Odds API articles

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.