Pinnacle odds dropper

How the detector works

The detector reads the same stream the odds API delivers. It keeps a short price history for each market and period and removes the margin first, so a change on one side is never read as a move on the other. When the no-vig price falls further than your threshold inside the window, it raises an alert with the old and new price, the no-vig price, the percentage, the market limit and, for live games, the score and the minute.

Getting the alerts in your own code

Call GET /odds-drop?min_drop=5 with your API key and leave the connection open; each alert comes through as a Server-Sent Event carrying one JSON object. Prematch alerts are on /odds-drop-prematch. Working consumers in Python, Node, Go and PHP are in the documentation, and the dropping odds API page sums up the thresholds, fields, filters and plans.

A free hourly digest on Telegram

The PinnRadar Drops Telegram channel posts the biggest full-game drops every hour, with a 15-minute delay. It is free and needs no key; the API and the SSE stream deliver every drop in milliseconds.

Why a Pinnacle drop carries more weight

Any bookmaker can shorten a price because a trader had second thoughts. Pinnacle shortens it because money came in and it preferred moving the line to turning the bet away. That is why Pinnacle’s odds serve as a reference price, and why bettors look for a Pinnacle odds dropper in particular.