13th February 2011, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by garyf
i actually rang to confirm the data after spending at least half an hour on the phone and going through numerous examples he said to me the $$$ settings and the distance columns were interpreting the wrong data nothing more nothing less he stated that the $$$ column was to identify the 1st down to the last horse in the order of the prizemoney won then too put that figure as a rating so the highest ranked api will always be the horse with the highest rating same as the days criteria horses racing in around the 7 days will always get 20 points down to horses resuming from a spell will get a rating of 1-2 etc no great mystery really maybe you could give him a call to confirm that they are working on these two columns only as again i state they are interpreting the wrong read his words exactly to me on thursday
cheers
garyf
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garyf,
this only confirms my reluctance to use ratings I have no control over.
But leave that aside, instead of trying to find complicated explanations, this whole thing could simply be a matter of wrong data feed or even as simple as a "<" instead of ">" in a sorting routine, where the lowest ranked gets to the top instead of the highest.
God knows it happens more often than not, in the world of coding.
Cheers
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