Working with /futures

The /futures surface covers longer-horizon betting products -- championship winners, season outrights, tournament placings, and other positions that remain open well beyond a single event window.

When to use it

• Publishing season or tournament winner boards in your sportsbook
• Enriching navigation with pre-event outright inventory alongside live event markets
• Powering editorial dashboards or internal monitoring around long-running competitions
• Feeding trading models that track futures price movement over time

How futures differ from event odds

Futures inventories behave differently from event-level markets in several important ways:

• Lifecycle -- A futures market can stay open for weeks or months. Event odds typically open and close within a day or two.
• Refresh cadence -- Futures prices update less frequently than live event odds. Plan your polling intervals accordingly.
• Display logic -- Most sportsbook UIs present futures in a dedicated section, separate from the live event board. Treat them as a distinct product surface in your mapping layer.
• Availability -- Not every sport or league offers futures. Use the /sports endpoint to confirm which markets are available before building futures-dependent features.

Reference

• List futures
• Get futures odds
• API reference