Horse Racing Data Analyzer is a Python program that scrapes horse racing bookmaker and exchange data and combines this data with pre race morning hourly data. It then will analyse the data collected and produce 149 unique data points for every horse running in every race in the UK and Ireland.
These data points cover topics such as:
- Key time morning prices (currently 1am, 6am ,10am)
- Comparison of prices between different times and sources
- Non runner analysis
- Favourite and predicting position metrics
- Analysing result of races
The program will then export daily data csv files containing data from all racing that day.
Currently used sites (more to come):
- Python 3 (make sure to add Python to PATH/environment variables when installing)
- pandas 2.0.1 or newer
- Selenium 4.9.1 or newer
- Beautiful Soup 4.12.2 or newer
You can install the prerequisites double-clicking install_prerequesites.bat after installing Python 3.
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Horse Racing Data Analyzer can be installed by downloading the repository from the GitHub page
Follow the instructions for your operating system below.
Once you've installed the prerequisites, double click start_windows.bat. That's it. Bish
bash bosh.
Hourly data, stored in individual daily folders within the 'daily_data' folder will contain hourly prices scraped from the websites Sporting Life and Timeform. These will contain prices from all the major bookmakers as well as Betfair Exchange prices each hour for the 24 hours preceding the races start time. A program that collects this data can be found from the GitHub page.
The program will ask which date you want to analyse data from. This is done by asking for the year, month, day. NOTE ONLY THE DATE 2023, 7, 1 WILL WORK WITHOUT ADDITIONAL HOURLY DATA IMPORTED BY USER.
The program will then guide you through the rest of the process yourself.
Once exported, the daily data file will be stored in the 'daily_data' folder, as well as a master file named 'ALL' that will contain all data you have analysed.
Study of various price sources in the UK and Ireland horse racing markets
Study on the effect of price movements on market reliability in UK and Ireland horse racing markets
Horse Racing Data Analyzer is licensed under Licensed under MIT.
The data provided is property of https://www.sportinglife.com/, https://www.timeform.com/, https://www.betfair.com/ I don't own any of the data