Speculator Newbie

[Rxlawyer]

I am new to Spec150. I need help understanding all of the abbreviations. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Gary

[alydar_ David]

Check out this post:

http://bindfold.com/forums/showthread.php?t=891

[Rxlawyer]

Dear Alydar Dave:

Thank you. I checked out the thread and it helps to some degree. However, there are many abbreviations that either are not in Spec150 or that are in Spec 150 and not listed. I really appreciate your help and the post from Shoeless. It did help, but I can still use some additional help.

Gary

[RichieP]

Originally Posted by Rxlawyer

I am new to Spec150. I need help understanding all of the abbreviations. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Gary

Hi Gary,

ok let's take it screen by screen

here is screen 1 - Energy generator

from left to right:
SR- Speed Rating form the paceline selected

Total - Total Energy for the paceline selected( higher is best)

HE - Hidden Energy - Compunded rating- Fractions 2 and 3

FX - Compounded rating - Fractions 1 and 3

% Med - Median energy of the horse's paceline - similar to the old % early u are probably familiar with

E/Ep - Early energy potential - Early pace also factoring in total energy

L/EP - Late energy potential - Late pace also factoring in total energy

TPP - Total pace potential - What it says

Bal - Balance - The adding of E/ep and L/ep ranks together - This is VERY powerful tool Gary. When reducing a field to 5 contenders any horse showing Balance of 9 or higher is a HUGE negative.

ESP - Computer generated ESP based on energy distribution NOT positioning or visual

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[RichieP]

this is the e/l or early/late Difference graph. shows how a horse distributes its energy

stick to the right shows he runs early
stick on or very close to the center line shows an even balanced runner
stick to the left shows a runner who runs late

degrees of ear and late are shown on the bottom of screen
e-even
me- medium early
ve - very early
ex-e - extreme early
ml - medium late
vl - very late
ex-l - extreme late

SUPER KEY SCREEN

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[RichieP]

Incremental match up graph

shows velocities of the horses at 1c- then 2c - then 3rd fraction and total pace combined

for those who like to see moves "within the race" this screen showing turn time movers in fraction 2 is good


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[RichieP]

Match up screen showing beaten lenghts

this screen turns the velocity numbers into beaten lenghts for a much easier and more understandable "look" at the matchup.

On THIS screen the 2c showing is velocity positioning at the 2c and NOT turn time like the previous screen ok?

Others MUCH better versed in this software such as Tompkins, Del mar Scott, Ted C, Kiltman, NoDub all really LOVE this screen.

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[RichieP]

Long shot detector screen

Gary to be honest I have NEVER used this screen and really don't know what the heck it is or does ok?

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[RichieP]

The Perceptor screen

ok this is a beautiful screen man. Up on top u see the Per-1 readouts. What this is basically is the corrolaries

EPR - Early Pace rating
LPR - Late Pace rating
CPR - Composite Pace rating ( similar to sustained pace)
TT - turn time or 2nd fraction
HID - Hidden Energy - 2nd and 3rd fractions
FW - a combining of early and late weighted slightly favoring early
FX - fractions 1 and 3 combined ,weighted

but instead of rankings they are shown by % with 100 being the best for the given corrolary. So here you can see how MUCH of an advantage a horse has or the opposite how WEAK a horse is in any given corrolary.

when you add up all the %'s you get the "Tot-1" number and ranking over to the right side


Perceptor-2
on the bottom half shows these same % differences but applies them to the individual fractions of the race as well as 2nd call.

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[RichieP]

Velocity/ Deceleration screen

Upper half of screen we see:

ml - morning line
SR - speed rating
ESP - computer generated ESP
Total - Total energy and rank
F1 - fraction 1 velocity and rank
F2 - fraction 2 velocity and rank
F3 - fraction 3 velocity and rank
SC - second call velocity and rank
TRK - track the paceline used is from
dist - distance of paceline used
co - track condition of paceline used

Lower half of screen we see:
TS - True Speed and rank
DECL - Deceleration figure and rank
FIN- finish position of the horse in paceline used
fld - field size from paceline used
ABL - beaten lenghts behind at finish of paceline used ( expressed as - negative) WIN lines show the margin of victory expressed as positive number
RC - race class of paceline used

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