19th July 2013, 11:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
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Originally Posted by Brett V.02
Hi All,
I have tried everything in the last month to continue my system's winning start. But voodoo, animal sacrifice and re-enacting the big fella's Easter weekend has failed to resurrect the once heady heights of the systems beginning.
So it has made me think (as has Darky's continued challenging of all I have ever believed in when it comes to racing - past results are the promised land).
When is a system not a system when it is a system while not being one???....... Now I know this reads confused (which by the way I am) but what I mean by this is............. why is it that System players and Ratings gurus are always at each others throats.......
Aren't systems just a very basic form of ratings anyway?
I mean if you take a basic system, for example, a 4YO horse who has a 30%+ win S/R and placed it last start, aren't you rating the field.
So if a horse meets these criteria it is our 100 rater and is our bet.
More importantly, are people who are rating horses, just assigning a numerical value to factors they perceive as important, exactly the same as a systems player, except for the fact that they have many more factors and do not exclude selections based on criteria that return a 0 value.........unless you add filters......
So we are back to my confused self.............When is a system not a system when it is a system while not being one???
And if the 'Brains-trust' on here can not help me, it could be time to play the stock market..............
Cheers
Brett
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There is a huge difference between a system and rating, or there is none.
A basic system is rigid, set in stone so to say, like your example.
"a 4YO horse who has a 30%+ win S/R and placed it last start"
For a systemateer it makes no difference where the horse ran last time what weight it carried what distance, what class of race or the quality of other horses taking part in the race and many other variables.
This is a system of the worst kind.
You can modify it by taking other variables into account according to the up-coming race in question and then you have both, a system and rating, they'll be the same under different names.
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