30th September 2005, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Sportz
Crash,
As I said, I'm not having a go at you or this system. It's just that I've seen many systems that use barriers 1-7 and it just doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Why should barrier 7 be successful and barrier 8 not? I suppose if you're making a rule regarding barriers, you have to have a cutoff point somewhere. I just can't quite work out why it's 7.
If someone can reproduce some figures regarding barriers, it would be appreciated.
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I remember reading in some book that barriers 1-6 win proportionally more than their fair share of races, eg:
say, B1 represents 7.2% of all runners in races, but wins 7.9% of all races.
From barrier 7 onwards it begins to fall away.
I'll see if i can dig the figures up |