8th July 2005, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by KennyVictor
I . It will be racing at Ellerslie or New Zealand or perhaps it will be at Broadmeadow or Newcastle. The Jockey can be Ms E Wright, E Wright or Eileen Wright or quite possibly the wrong jockey entirely. You don't realise how bad the standard of data is on the net until you try to match it all up.
Still, if it was easy anybody could do it couldn't they? :-)
KV
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Hi KV!
Yes that could happen, although I use Cyberhorse data which is quite good as far as uniformity goes.
For track names, jockeys and trainers I introduced my own standard abbreviations, so the programme will automatically pick up the different spelling of the obviously same name! Getting data from the same source helps of course.
For horse names I tend to use tab number for identification instead, and always using racedate, racenumber, race venue as a unique handle mistakes are almost impossible to make.
Good luck with your projects! (as they say on 3AW on the morning show) |