The BTC Horse Racing Thread
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Just the regular 125-1 winner at Great Yarmouth this afternoon, hope it cropped up on some filters
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@kc said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
QQ for anybody out there, does anybody trade the place markets at all? I have had a reasonable amount of backed horses place and was wondering if it profitable or not?
You can check it if you download the individual results and fiddle with it. It has the place prices and whether they did or didnt
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QQ for anybody out there, does anybody trade the place markets at all? I have had a reasonable amount of backed horses place and was wondering if it profitable or not?
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@john-folan Perfect, thank you for letting me know!
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@laura-holloway Adam has fixed it now
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@frank-jones Yeah I have also raised a ticket, wasn't sure if was just my software that was down. I noticed it yesterday evening also, a lot of the races were missing from the software
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@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@frank-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@john-folan Is that because the races aren't appearing on the software for today? I'm only getting Ffos Las and Catterick, and only 4 races showing in total - 1 Catterick & 3 Ffos Las!
More than likely. I've Asana'd @Adam . @Martin Is there anyone else we can bother with this??
I raised a ticket too. (I think - not the clearest of processes!)
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@frank-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@john-folan Is that because the races aren't appearing on the software for today? I'm only getting Ffos Las and Catterick, and only 4 races showing in total - 1 Catterick & 3 Ffos Las!
More than likely. I've Asana'd @Adam . @Martin Is there anyone else we can bother with this??
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@frank-jones might well be. Bit weird if I’m honest. Although no trobs either which I get from elsewhere.
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@john-folan Is that because the races aren't appearing on the software for today? I'm only getting Ffos Las and Catterick, and only 4 races showing in total - 1 Catterick & 3 Ffos Las!
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Absolutely nothing today!
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Sadly back in the land of the living. Will try and catch up properly over the next few days. In the meantime:
Todays Selections
Flat Pace: Back any between 2.0-25 near the off.
Slow Horses: Dob any over 6.0
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@jonathan-jones updating the filter wouldn’t work as it would still depend on the time of day you looked at it. I’ve mentioned to Adam on Asana about taking going out of the qualifiers criteria as I think people are just going to have to check the going near race time as I do.
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I can't find the previous discussion on here about the going now but yes, we use the official going which can change.
The going value you see is the final going value at the time of the race. If the going changes throughout the life of the market then you might have horses that didn't qualify earlier in the day but did by the time the race went off.
We are planning to store the whole going history instead just one static value. Same goes for any value that has the potential to change during the life of the market. Maybe what we could then do is send you an alert if your strategy uses the going and the going has changed since the last time your qualifiers were run.
The reason for logging these things in the support form is so that we can identify these needs, not lose track of them and figure out solutions for them. I have added the above to our roadmap.
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@john-folan
I guessed that was the problem. To be honest i cant really see any way round it other than something like you have done or roll my own automation. Not sure its going to be worth logging it in asana as i doubt there is much Adam can do. Maybe update the filter criteria more frequently for the qualifiers but still needs to be discussed here as its a pretty big limitation that people need to be aware of. -
@jonathan-jones you are probably best off raising this in asana on the software. Going probably needs to be removed from qualifiers as a variable as it can and will change on the day. Until then I run a separate qualifier version of my flat pace with going removed. I load them all in and I’ve then got it in Bfbot to exclude them if the going is one of the excluded ones. However, bfbot itself only uses predicted going as it gets that info from the racing post and does not update as the day goes on(they are looking to add this in a later update when I chatted with them about it) so I just check the going of the course on Timeform after the first race and go by that. Then just delete any where the course has changed. Writing this message actually has taken longer than it does to do that everyday lol. I never bothered raising it as this just seemed like a common sense workaround to deal with a changing variable. Since then my results match the software for every selection.
