Going Inaccuracies Other Stuff
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:01 am
Hi martin,
With the huge issue of inaccurate going assessments and certain watering policies on certain tracks and going changes in mid race on a daily basis like at Newcastle last Tuesday and the farce that was Sandown last Friday would it not be wise to ascertain the going descriptions from time based results. The Racing Post is totally inaccurate re going reports and cant be bothered even to change things on there results pages. A look at time based and official going reports tells this sad story every other day. Timeform on the other hand are very accurate with their going assessments. I'm not sure if your using the RPost to draw data from but i presume you are. Their in running comments have also become very unprofessional. When I use Patternform I don't use the going filter which I dont trust. I refer to TForm which can draw things out. Can u confirm if Patternform is using RPost ground descriptions, if yes are they time based or official.
Another small addition to site would be to clearly label tracks as Left Handed or Right Handed in Track Config sheet and now that race distances are to 0.50 in Rpost(20.5f) could this be added. Tform go to 0.10(8.1F). I also believe there is too much going on with Surface filter and it might be worth thinking about keeping the uphill and downhill side of things to the finish or run-in only. This would need another filter box of course but the filter itself is already in the Configuration box. Track surfaces need only be Flat, Undulating, Severely Undulating, it totally confuses me at the moment. What does undulating mainly uphill mean. Undulating the word means to display a smooth rising and falling which is all I need to know.
These are just suggestions Martin and I know in the past you are very open to improving the site as you did when I suggested the Pace V2 figures which you implemented and are a gift. Keep up the great work and thanks again for keeping this site free. The info on here is priceless and the new price movement graphs are great addition.
Barry
With the huge issue of inaccurate going assessments and certain watering policies on certain tracks and going changes in mid race on a daily basis like at Newcastle last Tuesday and the farce that was Sandown last Friday would it not be wise to ascertain the going descriptions from time based results. The Racing Post is totally inaccurate re going reports and cant be bothered even to change things on there results pages. A look at time based and official going reports tells this sad story every other day. Timeform on the other hand are very accurate with their going assessments. I'm not sure if your using the RPost to draw data from but i presume you are. Their in running comments have also become very unprofessional. When I use Patternform I don't use the going filter which I dont trust. I refer to TForm which can draw things out. Can u confirm if Patternform is using RPost ground descriptions, if yes are they time based or official.
Another small addition to site would be to clearly label tracks as Left Handed or Right Handed in Track Config sheet and now that race distances are to 0.50 in Rpost(20.5f) could this be added. Tform go to 0.10(8.1F). I also believe there is too much going on with Surface filter and it might be worth thinking about keeping the uphill and downhill side of things to the finish or run-in only. This would need another filter box of course but the filter itself is already in the Configuration box. Track surfaces need only be Flat, Undulating, Severely Undulating, it totally confuses me at the moment. What does undulating mainly uphill mean. Undulating the word means to display a smooth rising and falling which is all I need to know.
These are just suggestions Martin and I know in the past you are very open to improving the site as you did when I suggested the Pace V2 figures which you implemented and are a gift. Keep up the great work and thanks again for keeping this site free. The info on here is priceless and the new price movement graphs are great addition.
Barry