An interesting glitch appeared on ScorumBet today and it would be useful to know if anyone else has been affected by it. I had a about 3 bets on the Man United v Southampton game today. As can be seen from the score it was a lively game and as I am typing this it looks like Man United have snatched a late winner to make it 3-2.

However what was most concerning was whilst looking at my bets on ScorumBet all of my bets on the match seem to have vanished. No trace of any bets on this game can be found within my account. My other bets are showing, it is just the bets for this game.

One aspect missing on the site is the ability to alert someone to such problems, this is the first time I have had such a problem and I am now unsure what exactly is going to happen. Hopefully the issue will resolve itself and the bets will settle in due course. These kind of things happen and they happen fairly often on Betfair, who do eventually sort out issues on wrongly settled events.

Since Betfair hold the players funds and can make corrections, it will be interesting to see how this works out on ScorumBet. Bets are settled in around 40 minutes on here but if there is a mistake can ScorumBet easily correct any errors, is there a policy or procedure for this process to happen?

Whilst posting there are a couple of enhancements I would like to see made to the platform that would really make a big difference for liquidity. Trading on here is pretty much restricted to the betting bank you have, since exposure is not correctly calculated, leading to large portions of the betting bank tied up until the event is settled. Betfair calculates actual exposure which frees up funds to be used on other bets. This problem can be overcome by just increasing the available funds to cover all active bets, but for those not in a position to do that, actual exposure position calculation would help them trade on more matches.

The other improvement I would like to see is the consolidation of liabilities of multiple bets on individual matches. It would be so much better if it was easy to see exactly how much exposure you had on a match without actually having to manually count up the individual bets. This is tedious and is prone to mistakes since bets don't appear all together in the betting list.

These improvements are not things the casual betting punter will be too concerned with if they are just placing bets on single events for single amounts. However to attract the serious betting players these enhancements are a must.