PinOdds

PinOdds is a WordPress plugin designed to provide live probability leaderboards for major golf tournaments, specifically The Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and The Open. The tool addresses the issue of inflated bookmaker margins in golf outright markets, where the combined implied probabilities from bookmakers often exceed 100%, sometimes reaching 140% or more. PinOdds aggregates prices from multiple bookmakers for every player in the tournament, filters out unreliable quotes, and normalizes the probabilities across the entire field so that they sum to exactly 100%. This approach aims to present a fair and transparent forecast of each player's chances of winning, rather than promoting betting or linking to bookmakers. The plugin can be embedded into WordPress sites in several ways. Users can insert the live leaderboard widget onto any page using a shortcode, with options to adjust its appearance for light-themed sites or to limit the number of displayed events. Alternatively, the leaderboard can be added as a block within the WordPress editor, with settings accessible from the block sidebar. The leaderboard updates automatically throughout the tournament, showing the current win probabilities for all players in real time. PinOdds does not display bookmaker names or provide betting links, emphasizing its role as a forecasting and analytics tool rather than a promotional or betting service. The evidence does not specify pricing or licensing details beyond its listing in the WordPress Plugin Directory. The tool is intended for WordPress site owners, golf fans, and analytics users seeking up-to-date, normalized probability forecasts for major golf tournaments.