sorry to be a (dare I say it?) "partypooper" but ran this over a set of results for a place system of mine at 874 bets the end result was a loss of .o4%, which oddly enough was exactly the same as the level stakes loss??
maybe there is a lesson there?

There was a total of 5067 units bet using the ladder staking, which means there was an *average* bet of 5.804 units on 874 selections.

So unfortunately bags, this looks pretty conclusive. By the way we got to bet 20 10 times, bet 19 once, and bet 17 once.

The longest losing sequence was 7 ( once)