The higher you weight this value the more it will favour horses with a high place strike rateĪs with Career Win Rate, this factor relates to a horse's place percentage throughout their career, rather than simply their total number of placings. a horse with one win from one start will have the best Career Win Rate possible at 100% whereas a horse that has won four from five would only be at 80% despite having built an outstanding record. this relates to strike rate only, not total number of wins, i.e. If you think winning form is the best form then this factor will help you isolate the horses with the best winning strike rates. The higher you weight this value the more it will favour horses with a high win strike rate. That's not to say it it doesn't have value but it must be used in conjunction with other factors. N.b. It can pay to be careful with this form factor because if it's set to 100% it will simply adjust each horse according to its barrier number, thereby over-influencing the results display. Some tracks and starting positions are widely considered to favour horses drawn closer to the rail this factor allows you to cater for that. The higher you weight this value the more it will favour horses with inside barriers This theory applies mostly to Handicaps however, you can argue that the Standard WFA scale is designed to reflect at which Age/Sex horses will be at their prime and therefore the horses carrying the most weight will often be the best. The weight allocation in a handicap is designed to level the playing field, but a high weight is still indicative of good ability. So while weight can stop trains, it can also be a very good guide to a horse's ability. Typically speaking, especially for Handicaps, the more weight the horse has to carry the better the horse is. The higher you weight this value the more it will favour horses carrying big weights In other words, the more form a horse (and by extension 'field') has, the more effective the Predictor will be. And it follows that unraced horses won't have any data for any of the form factors. So bear this in mind, especially if you're isolating a single factor. Please Note: Horses that don't have any data for a particular factor will be assigned 0%. See the table below for an explanation on how each element in the predictor relates to a horse's form. Use the slide bars under 'Settings' that correspond with each factor to set how much importance you want to place on each of them.įor example, if you slide the Career Win Rate up to 100% and Distance up to 50%, it will order the horses in the field based on those two criteria with a strong emphasis placed on horses with a high winning strike rate and a reasonable amount of emphasis placed on horses that have been successful over the trip.Įach of the elements can be used in conjunction with each other to give you the predicted outcome. The Predictor works by applying a weighted percentage of importance to each of the respective form factors.
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