Workouts

[racer100]

I am posting this hoping to open a limited recommendation list for Ted as far as the workouts screen. In reading some material by William Scott and Doc Sartin I see that they both recommend to translate the workout times into a feet per second speed. I think this would be helpful to have as a new column added next to the existing "Rank" column. The most important workouts are at 6 and 8 furlongs. The rest are pretty much meaningless per these 2 authors. a workout at 3F will have a highly abnormal speed and anything higher than 8F will have a lower speed. Pretty meaningless when you are trying to compare this with 5F, 6F, 7F. Even after having the feet per second speeds, it will not allow us to compare against a contender with previous lines since the actual contender with lines does not have the feet per second calculated. A way to compare would be to "translate" the workouts into call times. Take for example a 6F workout. Its 1st call would be at 1/4 mile and 2nd call would be at 1/2 mile. Knowing the speed as feet per second at the finish line (for the workout), a linear proportion can be established where times can be calculated for the 1st and 2nd workout calls. These figures in turn can be used to compare this "only workouts" contender (without any lines) to the rest of the field. The paceline established by one of the contenders with lines can be matched up against workout lines as well. This is just an idea and I would appreciate any feedback on this since it will be helpful to all of us to have this feature implemented instead of simply just passing the race in case of no lines on more than 2 contenders. Thanks for your input.