[AusRace] Dynamic Race Odds -SmartData v2.05 - an appreciation

[Tony Moffat]

This was a spreadsheet with 90+ form elements, some too finite for me (think
win/place over varying distances, going etc).
 Initially you could display 75 or so (of the 90 elements) and this was
reduced to a display of 30 elements in recent years. The last version (it
was always called v2.05 however) removed the capability of changing mid
screen between elements, which was a pity.

There were three state displays of TAB dividends (tote history) and their
difference with each refresh - the refresh was clunky although I only used
manual and that worked for me, however you could fine it down to 1 second
increments, but why?

The sheet had a quinella, exacta matrix for each state and input from 15+
bookmakers (19 in the final version) and all of their dividends and times.

For a system tragic (that would be me) the sheet had almost everything you
needed. No times though, no last start form as such although days since last
run, finish position, margin were all shown. Anyway there was enough, and
varied, form information for this user to construct a rating and bet off
those.

Rating providers were represented too, WI6 while still operating, AAP,
RewardBet, Betfair etc., and others not named who came and went.

While detailed form for thoroughbred racing only was relatively complete,
dividends, quinella, exacta, bookmaker prices were provided for other
racing, overseas. Most days there were 250-300 races available to peruse -
that's a lot of losers.

There was tote history, and history for all bookmaker members.

It got turned off at 2100 (WA) yesterday - DRO still continues on the web
based app, shame about the Excel sheet though. It cost $55 month in the end,
up from $35 in the first days

Anybody know of a similar replacement?

Cheers

Tony


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