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 carries the paired prices and liquidity that determine qualifying loss, so a tool computes and sorts the lowest-risk qualifiers with one line of maths at its own commission rate.
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