Was the Match-up a windows program? And what time frame did it come out as compared to WHPro2 and AoddsGold98? Thanks.

Jim

Jim, yes, it was a Windows app. We wrote it to coincide with Jim's first MatchUp book (around '97). We didn't sell a lot of them, and stopped selling them after AODDS98 came out (around Oct '98).

Randy

If somebody has the Match-up windows program, could they upload a screen shot of it? I would like to see what it looked like? Thanks.

Jim

I have the Help file, it has screen shots. I can upload that you're interested (I have the program too but the help has everything in it).

Randy

That would be nice Randy. I was interested in what some of the main screens looked like. The help file would be neat, especially if it explained what some of the items on the screen were. Thanks in advance for your time.

Jim

PS...Randy, you mentioned WHPro. I have found that the odds line portion of the program did a good job of getting contenders. I never had great luck with using the database for contender selection. My guess was that the database smaller samples sometimes over emphasized certain factors to the detriment of others. I definitely had better luck using the program without the database.

No problem. It was the precursor to AODDS98. Many of the features in it became part of AODDS98.

Unfortunately it looks like the size is larger than the max allowed. PM me your email address and I will email it to you.

I also have the AODDS98 and WorkHorse Manuals.

Randy

RE WHPro, a lot of times, especially in the beginning of meets, no database worked better. The real key to the database was to have enough matches and especially, you needed to fix the results many times as there were problems and the full result didn't get ingested (there was an entire section in the manual about fixing results).

Randy

Randy,

You have been pm'd. I chuckle when I think of all the time I spent fixing results files to put into Work Horse. It was really a pain when there was scratches as the bris file would have the same race in there twice. Ironically enough, after I stopped maintaining a database, they seem to have fixed their results files.

Jim

Yeah, it was a huge pain. I even had to go to extra lengths to allow it to only use the last occurrence of the race in the results. But then they would put the wrong date internally if they fixed it after midnight.

Ahhhh the good ole days.

Randy

Randy,

Thanks for sending but I had a little problem opening after extracting and sent you a follow-up email.

Jim