Ishaan Varkey
Ishaan looks at a live market the wrong way round, on purpose. Most people see a team and then a price. He sees two prices and then asks which team they belong to — because on a live screen the pair is the information, and the team name is a label on it.
Mid-match, two prices on screen
The sheet
His working habit is a single sheet with two columns: a price down the left, and beside it what laying ₹100 at that price can cost. 1.50 costs ₹50, 2.50 costs ₹150, 4.00 costs ₹300. He writes it out by hand for every new reader he explains it to, because the moment it clicks is the moment the column on the right grows longer than the stake on the left.
Mid-match, two prices on screen
What he wrote
- the home page — back and lay, the liability table, and the local quote in paise, where lagai 80 and khai 82 turn out to be a back at 1.80 and a lay at 1.82;
- cash out — how to price the offer yourself with a hedge before you look at the button.
Mid-match, two prices on screen
What he checks on every page
That every rupee figure can be rebuilt from a formula printed beside it. If a sum on his pages cannot be redone on a phone calculator in a few seconds, he rewrites the sum rather than the sentence around it.
He also checks the direction of every example. A lay table that swaps the win and lose columns reads perfectly well and is exactly wrong, and it is the most common slip in writing about this subject.
