Thanks again stugots, I will look at it tonight. beton

few changes to also delete jockey/specials/antepost entries

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Thanks stugots. Off to the bookstore

came across another problem, product testing is such a b**ch

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I would not worry too much. what you have given is more than enough. I will look at it tonight. In the main it will give an indicative result. Either the result will be good which will then need accurate results or no good which means that we have an education exercise. Either way we win. Thanks stugots for your effort I will keep you posted on the results. beton

Stugots
Thanks for your sheet. I encountered a problem using it last night. I downloaded it, enabled the macros, then entered the data, changed the date and pressed create. all it wanted to do then is download the program off the forum again. A similar thing occurred when I pressed the render button.
If this is easy to fix then great. If not, I can presevere with the mark 1 model. I have purchased the excel for dummies books. I intend to learn this ASAP. beton

sounds weird, let me know your email & I will send thru a copy

wally at wallyhughes dot com dot au It was frustrating. Thanks stugots.

Stugots as you are the VBA Guru, I wanted to ask for your help. I want to open the Betfair data files and then extract the odds of the horses in each race, identify the winner in red font and sort (in ascending order) in rows.eg:
1.6 3.3 19 46 200 250
1.86 3.65 9.8 13 55
3.5 3.8 5.5 9.4 10 25 34
At present I have to manually mark the winner in red then Copy & Paste every race, then sort. The aim of the excercise is to look down columns of 1st Fav, 2nd Fav... and identify no. of consecutive losses and wins. Also Strike Rate, Average Div etc
The reasoning behind identifying no's of consecutive losses/wins is because they are the arch enemy of recovery staking plans. Most plans if staked right can handle two or three consecutive losses but any more and then followed shortly after by another loss and you've just been "shaken out of the tree". I was considering setting up multiple instances, using the same selection system, whereby instead of betting consecutive races each instance is programed to randomly miss a race or two or three in unison with each other so there's no double ups. Hopefully this will break up any clusters of losses. I'm not a mathematician and maybe this will have no affect?
Thanks in advance,
RP

As far as I know, Benjamin Franklin wasn't a scientist either. Interesting insights RP.. thanks for your contribution to date.

Cheers LG

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