Pinnacle odds dropper

How the odds dropper works

The detector sits on the same stream the Pinnacle API serves. For every market and period it keeps the recent price history, strips the margin so a move on one side is not mistaken for a move on the other, and emits an alert when the no-vig price drops by more than your threshold within the window. Each alert carries the old and new price, the no-vig price, the drop percentage, the market limit, the score and the match minute when the game is live.

Streaming the alerts into your own code

Open GET /odds-drop?min_drop=5 with your API key and keep the connection open: alerts arrive as Server-Sent Events, one JSON object each. Prematch drops are on /odds-drop-prematch. The dropping odds API guide walks through a Python and a Node consumer, and how to detect odds drops explains the maths behind the threshold.

Why Pinnacle drops matter more than most

A price can fall at any book because a trader changed their mind. At Pinnacle it falls because money arrived and the book chose to move rather than refuse the bet. That is the whole reason Pinnacle’s odds are used as a reference price, and why a Pinnacle odds dropper is the one most bettors ask for.