26th March 2005, 03:09 PM
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The author would like to thank Prof. Myles Harding for developing a software routine for automatically extracting Totaliser information from www.tabcorp.com.au.
Wonder what Tabcorp would have to say about the breach of their copyright?
1. The research is fundamentally flawed, as assumptions have been made comparing apples with oranges.
2. The amount of data is not even close to being enough to draw any conclusions.
3. Field size has not been taken into account - of course greyhound win pool/place pool ratios will be different because of small fields.
4. The human element (jockey/driver) has nothing to do with the resultant data, different types of punters bet on the dogs on a Thursday night, than bet on a Saturday race day.
5. Box draw has replaced jockey or driver with the same result.
The illustration of the formula is fine though.
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