Becoming a better handicapper!

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

do you use glue...and make pretty ponys ..

It sounds like the expense of the materials used in these handicapping exercises exceeds the money this supposed handicapper is willing to risk on his own opinion.

Is there a cliff notes version of the initial post I can purchase?

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

i love these guys...got 5 diff color pens papers all over just about every horse marked on the form ...they lose and say..man i loved that horse its right here i marked it..lmfao

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

i love these guys...got 5 diff color pens papers all over just about every horse marked on the form ...they lose and say..man i loved that horse its right here i marked it..lmfao

Yeah and it's definitely five rattlers when they show you the losing ticket and they have every horse in the race boxed but the winner.

[blackthroatedwind]

I use five different colored pens to seperate different information....

Blue for the initial run through

Red for replay/trip notes

Green for Formulator info

Light Blue for breeding

Purple for final notes

[MisterB]

Don't you throw that stuff away at the Spa?

[SentToStud]

I have evolved FAR beyong using different color pens.

I now apply flourescent paint with a Taco Bell Chilupa wrapper to my Racing Form in my specially designed laboratory.

I then study the results under a black light while speaking on the phone with Mystic Zelda, just in case something isn't crystal clear.

[MisterB]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

I have evolved FAR beyong using different color pens.

I now apply flourescent paint with a Taco Bell Chilupa wrapper to my Racing Form in my specially designed laboratory.

I then study the results under a black light while speaking on the phone with Mystic Zelda, just in case something isn't crystal clear.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

i love these guys...got 5 diff color pens papers all over just about every horse marked on the form ...they lose and say..man i loved that horse its right here i marked it..lmfao

And the best is that when they do that, it's almost always to something completely benign.

They've managed to highlight something like a horse's career earnings.

Say, in a Mcl10000 race at Hawthorne, a few first-time starters and lightly raced horses with no earnings compete against a horse with a career line something like this 29-0-0-4 $14,128

Then they can redboard that one when it finally gets a win at 35-1 after running off the board 10 straight times.

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

It sounds like the expense of the materials used in these handicapping exercises exceeds the money this supposed handicapper is willing to risk on his own opinion.

i got you whipped, i got one of those giant crayola boxes WITH the sharpener built in!

This makes perfect sense to me.

When a team of coaches, professional or college, say

decides to get down and dirty in terms of preparation for a critical oponent
( A BIG GAME, if you will)

what they do is analyze, to exhaustion, the stats of their oponent.
For example, in BBALL, this would be: #of freethrows, shooting percentage, fastbreak points, points off turnovers, etc.

This is where all the different colored pens come into play : a different color for each stat. Thus, the team scoring more points than it gives up, playing an oponent that scores less and gives up more, for example, WOULD BE A LOCK.

Even though they have scouts out there watching every game, and coaches whose job is solely to break down film, they don't bother with any of this superflous information and STRICTLY rely on the Daily Racing Forum of BBALL (whatever that might be)

Let's face it, once you develop intuitions about your data and can creatively utilize it (better than your competitors), why in the world would you want to actually analyze the thing itself?

Oh, and all the BS about the best coaches being the hardest workers - in particlular, those that watch THE MOST FILM - is just that: BS


Yeah, and the stats guys, not the hands on types, usually make the best coaches.

yeah