9th November 2011, 09:05 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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Originally Posted by lomaca
Can't work out how they do it, I have the number of races and added up the horse's winning and it agrees with the API I get automatically.
As far as I'm concerned this is not exactly a winning factor, so I don't use it, but still, it's intriguing what they do and why?
Although if I were to use it, I'd be inclined to use the last couple of years'
of earning at most, 12 months maybe a bit short, life time earnings may be utterly meaningless.
Just my opinion.
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TBH, my main concern is the consistency of the data. Have been looking at something on Uselessbettor's tester, which uses R&S data but only goes back to August. It would seem misleading, therefore, to look back at earlier data from other sources with regards to "API".
Hopefully, however R&S do calculate their API's, they have always been consistent; though I've even got some qualms about that now, given the peculiarities of the figures.
When I've done research in the past, I generally found that career API was an overbet factor. But that can be just as useful to know as the reverse! Twelve month figures I do believe have a slightly higher impact on strike rates, but I don't have any hard evidence to hand on that.
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