There is no forward with him, Gov.

It's more like this...

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If the theory of 67% can't back up was true, then one can assume that 33% can.
What a lovely punting opportunity that would be for an intelligent alien like Tornado.
You see, all he would have to do generally is to delete the 67% who, through his ingenious system are highlighted from past failures, cover the remaining 2 or 3 dogs in the race and win nearly every time!
Effectively he's betting on a 2 or 3 dog race every time!
Absolutely brilliant!
Nooo, he says because of a weakened breed it's all too hard.
Make it a 14 day break so he has to unravel the winner from 8 dogs instead of 2 or 3 dogs!?!?!?!?!
What a warm caring human being he is.

He calculates ALL distance dogs to arrive at the conclusion 67% of ALL can't back up, yet admits he doesn't allow for INTERFERENCE.
So he has two baskets...1. Backed up 2. Didn't back up. If you got a hip and shoulder mate, bad luck its not accounted for and you go into the "Didn't back up" basket.
So the premise of taking ALL dogs into account relies on "What time" rather than "What happened time".
Well, I guess it saves a bit of "time"...bugger the accuracy.

Speaking of averages, 99.9% of people here(Tornado being the self-agreed .01%) would agree that a heat/final winner in faster time is a fairly accurate indication that it met minimal interference allowing it to demonstrate its ability to back up successfully...no?
Far more transparent than the highly sophisticated two basket-no interference calculated genius record keeping of toe tapping Tornado.

It's OK, Torn...you are right and the rest of the world is wrong.
Of course they are...

It's gone beyond ridiculous... It's embarrassing.

Tally ho.

But when it suits his argument he will give you a blow by blow description as well as a breakfast and emptying out report from the trainer to provide why a dog improved it times

Bruce Teague wrote:

Sandro, It was not missed at all. You failed to check. I pointed out that True Detective was a victim of unfamiliarity with the BGC710m in its heat - particularly the first turn near the 600m boxes - and therefore ran moderate time. It ran all over the track, thereby increasing its elapsed time. In any event, its final winning time was still barely average and slower than two other dogs ran in the heats. My guess is that the 700s are a fraction beyond its best distance but it may prove me wrong.

This analysis is probably very sound but if this kind of analysis was done for all the beaten greyhounds as well rather than just put in the ''Didn't Back Up'' basket, willy nilly, then maybe his ratings would have more credibility

Then, apart from interference and injury, there is the X factor, some dogs chase hard one week when they are near the lead and quite a few in the staying ranks. don't chase as hard when they lose sight of the lure which has nothing to do with 'not backing up' for purely physical reasons, onlymental state.

Its far too convenient in Torn's stats to account for those dogs into that category

His stats are therefore too random to consider for any reason at all, either for punting or for policy changes, even though in them somewhere there is an extremely small element of the truth where some dog may have outperformed in a previous week and not backed up.

Therefore, in conclusion, in absence of any other concrete evidence, the rest of us are still correct and Torn is still bugling

Toot Toot

Touch.

I think the bugle boy has had his last blow...so to speak.

Bruce Teague wrote:

Ryan, I see you are having problems understanding a complex issue.... First, your system of personally identifying and quantifying en route interference met by each dog - wherever it occurs - is unsound and unhelpful for various reasons - mainly that it is subjective and also because dogs which hit interference in one race tend to do it in others. So we do not use it.....

a dog gets interfered with in one race, therefore it gets interfered with in another ? wtf it's hexed?

much rather be subjective thank you !

Umm, oh gee, I may be going out on a limb here, but maybe they do bump with each other because there are usually 8 in a race all going for early positions.

Toot toot

As I read it, you claim that my "stats are therefore too random to consider for any reason at all" but your stats are fine.

Since the sources are basically the same, how does that work?

Otherwise, please refer to my earlier post about collecting and interpreting statistics, particularly apples and oranges.

I think he's referring to the monthly Meekathara races for blind Greyhounds.
I'm pretty sure even the local tipster there calculates roughly how many lengths the dog loses from week to week.

The mind boggles doesn't it...
I'm also pretty sure there was no repeat business for his Gold rated betting accessory he was selling once they found out it was made of lead.

Tornado you have to learn to say i am wrong it will help clean your soul wash away the bad jew jew you have within you ..

All the best for 2020 Tornado
best wishes
Guru Kev

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Ryan,

I would have thought that people with lots of hands-on experience with dogs would have noted this point. Like humans, some dogs are clumsy and tend to hit things, usually just running into the backside of another dog or just tangling legs and falling. For example, Sweet It Is did it all the time.

If you keep crediting such a runner with the resultant interference you will soon have it running 20 lengths faster than the track record.

And I still hear no answer to my query about how these credits get assessed for races away from the given track or state. That will be relevant for tonight's Plate at Wenty as well as the upcoming series at Cannington. That's a lot of races, careers and videos to work out.

You said, "Disappointing thing is you cldn't help yourself by publicly slagging off yet another organisation in the process of justifying your database. I was wondering how long it wld take when you first mentioned Sure Pick. You do the same thing to people who have a different view to you".

IF you read my post more carefully you would see that I said Sure Pick was a fair enough deal (but others were not) but that I did not agree with an aspect of their system. Like you, their basic public program encouraged people to make allowances for interference - something which I have found unsubstantiated and misleading. Such is life.

Over time I have had quite a few chats with Sure Pick folk - possibly much more than you have (did you buy their program or are you just waffling?). In any event they soon realised a commercial program was a dead duck and so withdrew it, as I have done, too.

If you can't handle people disagreeing with you on technical matters then that's your loss, not mine.

You need to read your own posts more carefully, Torn, because they get more absurd the more you write.

"SOME dogs are clumsy..."
So you rate a time on a dog as "not backing up" because SOME dogs are clumsy therefore we must ignore all interference?
If someone hits your car from behind you say, "Don't worry about it mate, my fault, I'm just a clumsy old fool"?

No other interference happens in a race except to ONLY the clumsy ones?

Did you ever do some writing for the Monty Python boys?

As for your last paragraph, I had found a respectable way to do that as well and for some tracks even sectionally. Yes it is a lot of work.

I had a really good mentor and was very fortunate I did....he's still full time and a brilliant judge(one of those subjective ones).

Gotta run Valleys on. Cheers boys.

You are obviously playing dumb...you can read what I wrote, I am not going to indulge you and repeat it

Toot Toot

1. Steve and Sandro's comprehensive examples of how stayers can and do back up.

2. Torny's statement that determining interference is "unhelpful" and "unsubstantiated".

I'm sure 99.99% see the picture very clearly.

Ten years of propaganda down the drain, Tornado.

Torn (luv it) is still not feeling and seeing it.

WHATEVER

1st 5. TRUE DETECTIVE

2nd 7. BLUE MOON RISING

3rd 3. BLUE SUMMER SKY

4th 2. JUST TERMS

I have not bothered to compare heats/final times.

I will leave that for Bruce...he can then adjust his program to suit the result.