The BTC Horse Racing Thread
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Racing is so boring at the moment with all these cancelled meetings and horses being withdrawn. Still I’d rather that than an injured animal.
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@John-Folan Second/third this idea!
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@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@John-Folan running archie score from date of forward testing would be a good idea too wouldn't it!
Oh yes. Absolutely.
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@John-Folan running archie score from date of forward testing would be a good idea too wouldn't it!
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@John-Folan fantastic feature thanks @Adam
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Loving the new Archie score being applied to the horse racing software. You all might find this useful. This shows the chances of your strategy being chance or robust based on your score.
Read the first post on both threads.
Horse Trading Resources
https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/1111/john-s-horse-trading-resourcesBfBotmanager
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@Ryan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@John-Folan Lovely! I was thinking about not automating it, mainly as a way of showing a video on this strategy and how it could be found in the horses to be honest.
A lot of people did well over many years with this strategy.
You would do well to do that. The racecards in the software are under utilised and there is a wealth of info in there.
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@John-Folan Lovely! I was thinking about not automating it, mainly as a way of showing a video on this strategy and how it could be found in the horses to be honest.
A lot of people did well over many years with this strategy.
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@Ryan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
Asking in here @Everyone before I have a go at building this but has anybody built or tested Dreamakers L2B strategy in the software?
I know it relies on the top 3 rated on Proform but I am sure @Adam @John-Folan will have a work around.
It was crazy good back in the day.
Rules are:
I don’t think it can be automated but I’ve done well off it swapping top 3 rated for pace rating 6 or below. Easy money if you have the patience and trade out without blinking if it goes the wrong way
Read the first post on both threads.
Horse Trading Resources
https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/1111/john-s-horse-trading-resourcesBfBotmanager
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Asking in here @Everyone before I have a go at building this but has anybody built or tested Dreamakers L2B strategy in the software?
I know it relies on the top 3 rated on Proform but I am sure @Adam @John-Folan will have a work around.
It was crazy good back in the day.
Rules are:
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@Myles-O-Bery I don't know much about t&p values, I need to read more into high level statisical analysis (wish I studied it at Uni instead of Sociology and Counselling!).
I think you are right but the only caveat is that sometimes getting 500+ results in one course could take a long time depending on the strategy. That said as @Adam is adding in a few more years soon that won't really be an issue moving forward.
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Yeah it's a bit tricky. Do you have much experience with significance testing (t & p values)?
Based on my calculations, some courses with low trades (100 - 200) are showing high confidence levels (90%+) based on their results while some courses with 1000+ trades show confidence levels of 80%.
Naturally, the more trades we have the more accurate the results are so I'm disregarding significance tests with less than 500-odd trades as I feel that, with anything below this, a couple of big wins/losses could skew the results.
What are your thoughts?
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@John-Folan yeah you are onto something there, also we are moving further and further away from it which is the good news!
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@Myles-O-Bery it's so difficult to say really, I mean you want a clear trend so results per course I'm guessing if after 100+ you are seeing a massive reason not to use it then that could be one to avoid. I don't tend to remove anything unless it is a really clear negative trend though.
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Read the first post on both threads.
Horse Trading Resources
https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/1111/john-s-horse-trading-resourcesBfBotmanager
https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/2915/bfbotmanager-automation-discussion -
How many trades do you guys like to see before removing a particular course from a strategy? 100? 1000?
Would appreciate any recommended reads about statistics that relate to optimisation!
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Thought I would move my discussion to about 2023 figures being the only reliable ones due to Covid here.
I’ve mentioned it on the strategies megathread. It really does appear to be a thing.
It also explains why a few strategies fell apart as the year went on.
Especially those where the big profit was 2021 and early 2022
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I wouldn’t read too much into changeover months unless it is consistent in the software that it affects it. Our only problem there is it’s really only the last 12/18 months where we can rely on uncorrupted data(due to all the Covid crap).
Would really need to see data from pre Covid to draw real conclusions, or wait a couple of years as we get a fuller picture of the new world order post Covid.
That said. Nothing wrong with a bit of caution and there will always be more racing tomorrow(or next week, month etc).
