Sports Market Observatory

Sports-market movement, visualized.

Sports Market Observatory tracks how betting markets change before games and turns those shifts into clear, timestamped visual stories. Get the free Weekly Market Trace every Sunday.

Repeated pre-game snapshots · Market-implied probability · Timestamped to start

Recent market visuals

What the market looked like before the game.

Recent examples show what moved, when it moved, and how much market coverage was captured.

Weekly Market Trace · Issue 0

World Series futures

The Dodgers held 28.8% of the market-implied championship field, while the top five represented 63.9%.

World Series futures probability field showing the Dodgers as the clear market favorite.

What we track

One clear market story at a time.

Pre-game probability movement

How aggregate market-implied chances shift before start time.

Market flips and tightening

When the leader changes, or a matchup moves toward a tighter field.

Futures probability fields

How championship probability mass moves across the field.

Three-outcome match-result fields

How win, draw, and opponent states change before start time.

How it works

How the trace is built.

We normalize prices across multiple books into aggregate implied probabilities, then chart how that consensus changes before start time.

Capture window 15h pre-game
Observations 93 snapshots
Market coverage 11 books
Time context Scheduled start
  1. 01Capture repeated observations before the scheduled start.
  2. 02Normalize prices into aggregate market-implied probability.
  3. 03Plot how consensus changes across the pre-game window.

The Sunday digest

Get the free Weekly Market Trace.

A concise Sunday look at pre-game movement, futures drift, and the market stories that stood out.

Each visual combines repeated market observations into a clear view of movement, timing, and coverage.