For the past couple of weeks we have been working round the clock on getting some new information ready for the system builder. It will hopefully be passed across after horse racing has finished this evening.
Its been pretty hectic and at times it feels like the endless spreadsheet and database checking etc is starting to take over. When i close my eyes at night i see lines of data! Nonetheless it will be worth it and will give some more horse racing categories to breakdown (requested by users).
Still ongoing are the Speed and Stall data projects. Both of these will be rolled out soon.
The stalls in particular are really frustrating - just when you think you are getting there, something new crops up and as its all about accuracy, you often find its two steps forward and eight steps back!
For example at many of the tracks sometimes stalls are placed in the centre for 5 furlong races, other times they are attached to the rail - whats irritating is that when your backdating and gathering this data, often it feels like it was just whatever suited at the time!
It will be great once ready though as all the horse track stall analysis i have came across is incorrectly collated, using a numerical sort and then showing results. This is of no use at all if on some days the stalls went from high numbers on the inside and then at other times low numbers!
Like all the projects we undertake its getting the older data and verifying it thats the main issue, keeping it up to date is far easier (thankfully!).
An example of this was the stallion data. It took us ages but now we just update for each time a new horse runs and its working out really well with some great information easily at hand to perform statistical breakdowns on.
Thats all for now - back to spreadsheet lands for me now!
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