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Originally Posted by mufasa
I have just one more question for now and that has to do with the BLBL readouts. Next to the odds readout column I am seeing this VDC column. I am assuming that this is part of the Val4 readout that is incorporated in the RDSS program. Since I have never used Val4, and if I am correct, can someone explain what kind of output is most meaningful.
I have notice one problem with RDSS and that is that once the program has been minimized that you can not just left click on the mouse to reopen it but must instead right click the mouse and then select restore. This is a minor item and I am sorry if it has already been addressed.
Thanks,
M
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Robert,
V/DC is from Validator. It stands for
Velocity relative to
De
celeration and is a (highly) compound factor which essentially measures how much or little the horse was slowing down relative to how fast it was travelling during the segments of the race aggregated, massaged further by relative weighting of the Primary Factors. The rank that is shown is either the Primary Line Score (PLS) rank or the actual V/DC rank, whichever is better, which often leads to ties, meaning for example, despite being lower ranked on PLS if the underlying V/DC assessment ranked higher, that higher rank will be displayed in addition to another PLS rank which may be identical. If you find corrolary evidence from other observations to support this V/DC improvement, consider that that line may be better than its PLS rank indicates. ('Admin' has coined this V/DC rank improvement over PLS - 'Binder improvers' and I believe he has cashed some good tickets on these
)
I have received several recent reports on V/DC ranks of winners at different tracks and distances over many dozens of races. The top 2 and ties are winning over 70% of the time and finishing in the money approaching 85% (always depending on your contender/paceline selection).
Re the maximize of RDSS fromthe Desktop, this is a known bug (#2): please refer to the Bug List PDF document I sent you, or check here:
www.ArtofPace.com/rdss/bugs/RDSS_Bug_List.pdf
Ted