Results and odds
How virtual racing results and odds work
Customers ask shop staff two questions about virtual racing: who decides the winner, and are the odds real. This page answers both, in plain terms, so a shop can answer them too.
Odds are fixed before the race
Every runner carries a win price and a place price, printed on the board before betting opens. The price you take is the price your ticket settles at. Prices do not move after your bet the way an in-play market does.
Shorter prices mean the runner wins more often across many races. A 2.93 favourite and a 26.12 outsider are not decoration: over enough races, results land in line with the prices.
Dashing Derby
Next race| Draw number | Runner | Last 5 | Win | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ridge Runner | 1,3,2,1,4 | 3.40 | 1.65 |
| 2 | Golden Hour | 2,5,1,4,3 | 5.00 | 1.95 |
| 3 | Storm Petrel | 6,4,7,2,5 | 7.50 | 2.50 |
| 4 | Quick Verdict | 3,1,5,2,2 | 4.20 | 1.80 |
| 5 | Lantern Bay | 8,6,4,9,7 | 11.00 | 3.40 |
A racecard as the cashier front prints it: draw, form, win and place.
The result is random, per race
Each race is decided by the engine when the race runs. No one in the shop, and no one at SportLogic, picks the winner of a race. The video shows the result the engine produced, and the same result settles every ticket on that race.
One race does not remember the last one. A runner that just won is not due to lose, and a long losing run on a favourite is normal over a short sample. The board shows each runner's last five finishes so customers can see form for themselves.
One settlement for everyone
When a race finishes, one settlement is written: win, place, forecast and tricast. The cashier screen, the back office and the data API all read that same settlement. There is no version of the result for the shop and another for anyone else.
That is also why disputes are short. The ticket names the race, the board shows the result, and the ledger shows the payout line the moment it settled.
Settled events and the cash summary, reading from the same settlement.
Frequently asked questions
- Are virtual races fixed?
- No. The result of each race is produced by the engine at race time, nobody in the chain picks winners, and the same result settles every ticket. Fixed odds, random results, one settlement.
- Can the shop change the odds?
- No. Prices come from the engine with the racecard. A shop cannot shade a price against its own customers, which is also a protection for the shop: every shop on the platform sells the same board.
- Why did the favourite lose five times in a row?
- Because short samples are noisy. A favourite at 2.93 loses most individual races and still wins more than anything else over hundreds of races. The last-five column exists so customers can see runs for what they are.
- Do results on the screen and in the API ever differ?
- No. Both read the same settlement record, written once when the race finishes.
More for shop operators
- Virtual sports for betting shopsWhat a shop gets, what it needs on the counter, and what it costs to start.
- Virtual sports as a second terminalFor a shop that already runs virtual games and does not want to switch anything off.
- Virtual sports with no hardware in the shopRaces arrive as video, so there is no machine to buy, install or replace.
- White-label virtual sports platformYour brand and your domain on the same platform and the same games.
- Virtual sports agent networkFor agents and sub-distributors signing shops in their own area.
- How a betting shop earns on virtual racingThe ticket lifecycle, hold, and why continuous racing drives turnover. With example figures.
- What virtual sports software costsRevenue share, fixed fees and hardware rental explained, and what costs nothing here.
Watch it settle live
Open the demo and watch races run and settle in the browser. Nothing to install.