Some good points Chrome. Without stats. Hadicapping would be lost in the woods. Hermes point though about handicapping what a system throws up is a good point too. A system that has a 45% SR might be improved by 5/15% by throwing out selections that for whatever reason handicap as poor value. This information can also be used to fine tune the system rules.
Value is the name of the game and by whatever means is what we should look for. I regularly dump horses that I think will win purely because they represent poor value. In the long haul backing such runners will produce a loss, meaning that an 'any price a winner' mentality is to be strenuosly avoided.

Cheers.

[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2003-12-17 06:57 ]