****** is that!! It's something most of us use every betting day? It's refining selections by adding combinations of different filters to hopefully increase you Expected Probability of winning beyond the norm.

You might use four factors to handicap a horse, let's say it's 4 ranks of whatever filter. So a combination of 1-1-1-1 ranks,is the optimum wish list combination, however everyone else is looking to use it as well. The result, you end up losing, coz there's no value there.

I rank every selection in a race with a Combinatorial score. In a 7 horse race the optimum would be 1-1-1-1 to the worst 7-7-7-7. I liken it to a poker machine spinning 4 wheels. OK, so what! Well if you gather enough scores, and at the same time deduct losses and add wins attributable to each score, you start to find a pattern of profitable to non profitable combinations. Use a Vlookup of the profitable ones to trigger bets. There's going to be a lot of deviation from the mean happening here too, what looks like a good combination can be hit by an unexpected run of accidents, when you least expect. It's an averaging exercise

Put some order into your betting methods, and it will return spades.