See What the Orbit Betting Exchange Menu Lists, Sport by Sport
Twenty-seven entries on the menu, from Soccer to Volleyball. Some are not sports at all.
The menu of the Orbit betting exchange lists 27 entries: Soccer, Cricket, Tennis, American Football, Australian Rules, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Chess, Cycling, Darts, Esports, Gaelic Games, Golf, Greyhound Racing, Handball, Horse Racing, Ice Hockey, Mixed Martial Arts, Motor Sport, Netball, Politics, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Snooker, Special Bets and Volleyball. Horse Racing and Greyhound Racing each have a Today’s Card besides. The way in is a broker account. Below, the rules on orbitexch.com are read against that menu, and a note shows where competitions sit.
The menu, entry by entry
A list of names tells you little. What the rules do with them is where the detail sits.
The rules on orbitexch.com have a section named for 19 of the 27 entries (17 sections: Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts share one, and so do the two rugby codes). One line from each entry follows, in the order of the list above. The Orbit Exchange overview groups the same entries into families; here they come one at a time.
- Soccer (football): a match not started by 23:59 local time on its scheduled date has all bets voided, unless it is known to have been rescheduled to a date within three days of the original one.
- Cricket: a match shortened by weather settles on the official result, Duckworth Lewis included for limited-overs games.
- Tennis: if a player retires or is disqualified before one full set has been completed, every bet on that match is void; once a set is done, the player who goes through to the next round, or wins the final, is deemed the winner. Separately, bets stand through a change of venue, surface included.
- American Football: overtime counts, unless a market says otherwise. If the game is still tied after it, the outright match winner market is void.
- Australian Rules: overtime is left out, except in Finals matches, where it counts unless the market information says otherwise.
- Baseball: the section is written for the MLB, the World Baseball Classic and Japanese baseball only, and there “Total runs” and “Run line” bets are void unless nine innings are completed, or eight and a half when the home side leads, apart from markets already determined without condition.
- Basketball: a match that starts and is later abandoned or postponed needs, within three days of its start date, 43 minutes of play in the NBA and 35 in any other match, or an official result from the governing body; otherwise the bets are void.
- Boxing: a disqualified boxer is deemed the loser.
- Cycling: where there is a presentation ceremony, markets settle on the official result at the time of the ceremony.
- Any reason will do. A Darts match that is not completed voids the bets on its match odds market.
- Golf: in tournament bets, a player who starts and then withdraws or is disqualified before the end is settled as a loser, and bets on a player who does not start are void.
- Greyhound Racing: “Trap challenge” markets rest on which trap produces the most winners during a race meeting, unless the market information says otherwise.
- Horse Racing: individual race markets are decided on the official result at the “weigh-in” announcement or its equivalent; later disqualifications and appeals are disregarded.
- Ice Hockey: “Regular Time” markets leave overtime out, “Moneyline” markets count it with any shootout, and “Puck Line” is the handicap for NHL matches.
- Mixed Martial Arts: a fight declared a no contest, a draw or a technical draw voids every bet on it.
- Motor Sport: a race abandoned with no official result voids its bets, bar markets already determined without condition; in a head-to-head, whoever finishes ahead or completes more laps wins.
- Rugby League: in a “time of first try” market, a try scored in the second half makes the first half count as 40 minutes, stoppage time or not.
- The same section covers Rugby Union, so the 40-minute rule above is written once for both codes.
- Snooker: if a match starts and does not finish, the player progressing to the next round, or the one declared winner in a final, is deemed the winner.
In these lines, void is the outcome the rules name most often.
How commission is charged covers what comes off a win.
The other eight entries
Count two documents and the totals differ. The menu has 27 entries, and the rules carry sections for 19 of them by name. The other eight are Chess, Esports, Gaelic Games, Handball, Netball, Politics, Special Bets and Volleyball.
For a category the sports rules do not refer to, Orbit writes that the general rules and the market information apply, with two examples: Special Bets and beach volleyball. Special Bets draw the one warning this page quotes: “unpredictable”, to be treated with “particular caution”.
Politics is an entry like the rest. Not a sport. Still on the menu.
