Glossary
Qualifying loss
Qualifying loss is the small, expected loss from placing a matched back-and-lay bet, before any free bet or promotion value is added.
When a back price and a lay price are not identical, covering both sides costs a little — the qualifying loss. A good oddsmatcher minimises it by finding selections where back and lay are closest.
A matched feed computes qualifying loss per opportunity, so a tool can sort and present the lowest-risk qualifiers without recalculating it.
OddsRelay delivers this as part of one already-matched feed. See live coverage on the coverage dashboard.