Re: mechanics. Approx. 30% of favs win. 60% placed, this figure doesn't seem to alter much (so they tell me) whether Sat only or any day. Also the same figures seems to hold up with actual favs. or pre-post favs. Now presumably the odds are arrived by a mechanical handicapping technique involving all known parameters. The resulting loss seems to be equally mechanical i.e. approx 9% on t/o (depending who you talk to)improved slightly with using top fluc.

So Crash it seems you are right, we're sunk without that "personal" judgement, especially regarding "VALUE"