If you are purely waiting to back overs on your ratings, then you are reducing the number of bets. And the number of profitable bets. And therefore the amount of profit available. If your rating system is profitable, find the flaws that leak the extra profit, rather than just go for overs.

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Mark Read used to advocate backing the overs to return a fixed amount ( say 1000 ) and then multiply the bet by the overs fraction ( e.g 1.5 times the basic bet if you can get 6/1 about a rated 4/1 ).

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Please let me break even. I need the money.

I don't have databases and so forth, but all these suggestions, trials etc, they come from the old school of punting days, where things were not as quick as they are today.
Today, the computers/internet and the speed of price updates/information; Does the strategy of yester-year work OK today,
given the fact the old school lads would or could not have forseen the technology and speed of price fluctuation on show ?

I have given this ago over the last couple days but today was a big test in some ways.

I dutched 2 units at my prices per race.

Races 77
Winning 34
S/R 44.16%
U/Race 2 bet
A/U 3.11 win
A/Runners 3.38 per race
Some nice overs on a couple
Rated Backed
5. Civil Rights 9.32-- 17
12. Desert General 13-- 26
4. Nevagotavote 5.74-- 29
1. Remagen Bridge 7.57-- 16
8. Tillzale 6.15-- 17
13. Bellevue Avenue 14.96-- 22

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Can someone help me.
I can't work out two of the abbreviations above.
Can someone give the total outlay return etc,
I get (strike/rate) (aver runners) but what's( U/RACE,)
(AU) can't work those two out,(L.O.L) been a long day I guess.


Cheers.

All good mate, i could have put it better, the first is 2 Units bet each race, all runners are dutched in to this amount so all prices are worked out and the total bet equals 2 units

AU is average units won per race, so my average was 3.11 so i was getting a little over 50% profit on average per winning race, i suppose would have been easier to just workout the outlay and the return.

Outlay 154
Return 183.25
Profit 29.25
POT 18.99%

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