We at Paddy Power understand that speed is important. Sure as they say in the movies, “time is money”. For this reason, we’ve once again paid the Paddy Power geeks an extra 4 pizzas and a free Atari T-shirt to build us a set of RSS Feeds to help you get to the information you need even faster.
As I’m sure most of you are aware, we launched our new Racing Pages earlier this month. Thanks to the feedback we received in an earlier post, we quickly realised the Next 3 Races link in the navigation was missed. One of our technical advisors thought it wouldn’t be. He’s been de-promoted to the Marketing team…
So I’m happy to announce the return of the long awaited Next Race link to the Left Nav. To make up for the delay we’ve increased it to the Next 5 Races. That’s an extra 66% FREE.
Once again thanks for the feedback and keep it coming, as we’re not ignoring it.
More changes to come…
Happy Racing,
The Web Team
Today sees the launch of our new racing pages. Once again we have locked lots of technical people into a room, not letting them out this time until they emerged successfully with a new racing section for our website.
The new pages have more information, are easier to use and hopefully give you all what you have been asking us for. As for our technical people, well, after a day in the sunshine, we sent them back into their room to get on with the next development.
You asked for it so we built it. We are proud to present our new and improved, GTI 16V Results service.
You can now get every result for every market for every event we offer here on the website. That’s right, it covers all sports from Racing to Rugby, Football to Financials and Cricket to Cycling.
Right..you’ve asked for it!..plus you’ve begged, pleaded, cajoled, threatened, harassed..and eventually sent us the nice brown envelope containing the correct amount of “beer vouchers” required in order to get…(drumroll…hushed respectful silence) a brandy brand new…Results Centre! da-dahh! Ah right..it’s not quite ready yet, but it may (or may not..depending on beer voucher consumption) be soon appearing on a screen near you!
So, what we want now is to hear your dreams?!? No..not those kind..the “I have a dream of finding out the result of the Outer Mongolia v Ballyboglanders match on which I punted the kid’s college fund money” kind of dream… i.e. What do you want to see offered on our new Results service? We currently only offer results for Racing and “Soccer” (aka Football to those of us not in Beckhamland), but are planning to extend the results service to every event we offer for betting on paddypower.com e.g. those high octane events such as Ostrich Racing, Pigeon Wrestling, Foxy Boxing (I wish) etc..ahem I mean Tennis, Golf, Rugby and the other 1001 sports/current affairs events you can bet on with PP.
So what Results bell or whistle floats your boat..e.g. a quicklink to all todays results by sport, Latest Racing or Football Matches results for events just settled, a RSS feed of results straight to my browser..etc.. you get the idea…just jot down your dream idea below and it may become a reality!
As Kevin ‘Field of Dreams’ Costner once said..”build it and they will come”. So unless you want to see a big ass baseball field built smack bang in the middle of our lovely website..please tell us what kind of Results section you want to visit!
There was a sudden cacophony of laptops being clicked shut, palm pilots being turned off and poor sensory motor coordination around Paddy Power Plaza this morning. Within a blink of an eye our techie guys were out the door in a whirlwind of USB memory sticks and ergonomic keyboards shouting something about a Star Trek convention being in town.
That’s why I’ve been assigned the task of telling you about some technical mumbo jumbo improvements to our Bet Slip – next thing you know they’ll have me talking about sobriety and tolerance.
Thanks to some feedback we got from one of the posts by our technology team, we have made placing multiples easier. When building the type of accums that could really win you one of those sums of money that Paddy Power lies awake at night petrified about, you can now get upto 20 selections in your accum.
So if you want to mix up your banker football bets with horse racing, rugby or whatever it is you like to bet on, it’s now much easier. 20 selections can now be accommodated on the bet slip and that’s useful for building accums across our wide range of sports betting.
Nobody likes to have a bet on a race you can’t see, particularly when you’re in it for the thrills rather than any sort of serious attempt to make money (which, if your luck is anything like mine, is just as well)
Fortunately we’ve just added all Racing UK tracks to our ‘Bet and Watch’ service, which means that every single race in Britain and Ireland is now available to watch live on your PC. That’s right. Every single race. All you need to do is stake a fiver or more on the race (Euros or Pounds, it’s all the same to us), click the “Watch Live” button next to the race you want to watch, sit back and enjoy. Just keep an eye out for the boss looking over your shoulder.
We are always looking at how we can improve our site and at the moment our attention has turned to our Bet Slip . Our current one has performed well for us over the past couple of years and we have not had many problems with it so it has been a case of if it aint broke….
Well times have changed and we think that now is the time to say goodbye to the old one and in its place we want to introduce a new and improved slip, that displays on the same page you are looking at, is visible form every page you visit, is always in the same area, and is a lot simpler and easier to use with less steps.
Its fair to say that we have a pretty good idea of what we want to do with it but I want to invite your comments now so that we can make it the best it can be. I can’t guarantee that we will use every suggestion but I can promise to read and review each of them, I may even put some replies up here if there’s something we need to discuss. So please post a comment on here, tell us what you like or dislike about our current bet slip, Tell us about other bet slips you use and like, tell us about features you would like to see on the bet slip, tell us what annoys you most about the whole process.
Can you limit responses to the topic please as the Mods will delete anything that isn’t, if you have any other comments or feedback on the site in general can you please email customer support (use the link at the bottom of the page)
Ok we admit it we are a bit late to the Party with our Blog but we decided that enough was enough and that all you lucky people out there should get to hear what we at Paddy Power HQ have to say about all things betting and a few things that are not. And so it was the Paddy Power Blog, Over The Line was born.
We will be posting here about things that we are talking about ranging from Sports events, TV, New additions to the website, Poker, Games, The betting world and just about anything else that we think you might be intetrested in hearing.
Hopefully you will get to know a few of the people here from Paddy Power himself to the people that write the Home page articles and the Web team that is in charge of keeping the website running and easy to use.
Thats not all though we want to hear from you, feel free to comment on any or all of the posts that you see, or maybe drop us a line and tell us what you want to hear us talking about, you never know we may even stick it up as a post. Bear in mind we have some rules so please observe them before you make a post.
Happy reading
The Web Team
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