Bill V.
There is no need to apologize. You are an excellent teacher of older Sartin programs, keeping the spirit of "Doc" on this board. Your step by step elimination examples are great teaching "guidelines" as some of us had to learn "new Sartin" programs like Entropy and Energy out of the box without much printed or guided instructions during a different era. Maybe, it was by design by Sartin, as Sartin mentioned in some old manuscripts that there was no "correct" way to using the methodology.
I used to keep a stack of losing races or "
problem races" Some of the recurring issues were efforts to compare pacelines from Northern Cal tracks (Pleasanton fair races or Santa Rosa races) with Southern Cal tracks even though Phase 1 users already had charts of adjustments made out to account for the differences. Some other issues were efforts to compare "quirky" distances like the downhill turf races or the one turn mile dirt races at Hollywood Park.
Entropy and Energy are great programs but if one is able to account for the huge differences in daily variants or "track to track adjustments":they become powerful programs!!!
Back to the race at hand and California Chrome's pursuit of the Triple Crown in the 2014 Belmont Stakes. Win or lose, the process was in question....not your final contenders for the top two positions....
Many thanks again for working races using some of the older Sartin programs!!
