SMARTCROWD: UPDATE Golf: Ryder Cup Matches

September 22, 2006

UPDATE Golf: Ryder Cup Matches

Markets covering the Ryder Cup responded to the first day's action in Ireland by slashing "Team USA to Win" prices by almost 30% as Team Europe took a 5-3 lead on the first day at the K Club. Team Europe prices were marked up accordingly.

For latest news <click here>. For live leader board <click here>.

Prediction Markets

Tradesports: At the time of this entry, Team USA to Win dropped 11.7 points from 42.7 to 31, on 938 contracts today, taking the total contracts traded to 10,817. The current bid/ask spread is very tight with a bid of 30.6 and an ask of 30.9. Current prices are show below in the 24 hour snapshot chart.

Team USA to Win

At the time of this entry, Team Europe to Win was quoted with a last trade price of 69, with a total of 3,126 contracts traded. Current prices are show below in the 24 hour snapshot chart.

Team Europe to Win

Newsfutures: At the time of this entry, Team USA to Win also dropped, touching an low intra day of 21, before closing at 31. Total open volume at Newsfutures is 14,865 contracts. The current bid/ask spread is wide at 21 bid, 38 ask. Team Europe to Win is the opposite side of these propositions. Current prices for Team Europe to Win and Team USA to Win are show below in the 24 hour snapshot chart.

Team Europe to Win

Team USA to Win

Betting Markets

Oddschecker aggregates sports betting odds/prices. At the time of this entry, the best prices for Europe to Win was 4/7 against, while USA to Win was 2/1 on.

Weather permitting, tomorrow (Saturday) promises to bring another great day of golf. Fans worldwide with be glued to their wide screen plasmas, their web connections and internet radio.

Watch this space!

From the crew at SMARTCROWD.

Posted on September 22, 2006 at 11:13 PM in Sports | Permalink

Comments

The comments to this entry are closed.

SMARTCROWD Consensus Index

Updated December 1st, 2007
GOP NOM Thompson (F) 7.88% +
GOP NOM Romney 28.41% -
GOP NOM McCain 6.5% -
GOP NOM Giuliani 39.10% -
DEM NOM Edwards 8.63% +
DEM NOM Obama 22.71% -
DEM NOM Clinton 64.36% -
GOP President '08 37.74% +
DEM President '08 62.15% =

Terms & Conditions of Use

1. SMARTCROWD is a news and information site. It is a resource for collating information and insights about certain events of public interest, as well as providing insight for research about markets and information aggregation mechanisms. 2. SMARTCROWD is a not for profit concern. It is not a betting, gaming or gambling business or website, or an agent for any such business or site. 3. While all reasonable efforts are taken to ensure the information here is compiled in a responsible and accurate manner, neither SMARTCROWD or its contributors are responsible for any damage or loss suffered by any person or entity that relies on any information on this site, including without limitation, posts, comments left by third parties, sponsored messages, icons or information served up by social networking, advertizing or other third party applications or any websites or blogs or any information contained in websites or blogs that are immediately accessible from this website by way of a hyperlink. 4. SMARTCROWD reserves the right to make any changes to any entries on this site, when and as it deems appropriate. 5. The SMARTCROWD Index is compiled from prediction and information markets and from such other sources as SMARTCROWD chooses, where such information may, in a contributor's view, broaden the respresentation of the index. 6. Any views expressed on this site are those of contributors, not those of any entites they may be employed by from time to time.

November 2007