In this article I will show you how to calculate simple things about the odds the bookmakers offer and how to play with them with the intention of using the real chance of each outcome to model a group of prices. Basically what we will do is the following: retrieve the odds of a horse race calculate the overround applied determine the true odds generate a new set of odds with the desired overround
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