Horse Software Questions/Idea Thread

[Adam]

I think an ideas thread is a good...err...idea. Tech support requests really need to go through the published support button in the software though.

It's the best way to guarantee your issue won't get lost amongst the discussion on here, and I check the support inbox way more often than I check the forum. In fact I get a Slack alert on an urgent channel whenever a support ticket appears in Asana.

Even with ideas / feature requests, I'll probably end up saying "please submit this in the software", but it will be good for everyone to have the opportunity to discuss them here first. Then once we decide to go ahead with them, we can add them to Asana to be scheduled.

@John-Folan said in Horse Software Support/Idea Thread:

with results when we look at the breakdown under pace rating is that then the pace rating incorporating how it ran in that race or is the breakdown still based on that expected pace rating

Yes, the pace rating is always the expected rating based on the horse's last 3 races before the current one. We don't update it after the race has run as that would prevent you from being able to use it effectively in the backtesting.

@John-Folan said in Horse Software Support/Idea Thread:

how easy would it be to assign an expected pace letter to each race based on the previous runs?

Did you mean to each runner, or are you thinking of assigning a letter to the overall race, like a pace expectation for the whole race based on the pace styles of the runners in that race?

[Greg Mitchell]

@John-Folan Thats a good question, I always assumed it was the Pace Rating it achieved in that actual race.

[John Folan]

@Adam

I have a bit of a stupid/not stupid question that I hope will make sense. I know what I mean I just hope I can get that to come across. It involves pace ratings.

So I know we get an expected pace rating for that specific race based on previous runs and when we run the strategy the upcoming selections are based on the expected pace rating as mentioned. But with results when we look at the breakdown under pace rating is that then the pace rating incorporating how it ran in that race or is the breakdown still based on that expected pace rating? I’m pretty sure it is still based on the pace rating that is expected rather than actual incorporating that race. (I actually like the term expected). If that is the case then how easy would it be to assign an expected pace letter to each race based on the previous runs? I’m trying to look at ways to give us more ratings to use as I think there is untapped potential there. It’s probably why we need a speed rating. Also might be fun then to assign a “BTC Rating” to a horse combing your form plus a speed rating. Long term ideas I know but more stuff to think about.