IPL Markets on Polymarket

The IPL trades the venue's standard shapes translated to cricket: match-winner lines, run over/under totals, and player props — a subset of the 58,000-prop and 372,000-over/under markets that dominate the sports catalog. Cricket fixtures register under the league's series alongside scores-based shapes.

The run-line total is the IPL's equivalent of football's goal line — an integer-continuous market that steps every handful of balls, which is exactly the cadence a recorded book was made to study.

Twenty overs are twenty-plus reprice events: the match-winner reprints inside one or two 250ms frames at each wicket, and the run total steps with virtually every delivery. Captured books turn an overs-lived match into hundreds of rows of second-level depth.

The venue's executable-price discipline applies unchanged: 98.6% of executable prices sit on the 0.99/0.995 grid, so on the IPL the honest price is the filled price, not the drifting line.

The powerplay rips the run total upward over six overs; the batting side's fortunes flip the match-winner at the 13th-over wicket, and the death-overs reprint the ladder back the other way. Each movement is a 250ms row pair with volume and top-of-book depth attached.

Studied as data, the fixture reads as an overs-indexed spreadsheet of reprints — the exact material for calibrating how much an over of cricket actually moves an IPL book.

T20 books thin abruptly between deliveries — a one-sided snapshot state that fits the venue's 16.9% one-sided share at 5-minute granularity and is far more common here at the second level. A study should treat a wicket's reprint and the empty-side seconds that follow as the venue's honest texture, not an artifact.

• Cricket data
• Sports catalog
• Trades data