Pinnacle's XML feed doesn't support Propositions/Futures.

[Scooter]

When logged into Pinny, there are many items on the betting menu which are labeled as "Proposition/Future" on the upper left side of the actual betting page - for example, "NBA Futures".

Another way to identify these pages is that they lack the "Dynamic Lines" feature with auto updating, and instead have a "Update Lines" button on the top middle of the page for manual lines updating.

The XML feed apparently does not support such items. Or if it does, normal filtering for that sport does not capture these lines.

Has anyone found these on the XML feed? Anyone found a way to filter/capture them from the feed?

Or are they simply not included on the feed?

[aggieshawn]

pinny get working on this.

[Ganchrow]

The Pinnacle XML feed labels futures with a "sporttype" that differs from that of the underlying sport.

NBA futures, for example are labeled with sporttype of "NBA Futures" in the XML feed and a league (corresponding to "sportsubtype" in the query sting) that broadly describes the proposition itself.

So for example the multi-way market for the NBA Title Winner includes the following XML:

    <event_datetimeGMT>2010-10-25 19:00</event_datetimeGMT>
    <gamenumber>173477523</gamenumber>
    <sporttype>NBA Futures</sporttype>
    <league>Team to Win NBA Title 2010-11</league>
    <description>Who Will win the NBA Title?</description>

Pinnacle provides a list of sports and leagues that can be referenced within the query string using the sporttype and sportsubtype parameters. The "NBA Futures" subtype is not among those listed, however.

Nevertheless, dynamic odds for these markets do appear within the generic Pinnacle XML feed provided your query string specifies values for both "lastGame" and "lastContest" (or for just the "last" parameter -- but the documentation calls this usage deprecated) and omits "contest=no".

If you specify the sporttype without a value for either "last" or "lastGame"+"lastContest", however, then Futures/Prop odds won't (as far as I can tell) be included in the XML.

Now that said, there might be some exceptions and there might exist one or more sporttype query parameter values that do yield odds for certain future and/or prop markets, but if so they're apparently undocumented.

[Flight]

Thanks for the info. I am in a similar predicament as Scooter.

I have not been able to get any sporttype's to work that were not listed on Pinnacle's public list of sports and leagues.

For now I just grab the entire feed and filter the sporttype down manually. Disappointing to do it this way but that's all I can do. Really eats up bandwidth...

[Scooter]

Thanks for the input, Ganchrow.