How do I make my selections ?
Today I’m going to talk about how I come by my selections. As you know I make my selections primarily through using ratings, so I thought I would go into the process to give you an idea to what’s involved.
Firstly the Ratings that I use are made of many, many mathematical calculations that are far beyond anything that I could come up with, but I do know how to use them to my best advantage. Hopefully by showing you the process That I go through might help you understand the reasoning to how I come by my selections ( hopefully ) and that I don’t just stick a pin in the paper.
I will take you through an example where all the runners are pretty close in the ratings so that you can see that the ratings used in conjunction with other stats from other sources.
So we are going back to 10th October for the 15:55 at Newton Abbott for a class 2 Intermediate chase over 2m 5f 110y.
Fig 1.
Ok the first column is the finish positions of this race ( 505 means Faller ). The next column is a ranking figure that incorporates many different ratings and then gives a horse a ranking , the third column is one of my favourite ratings and I suppose I could liken it to The Racing Post Rating. Basically it’s the software’s own projected rating for each and every horse, whether it runs to that figure or not. What happens after the race is that with all the factors of the race taken into account the software will then calculate the actual figure it ran too and that can be checked against the run at a later date. ( I digress ) The next figure is an average rating for all the times that the horse has to on the day’s ground conditions. So basically I use these ratings to find contenders.
Fig 2.
From the 5 runners shown in fig 1, I then concentrate on the top 3 in the actual ratings.
Wonderful Charm = brown line
Double Ross = Red Line
Taquin Du Sol = Green Line
Ok in fig 2 I am able to see how a horse is progressing or not, so as you can see with Wonderful Charm every one of his recent runs he has run to a figure of over 200, its projected figure is also just over 200 and its average on the days going is over 200 with a big jump in the ratings 3 races back. As you can see from the graph is that all 3 runners are pretty much on par, which pretty much says they are all consistent types. On the actual software if you actually click on any one of the shapes it will tell you everything you need to know about the actual figures for that particular race.
Ok so know I have a basic idea that this will be a pretty close race as most of the runners are at about the same level. What I do now is I will add or minus point to or from each runner for certain criteria, say for example I will add points to each runner that has won or placed at the distance and again for wins or places on the days going and there are some other factors that I add and minus for as well, so from the original ratings figure I now have a new figure .
What I do now is refer to my own adjusted ratings which will tell me a range of ratings that horses have won or placed in similar races at this course, distance and going. They then are all rehashed to give me a master rating of which any contender must be equal to or beat to become selection. In this case all three were still in contention at this point.
Now I know that this race is going to be well contested I have to go back to the original ratings and see if I can get an answer there, in this case I went back and had a look at the class of this race and other races that the horses had run in. Each horse is assigned a class rating and from this I can determine the ratings class of the race to be run and various other past races which then can be compared to find the horse which has been running in a better ratings class.
I also use a rating that tells me the monetary class of the race and I can also use a rating that tells me at what class any horse was last competitive in. There are a lot more ratings that I use to determine what I think will be the most competitive in any given race, which might make you think that this looks like it takes forever.
The ratings that I use can be exported to an excel csv file from which I can gather any number of ratings that I want use into an excel spreadsheet that I have to automatically spits out contenders and selections at a touch of a button and then with a little reading of the said rating I normally come to my final decision within about 10 minutes per qualifying race, which on average is around 10 races per day.
I’m always reviewing ratings to see if I can add or even take out of any equation to try and keep the systems viable and thus far they have held up, but I am in the process at the moment looking at a couple more ratings to improve one of the systems in the service which is dragging it down and hopefully have a solution very soon.
Ok that’s hopefully given you a quick insight into how my selections are made and the work that I put into the selections every day, to try and make sure that they all stand a good chance of winning the races.
If you have any questions or comments I will be happy to answer them below..
Hi
I joined your service on October 4th,the reason I joined is because I was impressed with your results since January.
I have a bit of a dilemma in that my 3 month membership is up at the end of December and i don’t know whether to go for another 3 month.
To be quite honest I haven’t been impressed with your results lately, because they don’t reflect on your previous results.
Please don’t take this the wrong way when I say that I hope the past results aren’t fabricated to make your service look good.
I want to believe that they are real, and we can do business for many years to come
Best Regards
Keith
Hi Keith,
I can assure you that the results are not fabricated, and trust me I’m not in the business of pulling the wool over anybodies eyes.
As you know when I started using the 4 mini systems for this I was already halfway through the jumps and coming into the the AW then onto the flat season, so there were actually fewer contenders.
So as we came into the Jumps season in October I was coming into a bit of an unknown. What has happened is the systems for the jumps are producing more selections and we have lost consistency probably due to the ground conditions and less consistent horses and so what we get is some good winners then have a losing streak to take that profit away.
The dilemma I have is do I change the ratings or not, what I will not do is panic and change things drastically. I have been going back over the results and seeing if I could factor in any more ratings to get some consistency, hopefully we will bear the full fruits of this very soon.
If by the end of December I haven’t turned it round then I fully understand your dilemma, Hopefully i will and we will have a long and profitable future.
Kind
regards
Mick
Good morning sir .How successful are your ratings? Give me a percentage.Because i am in new zealand tipsters are not relevant however choosing favourites utilizing certain factors is.Something like the lazy dog method applied to an eight dog race or anchor with the field and the field would be useful here.At the nz tab they only cover certain races from the other side of the world.We seem to be behind the times as we havent developed a universal global approach.Can you help me with some useful systems.I would love to utilize a proven method for funding my suicide prevention trust.Yours truely Jacob.
Hi Mick
Thanks for the reply hopefully by the end of the month you will have turned it around, and I can carry on for another 3 month.
I apologise if I came over a bit abrupt regarding your service.
I just hope you understand from my point of view regarding your results.
I want to give you the benefit simply because of the ground conditions, i will keep my fingers crossed that everything is going to be ok
Best Regards
Keith
Hi Keith,
not a problem, I’m happy to answer any questions or quieries that I can.
All The Best
Mick