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16 posts tagged “historical data”.

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How to Detect Capture Gaps in Historical Data: A Buyer's Guide

Learn a four-step audit to find capture gaps in any market-data archive: derive coverage, dark time and cadence from the rows, not the README.

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First Insight: What's In the $9 Kalshi Microstructure Tryout

Recount the $9 Kalshi tryout's pinned release and explore recorded spreads, book changes and taker flow, with clear clock and coverage limits.

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First Insight: What's In the $9 MLB Matched Book Tryout

We ran the numbers on our own $9 MLB matched-book tryout: cross-venue spread, a shared capture gap, and why a settlement-label check isn't a prediction.

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The State of Prediction-Market Data in 2026: Our Recorded Coverage

An October 2026 snapshot of ZenHodl’s Polymarket, Kalshi, MLB and combo releases, with exact catalog counts, distinct clocks and measured capture limits.

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Per-Sport Kalshi Order-Book Slices: Buy Just the Tennis (or MLB, or WNBA, or Esports) You Need

Buy just the Kalshi order-book slice you study: ATP/WTA/ITF tennis, MLB, WNBA, or LoL/CS2 esports — $39 each, same live capture as the full tape.

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Kalshi L2 Depth and Trade Data: A Reproducible Sample Check

A practical guide to ZenHodl's recorded Kalshi L2 depth and deduplicated trade prints: what the fields mean, what the sample checks, and the hard limits.

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We Recorded the World Cup Final's Order Book — The Historical Snapshot Archive

L2 depth for the first 48-team World Cup final: 1.01M rows on Spain vs. Argentina, 20.8M across 47 matches — including which we lost. $39.

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Polymarket–Kalshi Lead-Lag: A Sampled MLB Study

Corrected Oct 2026: a five-sport study reverses this MLB study's 32-second direction, and 1-second data shows the venues move within ~1 s.

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Historical Polymarket and Kalshi Data: A Buyer’s Guide

Compare official history, free recorded books and ZenHodl archives. Check dates, depth, clocks, matching rules and license before choosing data.

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We Made Our Data Archive Buyable by an AI Agent (x402 on Base)

How we made our data archive buyable by an AI agent over x402 on Base, with on-chain proof. Update 2026-09-27: now x402 v2; new purchases can be paused.

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How to Get Historical Polymarket Order Book Data

Find recorded Polymarket books through official data, free archives or paid files. Check the exact fields, clocks, captured window and gaps first.

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Backtesting Polymarket: Check Data Before Simulating Fills

Recorded Polymarket prices can replay decisions but not fills. See a checked 400-row sample, schema limits, and declared cost scenarios for backtests.

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8 Sports, One API: Designing a Unified Schema for Multi-Sport Win Probabilities

How we designed a single unified API schema that serves calibrated win probabilities for 12 different sports — basketball, hockey, baseball, football...

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Building a CS2 Betting Bot: Round Economy, Map Pools, and the Data Problem

Counter-Strike 2 has the widest mispricings on Polymarket. It also has the worst data infrastructure. Here's how we built a 4-tier model that handles both.

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Stream Live Sports Data with WebSockets in Python

How to get real-time sports scores using WebSockets in Python. Compares HTTP polling vs WebSocket streaming, with working code for building a live data feed.

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ESPN API in Python: Scoreboard, Summary and Win Probability

Python examples for ESPN scoreboard and summary endpoints: event IDs, winprobability fields, playId joins, missing sports and data limits.