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Betting Rule Mapping
Q: What is betting rule mapping? A: Betting rule mapping converts football betting markets into a unified settlement table, showing whether each bet fully wins, half wins, pushes, half loses, or fully loses under each score.
Betting Rule Mapping
Q: What is betting rule mapping?
A: Betting rule mapping means writing each market rule in a form that a program can calculate.
Football markets look very different:
- Moneyline depends on home win, draw, or away win.
- Asian handicap depends on the adjusted goal difference.
- Over/under depends on total goals.
- Correct score depends on the exact final score.
If the model only sees market names, it cannot safely judge whether a group of bets covers all outcomes. So each rule must be converted into the same expression:
Under each possible score, how does this leg settle?
A common settlement code table is:
| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0 | Full loss |
| 50 | Half loss |
| 100 | Push |
| 150 | Half win |
| 200 | Full win |
For example, a home moneyline leg can be mapped as:
| Market | 0:0 | 0:1 | 1:0 | 1:1 | 2:1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home win | 0 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 200 |
This is not an odds table. It only says what the rule returns under each score.
Rule mapping is the first layer of arbitrage modeling. Without it, payout matrices, coverage checks, and stake solving have no reliable base.