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Originally Posted by pmacdaddy
Seems like the way you grade has a lot to do with how your A,B,C structure pans out.
I find myself being very stingy with A's. This makes me not really comfortable limiting my cover tickets to just A's and C's. Ended up using B+'s as well.
Guess it is all relative as long as you are comfortable with the horses that end up on your ticket.
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I agree with all of this.
Basically this whole idea was borne out of discussions I have with Byk about how hard it is to hit Pick-6s. For example, suppose you make a play for like $200 like Steve often does, and you have five of six, it is often easy to say that you could have had the one you missed on your ticket. OK, fine, but at what cost? You can't legitimately say that you used two in the race you missed and he would have been the third horse ( bringing the ticket to roughly $300 ) without seeing where else you would have added horses. If you had to add even only three other horses to also include that winner your ticket begins to approach $1200 or more.
Personally I am not putting a lot into Pick-6s lately so the first thing I do is try to make a play I am comfortable with. If that play is over $2000 I realize it is a reasonably tough one to hit, and while I may play for a couple hundred just in case I am randomly really " smart, I won't play for $600 because that is too much to throw away.