Count of menu entries that have a section named for them in the rules.
Show the data table
| Entries | Count |
|---|---|
| With a rules section | 19 |
| The other entries | 8 |
Four layers decide how a market settles
The rules are not one text. They stack in four layers: an introduction, the general rules, the sports rules and the market information. The last one travels with the market, under a “Rules” tab or a “Rules” or “i” button.
The general rules apply to every bet unless the market information or the sports rules say otherwise. Where the sports rules and the general rules disagree, the sports rules prevail; where the market information disagrees with either, it prevails, unless a rule says it applies whatever the market information says.
One line separates two products. Orbit’s exchange rules say they do not cover the Sportsbook or Fixed Odds product, and that a bet which wins on one of the two, the exchange or the Sportsbook, can be settled as a loser on the other. Read that twice.
Five sections of the sports rules carry a name that none of the 27 entries has: Athletics, Rowing, Swimming, Winter sports and Financial markets. They exist as rules. That does not say a market in them is open today.
Before the first bet in a new sport
Read the Rules tab before the first bet in a new sport, then the sports section of the full rules, since the tab is unlikely to hold every rule that applies. How an exchange market works shows what a market is made of, and what to check before you sign up is the wider list.
Where the competitions sit
A competition is a level of the screen, not a list on this page. The exchange’s own page code names six kinds of node in the navigation tree: sport, country, competition, group, event and market. Four of them, in the order a path from the menu to a price would take them, are below.
Sport
The menu entry.
Country or competition
A page route for each.
Event
One event in the sport.
Market
Where the back and lay cells sit.
Inside a sport’s page the code names a setting for collapsing a block of top competitions. The interface text of the Asian view asks you to pick a league in the left menu, and the code gives it four time filters: live, today, outrights and early.
Competition names turn up in the rules for different reasons. The baseball section is written for the MLB, the World Baseball Classic and Japanese baseball only; the basketball section names the NBA, the ice hockey section the NHL, the motor sport section Formula One, Superbikes and Speedway. The tennis section names the Davis Cup in an exception to its rule on a changed match length. On what counts as a tournament, the general rules give the Europa League outright, a Champions League group outright, the Top Premiership goalscorer, the Ryder Cup outright and the Ashes Series outright winner; a Grand Prix is a match.
In football, “top goalscorer” counts the goals in the league or competition stated in the market information; own goals do not count.
Examples, not an open list
These are names the rules mention, not a list of what is open today. That list is on the exchange’s own screen, and the back and lay walk-through takes over once you reach a market.
Racing and its card
Racing has two entries and two cards. Horse Racing and Greyhound Racing each carry a Today’s Card link on the menu. The exchange’s own page code names a race page that belongs to the trading view.
Each-way terms are written into the market, as in the rules’ example “EW Terms: 1/5th odds, 3 places”. In an ante-post market, bets on a horse stand whether it runs or not, with exceptions the rules then list one by one. The racing guide works through withdrawals, each way and dead heats. For greyhounds the bet goes, as a rule, on the trap number, and the name beside it is there for information.
Short answers
How many sports does Orbit Exchange have?
The menu reads 27 entries, and 27 is the count this page uses. Other lists give 23, 25 or more than 30.
Does it have horse racing?
Yes. Horse Racing is an entry on the menu, with a Today’s Card link of its own, and the rules give it a section.
Does it have esports?
An entry called Esports sits on the menu. How back and lay read on an esports series works through the arithmetic.
Is in-play available?
In-Play is a tab in the navigation, next to Home and the sports, and the rules speak of markets “turned in-play”.
Take a bettor whose football account the bookmaker has restricted, and nothing else. Tuesday afternoon, no match worth the stake. Say a darts line is open, and a snooker line too. A menu this wide gives that week somewhere to look. What fits at a price and the limit messages Orbit shows are another matter.
This page suits a check on a sport before you open an account, and a read of how a market settles. It does not suit today’s fixtures, which the exchange’s own screen carries, or a ranking of sports. The way in: the routes in, the list each broker publishes for your country, and the four brokers set side by side for the choice.