New Posts For Thread: Collateral ratings - Lily's Star- A shoe-in 4.10 curraghhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/30011633/collateral-ratings---lilys-star--a-shoe-in-410-curraghA curiosity for handicappers. Lily's Star (4.10 Curragh) was reckoned to have improvd by 21 lb on RPR's last time - which should make it a shoe-in today. Except that was its 47th run!To get around this that run is ignored in the RPR adjusted ratings.Almost certainly a computerised rating which no-one looked at or if they did probably just said that the rest fit, that's an abberation. It's the old old problem of conditions race form in handicaps not being reliable. Fundamentally, it's a problem ihttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/30011633/collateral-ratings---lilys-star--a-shoe-in-410-curragh?post_id=534052965#534052965Almost certainly a computerised rating which no-one looked at or if they did probably just said that the rest fit, that's an abberation. It's the old old problem of conditions race form in handicaps not being reliable. Fundamentally, it's a problem iSun, 21 Jul 2013 10:29:55 -0500Because of the sheer volume of racing now I suspect many of these ratings are arrived at by computer algorithms, with maybe some manual tweaking. I don't know about RPRs but I've seen many discrepancies with Topspeed ratings. For instance, I have Danhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/30011633/collateral-ratings---lilys-star--a-shoe-in-410-curragh?post_id=534048777#534048777Because of the sheer volume of racing now I suspect many of these ratings are arrived at by computer algorithms, with maybe some manual tweaking. I don't know about RPRs but I've seen many discrepancies with Topspeed ratings. For instance, I have DanSun, 21 Jul 2013 07:45:09 -0500A curiosity for handicappers. Lily's Star (4.10 Curragh) was reckoned to have improvd by 21 lb on RPR's last time - which should make it a shoe-in today. Except that was its 47th run!To get around this that run is ignored in the RPR adjusted ratings.https://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/30011633/collateral-ratings---lilys-star--a-shoe-in-410-curragh?post_id=534027621#534027621A curiosity for handicappers. Lily's Star (4.10 Curragh) was reckoned to have improvd by 21 lb on RPR's last time - which should make it a shoe-in today. Except that was its 47th run!To get around this that run is ignored in the RPR adjusted ratings.Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:07:58 -0500