4th April 2010, 05:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
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Let me be perfectly candid here and reveal all my cards, as I think it's only fair with what I'm about to post.
I own a copy of Bet Selector Platinum Professional
I developed and market RaceCensus Horseracing Database with the help of this site.
Both products have pluses and minuses to them.
One product will suit some type of punters and the other is an alternative to the other.
Both products are tools to help punters, and both have their place in the market.
I'll try and explain the main differences:
RaceCensus was originally developed as a cheaper alternative and a bare bones system tester that had past data and didn't cost the earth.
The other product takes an extremely long time to analyse results, because ratings are calculated on the fly. So to change one parameter and rerun a test takes in excess of 9 solid hours, even after a computer defrag.
However, the other product can download form and results and automatically parse the data.
Since time has gone on and RaceCensus has developed a little and so has PPP, I became a little unsatisfied with the way in which ratings were calculated. The forecast prices became extraordinarily unrealistic at times.
However, PPP has it's place and is a good product, if you want print outs of the days bets etc.
RaceCensus by comparison cannot download form and results, but can be updated monthly via importing a simple spreadsheet.
By comparison, system tests are lightning fast, for example a test in one program takes 9 hours and 45 minutes on a Pentium 3Ghz with 2GB ram.
Racecensus takes 2 minutes 45 seconds (once the records have been indexed for the first time). This is a massive difference when making adjustments to system tests along the way and re running them.
RaceCensus is currently being updated with Metro AND Country races since 1998. Many errors are picked up by my program that go undetected in others, because I am alerted to index mismatches or missing data.
Nothing is added to the program that hasn't been either popular request, or is beneficial to the punter (i.e. it works).
Example: I'll never price an unraced horse at 1000/1 not knowing anything about it at all, it seems totally illogical to me.
But different people have different expectations and requirements.
I am currently working on "time" as I've mentioned, but won't add it until I'm perfectly satisfied with it's performance over years of data.
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