[AusRace] Good Betting and Racing Guide (GBRG) - Malcolm Knowles - a system

[i8work at aussiebb.com.au]

Knowles/Inracing left the room in 2016 according to below-"a  Google 
search reveals nothing"....did you really look Tony?

For interests sake, as a former Wizard user

https://www.punters.com.au/forum/horse-racing/malcolm-knowles-shuts-up-shop_79342/

Tally Moyston.....nil for me also

On 2020-08-28 12:54, Tony Moffat wrote:
> Tally Moyston 'I'm Backing These' - a system.
> 
> Tally Moyston used to be on the internet as a provider of horse racing 
> tips
> - FREE - on a daily basis, before scratchings and more often before 
> midnight
> the night before, if that makes sense.
> 
> He? ranked each runner on earnings, the best/most got a one. Days since 
> last
> start - most recent runner also got a one, barrier scores seemed to
> correspond with barrier allocation - barrier one scored one, and last 
> start
> finish position was also ranked - a win got a one , 2nd a 2.
> 
> Then he multiplied these values together and obtained a final score for 
> each
> runner. So a top earner 1 * most recent start 1* barrier 1* last start
> finish position 1 = 1*1*1*1 resulted in 1 -the value for that runner.
> 
> Tally was on air for that couple of hours also, you could text him? 
> about
> things racing, rugby, fishing, shooting, and he was a Brainiac when it 
> came
> to systems (choosing your procedure when betting) and he knew a lot of 
> them
> by name, actions, inclinations, machinations, results, and he stated 
> that a
> few of them worked, or, worked often enough to stay in the black at 
> least,
> and what was needed was a mild progression staking plan which he got 
> with
> Malcolm Knowles Power of Ten, manual entry, and perhaps later with the
> software version. Knowles incorporated equations, and more, to 
> determine bet
> size, divisor, trend analysis, 'nudging' and bet recording. Essentially 
> once
> your strike rate is established, it is entered as a value then 
> moderated as
> results arrive, and if you score less than the average the software
> determines that your betting would assume the average, and do so in 
> quick
> time, and it was just these occasions that the bets could be maximized. 
> Ok,
> I have left most of the method of working out of that explanation, but 
> Tally
> had his 'mild progression staking plan' and he was rapt.
> 
> Malcolm Knowles was with The Wizard first up and crunched, and 
> tabulated,
> shedloads of data relating to racing, published his findings and wrote 
> and
> published 11 books appertaining to the punt. He went off freelance and
> formed Inracing which had data scores similar to The Wiz.
> 
> Malcolms son Tristian had a cancer episode whilst young and to support
> research and treatment of junior age cancer victims Malcolm wrote and
> published The Good Betting and Racing Guide (GBRG) under the auspices 
> of the
> Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. He raised a lot of money for 
> them,
> and continued supporting Tristian with his Kids Cancer Foundation. The
> Foundation is now closed. Tristian has a successful business career and 
> is a
> gun wheelchair basketball player, and is a representative for Australia 
> in
> several Olympic Games.
> 
> The GBRG uses ratings to sum to a final score for each runner. Malcolm 
> has
> provided tables of calculations (rating values) for API, Barrier, Days 
> since
> last start, and Barrier. The book contains voluminous tables for 
> barriers in
> metro racing, field size, prize money distribution, days since last 
> start,
> pre-post to starting price conversions, in fact most common data fields 
> are
> covered.
> 
> The various input data rows are summed for each runner. Only runners
> totalling 40 points or more are considered, races less than 2000m only,
> there are runner number restrictions also, .
> Eg a runner finishing 5th in Sydney has a rating value of 9, running 
> 4th is
> 9.4, running 6th is 5.9...
> A runner whose last start was 15-21 days ago has a rating value of 8.5,
> 11-14 days = 9.2, 22-28 days =9.6
> A runner starting in Barrier 5 at Canterbury has a rating value of 6.3,
> W.Farm - 11.5, R'hill - 10.4, Randwick 10.1
> The derivatives of these ratings are not given, nor explained, but they
> would be stats based.
> 
> Now Tally (remember him?) reckoned the GBRG was the best thing ever and
> changed over his ratings from his own arithmetic to that of GBRG until 
> he
> had an epiphany it seems. If GBRG rankings were higher than his own 
> rankings
> the associated runner was almost always going to place, and they won
> somewhat better than 66% (he said). Ok you had to wait for the race, it
> wasn't every race like, but at least you could do your homework the 
> evening
> before, sometimes on Thursday for Saturday. Tally moved on from the 
> final
> summed score in GBRG. He ranked his top five or more in each race, and
> ranked the GBRG top five also. If GBRG exceeded his score, and the 
> runner
> was at least rated by both methods,  this was the way to go.
> 
> Tally is missing from the internet now, a  Google search reveals 
> nothing and
> the same goes for Malcolm and his Inracing.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tony