REVISED October 1 Santa Anita Points Results

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by cal828

OK, a few questions. I am not questioning my score because I too came up with 86 points, but I still do not really understand the scoring system. I pretty much understand everything, but exactas for some reason and I think the confusion comes in with the ABCs and Xs. So here is my question. If you choose a horse in your first three that does not finish in the top three, is that an X? And if you have an exacta as Ruffian did in race 6 where she had the place horse in the second slot and the win horse in the third slot, would that be a BC and since her top pick did not finish in the top 3 would that then make it XBC? I know it wouldn't, as there is no XBC, but seems like it would make more sense, if there was.

Cal, I'll keep it simple . . . the only way I know how and sometimes its so simple it gets complicated to me or I just screw it up.

There can be an XAB, XBA, XAC, XCA, XBC and a XCB all worth 5 points. All of these combinations when any horse you pick in the tooo three does not win but when one of your picks does win you can have a AXB, AXC, BXA, BXC CXA and a CXB each worth 5 points also. Plenilune could explin this much better I'm sure and I believe the basic Scoring Rules of the game are accurate as well. Somewhat oganized alphabet soup.

There's a highly advanced master spead sheet that takes care of all of this "magically", all advanced sreadsheets seem magic to me, that I did not develop. Plenilune sent to me to use while she recooperates but when I open it up my mind goes to mush, so I use a much simpler, manual input, spreadsheet of my own.

And reading what I just wrote doesn't sound very simple either.