RDSS Hangs - SA 2/28 - Race6

[Ted Craven]

It appears that RDSS 'hangs' when trying to assemble Race 6 at Santa Anita today Feb 28. It starts assembly but never finishes it and you can't move on to other actions - have to restart.

Something happens during automated paceline selection which is odd - not sure what, though there are some strange lines to choose from for this collection of Maiden Claimers.

The solution is -- restart RDSS, choose any other race, go to the Paceline Selection Strategies tab and un-check the 'Select Pacelines During Race Assembly' box (if checked). Then re-assemble Race 6 (right-click on that race on the Card Summary Screen).

RDSS will assemble the race but NOT select any pacelines - you can do that yourself. Then handicap the race. Then re-check that setting (if that's what you normally do).

I'll investigate this further to understand what caused the problem.

Good luck today!

Ted

(Manual line selection looks something like this.)

[cdax]

Very "glitchy" today. Same hanging problem on multiple cards, even after unchecking paceline box.

Other races appear like this.

Working around it for now. Last week everything was fine.

Chris

[cdax]

It appears Twinspires is conducting some site maintenance which isn't allowing the PL and PP numbers, for now. I will just reassemble later.

[cdax]

On some races within a card, you need to shift the entries and past performances. Like above.

The blank entry is the 1 horse, then 1 pps is actually 2 and so on. 7 has correct pps but is a duplicate to the 6 (because the 5 is actually the 6).

Gotta stay on your toes today and double check I have my correct contenders.

[cdax]

This is a bit of a challenge (gonna be worse when I start drinking).

The blank entry has the sire and dam of the 1 horse. The entry that shows the 1 horse has the correct name, jockey and trainer but has the sire and dam for the 2 horse.

Fun time trying to make sure my P5 and P4s are what I want.

Getting good practice today loading up screenshots tho.

Chris

[MJS6916]

I don't have the weight, sire, and dam info at FairGrounds today.

I'll restart RDSS and see if that does the trick.

Mike

[MJS6916]

Tried it again and got the same result (no weight, sire, & dam).

Everything else seems to be in order.

I don't have RDSS getting the Twinspires Numbers or scratch info for me,

and I set it so it doesn't auto-pick the pacelines when I tell it to assemble each race.

Not sure if that previous sentence helps any.


Mike

[cdax]

Just assembled Turfway. No issues, everything looks good. Will try to play that.

[Ted Craven]

Either the issue with accessing some data from TwinSpires resolved itself by the time I tested this (5:40pm PT) or the new version of RDSS which is soon to be in wider testing deals with it.

The above cited races seem to be displaying properly:







Tip in case this happens again:

1. UNCHECK Get TS Ratings on the Config screen, Save then restart RDSS.
2. Re-assemble the card/race. If still a problem (Entries mis-displayed) -
3. Re-download, re-convert the card in the Data Centre (UNCHECK the Don't Duplicate box to FORCE a re-download, re-convert).

I appreciate all reports of such incorrect displays or missing data. It will help me to make the new version as bullet-proof as possible.


Thanks!

Ted

[winning]

Hi Ted,

I need your help, I'm in the NHC tournament in Las Vegas, and

My GP race #10 for 3/16/2025 is frozen, and I couldn't open the file. I did what you said above, but still could not open file, same thing for SA last race for
3/15/2025.

Thank-you,

Brian Eng