<div dir="ltr">Who was the referred to "betting bandito" Tony? </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 18:53, Tony Moffat <<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
The first PicWiz was a booklet, and this was followed by a DOS based system<br>
-both of these you entered data manually.<br>
<br>
Then PicWiz with ESP (estimated starting price) used Inracing data files to<br>
export/import data into this program and it was semi- automatic after that.<br>
Manual entry was still an option.<br>
<br>
There were 73 data points of interest that could be utilized, up from 5 in<br>
the first versions, and Inracing provided templates for some of these to<br>
enable you<br>
to enter and use data unique to you, that which you considered necessary,<br>
meaning important, which acted upon the Irat score (similar to Wizards<br>
Wrat).<br>
Irat was segregated into groupings 100,99,98,97,96, 95-92 and <92 and tables<br>
within the program applied corrections to Irat score depending on what data<br>
you chose to use.<br>
Apparently the consensus panel scoring was a strong indicator of the<br>
worthiness of a runner, the highest adjusted Irat score which is also the<br>
Irat 100 pointer is another,<br>
betting the overs provided by the ESP function had good POT%<br>
<br>
The ESP followed on from Malcolm Knowles studies printed first up in the<br>
centre pages of The Wizard. An algorithm was developed that attempted to<br>
predict a likely sp for all runners.<br>
There is no simple explanation for it, sorry, but generally it seemed to<br>
work, at least the price rankings were most often correct, the tried prices<br>
often on the money. A series of private and public tipster polls were used,<br>
in addition to other maths that resulted in a price line likely to represent<br>
the order of prices in practice. Using this information in the calculation,<br>
eg 31% of all runners firm, 61% of all runners ease, 8% of runners do not do<br>
either, fiming runners account for 53% of all winners, easing runners<br>
account for 40% of all winners. It was felt, found, that once a runners<br>
price firmed it would continue at that price, or firm again. <br>
<br>
The 'BettingBandido' may have used PicWiz as the basis for his selections,<br>
and he was making $450 k annually.<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Tony Moffat [mailto:<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com" target="_blank">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>] <br>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 8:38 PM<br>
<br>
Data for the PicWiz is still available from The Wizard<br>
<br>
Malcolm Knowles and Inracing ceased operation in December 2013. He was still<br>
including PicWiz prices in his data until the end.<br>
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Cheers<br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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