Dear Fellow Punter
In most fields of life, if we are looking to see what can possibly happen in the future, we look at the past and
compare it with current circumstance to make our predictions.
Now let's think about how horse racing bets are chosen. Unless you are psychic, you're using past performances
to do your handicapping. It is believed it is better to use some kind of system rather than just using an haphazard
approach that some people prefer. Like they say, “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.”
If we wish to determine the likely outcome of a race we tend to look at the recent history of the horses and then
apply relevant “measures” to make an educated forecast of the most likely contender(s) to place on our betting
slips.
If you are a person who has followed this route with your horse racing predictions and have used a “pointing
system” to handicap the horses, then the likelihood is that you have visited the on-line version of Racing Post to
assess a race......BUT what did you do once you started looking at the mass of data available for the race you
wish to handicap to finally arrive at your final forecast?
Does the following seem familiar?
You have a race card in front of you and you want to apply points to the various criteria.
For example:
You want to allocate points using the following criteria -
5 points to each horse which won last race.
3 points to each horse which came in 2nd in its last race.
2 points to each horse which came in 3rd in its last race.
1 point to each horse which came in 4th in its last race.
3 points to a horse if it is a Course & Distance winner.
2 points to a horse if it is a Distance winner.
1 point to a horse if it is a Course winner.
etc. etc. etc.
Have you got the picture?....a very laborious and time-consuming exercise
indeed. Each pointing level has to be “manually” allocated to each horse and each
horse’s points “manually” added and sorted to arrive at a final forecast. And this is just for
one race.
Admittedly, over a long period of time, you would get used to identifying horses to omit, but you are still faced with
a long-winded approach of applying points to the remainder.........and there are always those marginal horses
which could be overlooked and may have been worthy of consideration.
This is where Racing By The Points comes in.
Racing By The Points has been written with the aim of providing you with a flexible pointing platform which you can
use against selected criteria for UK Mainland races.
With so many horse racing systems in the marketplace having rigid rules non of them are going to work with every type
of race. Racing By The Points has been set-up with default settings but the idea is for you to be empowered to set-up
your own library of settings against the type(s) of race you follow. Even a single racecourse can hold different types of
race and Racing By The Points is not limited to the number of pointing levels that can be set-up for each one to meet
varying ideas on the use of race criteria.
The forecasting process is a simple one:
► Select Race from Racing Post using browser within our software.
► Click Prepare Forecast
► View Forecast
Initially, the forecast will be calculated based on Default Point Settings but if you have created a more suitable pointing
level which you have saved in your library you can quickly recalculate the forecast by selecting the pointing level
required.
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Horse Racing Core Criteria
All in all, Racing By The Points will provide you with a totally flexible tool which will not only allow you to get away from the drudgery of
manually “scoring” race cards but will also empower you to try and test new ideas about pointing levels.
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So, what changes to this “manual” method would you like to see?
I suspect first and foremost you would like to place a
stick of dynamite against the need to “manually” rate
each race.
Am I correct?
Now, let’s think on a little bit further:
The variety of “pointing systems” for handicapping a horse race using data from a past race is enormous but vendors of
these systems usually tell you to use the same pointing levels no matter what type of race you are attempting to forecast.
No two venues are alike; even the same venue can host different distances and class of race; I think you would agree to
that.......And because not all races are the same any one system which uses a static pointing system will prove useless
on many types of race.
Many of these “static” systems don’t even differentiate between Flat Racing and the Jumps, and yet, here lies a crucial
piece of criteria that can be used when assessing many Flat Races.
Nevertheless, with any race, we require a core level of criteria to enable us to make comparisons and to handicap each
horse in light of the information available, but as already stated this can be a long time-consuming affair.
Now that we have probably agreed that we need to obliterate “manual” pointing I hope we can agree that any pointing levels we
use should be flexible enough to match our own ideas.
If you are still with me I think your wish-list would read something like:
Ability to select a race from Racing Post’s website and
have selected pointing levels applied automatically to
core criteria.
Ability to set-up a library of pointing levels to meet my own ideas.
Ability to Include or Exclude any of the core racing criteria from
calculations.
Ability to re-scale pointing levels for any of the available
criteria within a library at any time.
........The Automated Approach
To Selecting Winning Horses