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Very interesting Grant. Yeah noticed that there has been a lot of interesting stuff come out of Aus in this field which was why i mentioned the boy at Sydney Uni - there is an abstract of a recent working paper that should be coming out soon in the larger folder i put up. That may be of interest.
Regarding the UK i would have no idea but could point you to four or five diehard serious UK greyhound punters who would maybe know.
All of them to a man use the replay as their main information source. Within that area they would be doing split screen time comparisons race to race and accounting for any bias or trouble within the run. Most of them "specialise" and only do maybe 2-3 tracks.
Think the restrictions and banning from the large retail corporates here have hit those type of guys hard though as their big edge was always about getting an early 11-2 or 5-1 about a 3-1 to 5-2 shot.
Guy called Jerry Croxford may be worth a google.
Think there still is a lot of merit in keeping an eye on academia, although i'm well aware that the old "white paper" community has become a very competitive industry now and there is big corporate money at the research table but even if you have no interest in the actual subject matter that is being modeled or studied, it still may generate an idea or two if you look at say "type" of study or methodology used and that then may be applied to your own chosen field of interest. For example there is a ton of literature out there in this space that concerns different rating/ranking methods being applied to various sports. The interest for me lies in not that exact sport but the methods or models used within.
As this thread concerns the rating of greyhounds, there was an abstract put out in 2016 at the MATHSPORT conference in Melbourne by another Australian chap by the name of Anthony Bedford. The one page abstract is down below but iv'e never come across the actual paper.
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These days there are tons of these Sports conferences which are a good source for this kind of stuff and they attract mathematicians, statisticians. modelers and performance coaches but the Mathsport people were one of the first and are still going. Most of the papers are available for free as well. Nowadays "gambling" papers are more inclusive and the field of "prediction" has become big business.
