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Guides and notes on building with the SockOdds API.

Categories: Guides · Odds API · Coverage · Prediction markets

• Odds Format Conversion: Decimal, American, Fractional, Asian: Formulas for every odds format, plus the rounding, float and averaging bugs that break odds conversion in real code. With worked numbers and a program.
• Rugby League World Cup Odds in the SockOdds API: The Rugby League World Cup and Women's World Cup in SockOdds API v1, covering league keys, NRL match ids, periods and how a draw after golden point settles.
• How to Build an Odds Comparison Site in Australia: The data model, the price checks and the Australian advertising and licensing rules behind a bookmaker odds comparison site, built on SockOdds API v1.
• Odds API Rate Limits: Credits, Objects and Requests Compared: How odds APIs meter usage (credits, objects or requests an hour), what an empty call costs, and a worked monthly polling budget with the sums shown.
• Rugby Union Odds API: Test Matches, Draws and Lines: Rugby union internationals in SockOdds API v1, with the league key, market types and periods, and how to handle draws, scoring and lines in your model.
• Live Sports Odds API: How Fresh Live Prices Really Are: What live means in a sports odds API, how old a price on your screen can be, polling versus WebSocket, rate limit maths and how to spot stale prices.
• Sports Betting API Explained: Which Kind You Need in Australia: The four kinds of sports betting API, which ones read prices and which place bets, and the Australian rules that shape what you can build with them.
• Scores and Odds API: Grading AFL and NRL Bets Against Official Results: How SockOdds API v1 grades bets from official results with outcome ids shared with prices, and how to handle AFL draws, extra time and NRL golden point.
• How to Remove the Bookmaker Margin: Devig Methods Compared: Calculate a bookmaker's overround from decimal odds, then strip it out with the multiplicative, additive, power and Shin methods, with worked examples.
• Every AFL Betting Market in the SockOdds API: The AFL market types in SockOdds API v1, from head to head, line and totals to goal kickers and disposals, with their keys, sides and periods.
• How to Query AFL Odds and Player Props: A short guide to AFL and AFLW prices in SockOdds API v1, from finding the next games to narrowing a request to the markets and bookmakers you show.
• Australian Bookmakers in One Odds API: Sportsbet, TAB, Ladbrokes, Neds and the rest: Which Australian bookmakers deliver prices through SockOdds API v1, the leagues each one covers, and how to compare them in one request.
• Common Odds API Questions, Answered for Australia: Short answers about SockOdds API v1, covering what it returns, how fresh prices are, decimal odds, history, results, the free plan and what it is not.
• What Are Consensus Odds and How to Calculate Them: How to turn the bookmaker prices SockOdds API v1 returns into a consensus price and a no-vig price, with a working program in JavaScript and Python.
• Cricket Odds API Guide: International Cricket and the IPL: How cricket sits in SockOdds API v1, from the league keys for international cricket and the IPL to the winner, result and batter runs markets.
• Every Premier League Betting Market in the SockOdds API: The English Premier League market types in SockOdds API v1, from the result and both teams to score to corners, cards and goalscorers.
• Getting Started with the SockOdds API: The shortest path from a free SockOdds key to real bookmaker prices in your code: one request, one price, and where to go next.
• Every MLB Betting Market in the SockOdds API: The MLB market types in SockOdds API v1, from the moneyline, run line and total to first five innings and batter and pitcher props.
• Every NRL Betting Market in the SockOdds API: The NRL market types in SockOdds API v1, from head to head, line and totals to total tries and try scorers, with their keys, sides and periods.
• How to Query NRL Odds and Try Scorer Props: A short guide to NRL prices in SockOdds API v1, from the league keys to head to head, line and try scorer requests that return only what you show.
• Player Prop Odds API Guide for Australian Sports: How player markets work in SockOdds API v1, from market keys and the subject field to N or more bets, with samples on the Rugby League World Cup.
• How SockOdds Handles Postponed, Delayed and Cancelled Events: What an event's status means in SockOdds API v1, what happens when a game moves, and how to keep your own records in step without guessing.
• Kalshi and Polymarket Prices Next to Australian Bookmakers: Prediction markets arrive in SockOdds API v1 as bookmakers with their own keys and decimal prices, so you can compare them with sportsbooks in one request.
• AI-Assisted Development with the SockOdds API: Build on SockOdds API v1 with an AI coding assistant: give it llms.txt, the OpenAPI contract and Markdown pages, and keep your key out of the chat.