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The way in which Bet Selector generates horse ratings for past races underwent a major improvement in mid 2009 with the release of Bet Selector Platinum Professional. For the technically inclined, details on the changes can be found below. The bottom line is the changes have led to improvements in the program's ability to pick winners both from future horse ratings and from horse ratings systems. You can check out the program's rating for the past 7 days free at www.bestform.com.au
Until now Bet Selector could accurately rate past runs at just 50 of the major tracks (and even for some of them it was just a close approximation). Now thanks to Steven Angelides work on par times at PPFA, Bet Selector can now accurately rate past runs at all distances from over 700+ tracks including New Zealand and Hong Kong! Not only can the program now do a comparison against par time for all these new track/distance combinations, it can also access par times for all track conditions at these tracks (previously an approximation was used for the rate at which times slowed as conditions became wetter). As a result, past horse ratings are now much more accurate particularly for provincial and country tracks.
Following is some feedback on the new horse ratings:
Using Track Specific Par times will be more accurate and definitely puts BS miles ahead of anything that anyone else is doing...In my opinion, this is the most significant improvement in the program from a form analysis and horse ratings point of view since Bet Selector was initially released all those years ago. I for one would under no circumstances use the OLD BS format ever again. - Steven Angelides, 25/4/09
Now every track, every distance and every condition has the exact, proper par time. You can't get the time anymore accurate than using the exact time, not some formula that treats every track the same. Now you can bet all days, tracks, distances and conditions and have confidence in the horse ratings. THINK, how can the time on the 2 Randwick tracks be the same. It can't and it wasn't. Now we have 2 tracks 2 sets of exact times. We have to have a better rating. Testing over the past 5 or 6 days, however, new against old on 2 computers, with Steve, over the phone, I can say we found many horses that improved there rated position and as a result many of those won. I can also say we haven't as yet found any instance of a horse that had been over valued, ie to be given a higher rating than it deserved, that actually won. In other words the new horse rating not only improves the position of the past poorly rated runner, it kicks out the overrated runner. The bottom line is, we wanted better ratings. Neale and Steve got together and low and behold we have better ratings. - Dinodog, 25/4/09
One thing must be remembered BS was ahead of its time with the time database it has, realistically only in the last few years it has become possible to compile a bulletproof database that BS needs to be able to calculate the horse ratings, previously the information was not easily obtained and maintained which prevents programs like this using them. Even at this stage, Steve is the time keeper, working on his database most days to ensure that it is in top, up to date shape, this is the commitment needed to maintain such vast pool of data, a commitment most others cannot make or you pay through the nose for. Knowing something about speed ratings I would categorically say that improvement must occur...This is such a fundamental and positive change that to call this an upgrade is an understatement. It’s a new program. Simple as that. Looks like the old one, will function nothing like it. - Michal, 26/4/09
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