davejb
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After faffing about with 'Class Figures' and the like I gave up fairly quickly. So, way back long ago I used to spread the results section of the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book (the RP Weekender does the same thing these days of course) and handicap 3 mile+ chasers by don't of a great deal of cross referencing of form lines. It wasn't too bad actually, lots and lots of work but I didn't do too badly - so having given up on Class Figures I decided to resurrect my earlier (1970's) methods but get my computer to do the hard and boring bits.
So I've been quite busy, I had to teach myself to program again - must be the 8th or 9th language I've learned to code in my usual brutish fashion...Python this time.
Anyhow, the attached is for info, it's an early work in progress and some of the ratings (very much based on the time factor/distance beaten/average OR at the meeting method) can get a bit screwy - I had a horse rated 759 last week, must have been Frankel sellotaped to a couple of Secretariats, so please don't do anything silly... I'm putting this up for interest and to show I didn't just join, waffle for a week, then give up!
As far as I can tell I've got the form lines on the card to behave - occasional spelling variations in horse names had previously caused some runs to be ignored (another reason to apply liberal doses of salt here) - my aim was to produce a race card with the headline info for each race, a block of form for each runner below, and to automatically highlight 'good' bits - for previous runs over the same distance as today, a horse that won will have *** by the distance (so 6*** denotes a win over 6f, which is today's distance) a "+" symbol denotes a place. Similarly win/place on the same going, the same or higher class of race, the same jockey on board as today.
As and when I can get a window style interface going maybe I'll make it prettier, for now it's all CSV so you can use Excel or similar to view stuff and justify it etc....like I said, it really is a work in progress. I'm hoping to get this into a friendlier process and layout, then start work on a sort of trainers' formbook. The data is from a couple of sources I've mangled together, jumps data only goes back to 1 April, Flat to 1 April 2016.... even the jumps data produces a fair old stack of stuff. Currently there'll be a few on flat/jumps cards that have run on both codes, I'll be updating my programs (there are 5 or so that do different bits of the whole job in turn) to make flat and NH data a bit more easy to spot.... generally speaking anything running over 14f on the flat that has a 3m 2f form line for Uttoxeter should be regarded as possibly not showing 100% only flat form lines.
Anyhow, feel free to take a look - and apologies if there's anything really odd in these cards that I've not programmed a trapping routine to catch.
Oh, I forgot to mention that jumps and flat are both rated with respect to 9-0, ie 126 lbs, so ratings in form lines show the rating earned based on that weight - the best rating of the past 200 days is used as the rating in the upper '1 line per runner info' section, and this rating is adjusted for the weight carried. WFA is not used.
So I've been quite busy, I had to teach myself to program again - must be the 8th or 9th language I've learned to code in my usual brutish fashion...Python this time.
Anyhow, the attached is for info, it's an early work in progress and some of the ratings (very much based on the time factor/distance beaten/average OR at the meeting method) can get a bit screwy - I had a horse rated 759 last week, must have been Frankel sellotaped to a couple of Secretariats, so please don't do anything silly... I'm putting this up for interest and to show I didn't just join, waffle for a week, then give up!
As far as I can tell I've got the form lines on the card to behave - occasional spelling variations in horse names had previously caused some runs to be ignored (another reason to apply liberal doses of salt here) - my aim was to produce a race card with the headline info for each race, a block of form for each runner below, and to automatically highlight 'good' bits - for previous runs over the same distance as today, a horse that won will have *** by the distance (so 6*** denotes a win over 6f, which is today's distance) a "+" symbol denotes a place. Similarly win/place on the same going, the same or higher class of race, the same jockey on board as today.
As and when I can get a window style interface going maybe I'll make it prettier, for now it's all CSV so you can use Excel or similar to view stuff and justify it etc....like I said, it really is a work in progress. I'm hoping to get this into a friendlier process and layout, then start work on a sort of trainers' formbook. The data is from a couple of sources I've mangled together, jumps data only goes back to 1 April, Flat to 1 April 2016.... even the jumps data produces a fair old stack of stuff. Currently there'll be a few on flat/jumps cards that have run on both codes, I'll be updating my programs (there are 5 or so that do different bits of the whole job in turn) to make flat and NH data a bit more easy to spot.... generally speaking anything running over 14f on the flat that has a 3m 2f form line for Uttoxeter should be regarded as possibly not showing 100% only flat form lines.
Anyhow, feel free to take a look - and apologies if there's anything really odd in these cards that I've not programmed a trapping routine to catch.
Oh, I forgot to mention that jumps and flat are both rated with respect to 9-0, ie 126 lbs, so ratings in form lines show the rating earned based on that weight - the best rating of the past 200 days is used as the rating in the upper '1 line per runner info' section, and this rating is adjusted for the weight carried. WFA is not used.