Figure out way to cancel games that don't go >= 5 innings

[ensignlee]

For all MLB bets, games must go >= 5 innings to be official. Sometimes they get rained out before that happens. It'd be nice if we were able to do the same thing that books do and cancel games that get postponed before 5 innings.

This can be a low priority though, since users themselves obviously know which games have been cancelled and can delete games themselves if it happens, but it'd be a nice touch. Plus, this situation doesn't come up often.

Basically, we'd need to cancel any games that don't go at least 5 innings so that the wager shows up as cancelled.

[camerondavison]

does this actually happen in practice? i think that we have games cancel if they do not have a final score in something like 48 hours? Would you like for us to be more proactive than that?

[ensignlee]

This happens a few times a season, yes.

[camerondavison]

No i meant, does it happen that the game never gets cancelled. I know that these games exists. Like, is it currently an issue. If it is not getting cancelled then that is a problem, but considering that i think that they are, then are they just not getting canceled fast enough/what is considered appropriate?

[ensignlee]

Well, the problem is that espn will still show it having a score. Like if a game went 4 innings, but then got rained out and delayed, I think ESPN would display the score as like 2-0 or whatever the score was, so we'd still grade it? However, for betting purposes, the game didn't count because it didn't go >= 5 innings.

[ensignlee]

For instance, last Sunday 8/14/11 Minn was playing Clev and Clev went up 1-0 but it got rained out.