Lay Starting Price Error
Timmyy22 opened this issue · 3 comments
Laying on a horse with starting price like this
placeOrders(
marketId = market_id,
selectionId = runners[1,]$selectionId,
betSide = "LAY",
betSize = "2",
betType = "MARKET_ON_CLOSE"
)
throws the error "INVALID_BET_SIZE". Backing the horse runs normally. I read that another person in 2017 had the same problem, but I already updated the newest version...
Apologies it's taken me a while to reply. Unfortunately, the reply is to say that I don't have an answer for you. I haven't had a chance to look at this library for a while, nor this specific bug. I will try to do so in the coming weeks.
While researching something else today I found this in the rules & regulations:
"The minimum liability for a bet placed at Betfair SP is £10 for a lay bet and £2 for a back bet (or the currency equivalent in each case)."
It was in section "9. Rules for Betfair Starting Price".
So, abettor was behaving correctly in rejecting this bet as it was below the minimum BSP liability size. Based on this information, both this issue and issue #18 can be closed.
As far as I can see the function works as intended within the limits of Betfair rules. Thanks @Soccerama for investigating.