Filters tab) have been reworked to allow both positive and negative movements to be individually specified.
3. Course Types have been renamed from Turf, Jumps, AW to Flat, NH and AW.
4. Course Types are now loaded at a race level (in addition to a Course level). This means that if there is a mixed meeting where some races are run on the Flat and some races are run on the AW, then TBE will correctly identify the different types (previously course type was only recognised at a meeting level). If the race-level course types are not avaialable then TBE will revert to using the meeting-level types.
5. Filtering by Race Class is now properly built in to the Events tab and the Race Grid will only show races with the correct classes (previous all races were shown and betting was disabled if the race was the wrong class).
6. Carry Forward Losses has been renamed Carry Forward Staking.
7. Carry Forward Counts has been renamed Carry Forward Limits and moved to the Limits group box.
8. Added a confirmation dialog when loading new settings.
9. Added a confirmation dialog when using the Omit Odds Check option.
10. The currently active tab now has its name shown in bold text (so that it is more visible).
Known issues with any new release will be posted at http://www.thebetengine.co.uk/knownissues.htm - please check on this page before reporting any new issues.
If you use any custom-built plugins, please contact me for updated versions. The current versions will NOT work with this release of TheBetEngine.
Alistair