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I'm having a breakdown

15 Aug 11 09:34
Good morning.
Selections from the two previous Saturday's have bought no returns and a loss of 14 points which takes the blog overall to a figure of -28.28 points after six months.
This is not good so I decided to break things down a little to see where things were and how to turn things around with a little tweaking.

Firstly a 14 point patent produced zero returns so amounts for half of the overall loss.

Golf selections earlier in the year made a loss of 10.2 points.
25 points stakes with returns of 14.8 points.
However Webb Simpson who was backed at 160 on here and finished 2nd traded odds on in the final round but for the sake of aftertiming no trades were recorded here on him.   

The big dent in losses comes from single selections.
There were 30 of them to equal sixty points staked but the returns were just 32.60 points to produce a 27.40 point loss. Just seven returns there with one winner, although Right Step at 25/1 was a good 2nd but unfortunatley came up agains't a in form Pekan Star.

Best performing came in the shape of races where two or three selections were made.
Points staked were 160 and returns were 183.32 points equalling a 23.32 point profit.
Here there were 37 races with returns made in 20 of them with 5 races including the winner. 7 races produced a winning return and 8 races a losing return.

Overall then a loss.
259 points stakes with returns of 230.72 points = -28.28 points

From breaking things down though you can get a much clearer picture of positives and negatives and it's fairly clear where they are !
Hopefully the next six months will show an improvement here not just in results but also approach. It's a long road but it helps from time to time to just take a step back and see what's happening.
It doesn't look like there will be many single selections appearing here again or 14 point patents !
Here's to a better next six months.
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