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Old 12-03-2007, 09:37 AM   #10
mufasa
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Originally Posted by lbj View Post
from the horse mouth:
"most of the clients are adjustment happy...."
MU doesn't require any adjustements. No track to track, no variants, no slop, no mud, no trainers, no jocks, no class. No RULES
lbj
Adjustment-correction-tweaking-modification-change is always done even with the MU. In MU it is called Voodoo. When you decide to use one pace line over the other especially if the latter is less in TS/TE/SR the effect is a change for had you picked the better rated pace line the horse might have come out on top. When you decided to leave out certain entries as non contenders that is also a change since had they been left in again the outcome could have been different. As far as I am concerned there is some adjustment in each race that we handicap but many times it is intuitive (pace line selections that loom up at you) or other times it is called other things such as Voodoo.

Too much adjustment is no good but there has to be just that right mixture of correction or tweaking to what is shown in the past performances at certain times to come up with an advantage or better yet the right choice. Just what and how much change is needed remains elusive at least to me for now.

Just one opinion--Thanks,

Robert
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