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Old 04-21-2017, 11:22 AM   #1
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Illustrated Glossary - more eyeballs, please.

Here's a little background on the Illustrated Glossary.


I began using RDSS about a year ago. I have been a horseplayer since 1974 and have tried several (numerous?) approaches to handicapping. While the Sartin Methodology and pace handicapping have always interested me, that's not how I played. I was a speed and class handicapper (with a heavy dose of T/J stats) and managed to grind out a small profit most years.


Last spring, I finally grew tired of doing it with pencil and paper and contacted Ted. He is a good and decent person, someone you want to know and be friends with, and I decided to give RDSS a try.


My first few weeks with the program were astonishing. It seemed like every horse that the program gave me WON! My trial $100 bankroll was quickly over $500. I sent Ted emails like, “What have you programmed into this thing. It's an ATM!” To which our friend replied, “Calm down. Things will even out.” In other words, it won't last. And he was right.


So, when my bankroll was no longer defying gravity and I was losing races at about the same rate I had been winning them, I realized that I needed to learn what made the Sartin Methodology and RDSS work. It's not a blackbox and I wanted to replicate the winning.


Enter Glossary.


For someone new to the Methodology and to RDSS, absorbing the published documentation, the audio, the video, is overwhelming! Think - drinking from a fire hose. So, I created a small, illustrated glossary in an attempt to cope with this flood of information. It began as something just for me. But the Glossary grew, I shared it with Ted and thinking it might help new users, he posted it on P&C. The target audience was always the new users. The experienced Sartin people already knew what they needed to know and in some cases, had been acquiring that knowledge and using it for decades.


That was last August. Now, the Glossary is 50 pages and growing. (As I type this, I know there's at least 5 more pages of content that I need to add.) Unfortunately, I have read some portions of it so many times that I am blind to the mistakes. So, if you should read it and find an error (or two or three), please bring it to my attention (or Ted's) so that I can correct it. In other words, the Glossary needs to be read and critiqued by new eyeballs.


By the way, I've created almost no substantive content. It has all come from posts and documentation on P&C, but I may have misunderstood something, misinterpreted something, or misquoted something. I may even have copied something that I knew was wrong but didn't catch it. (There's a point when your brain stops working.) Regardless, I'll own the mistakes but please let me know about them.


In closing, if you should read it and learn something you didn't know before, regardless of how small, that would be good. I wish I had known Doc Sartin and had the opportunity to shake his hand. He was a special person.
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Old 04-21-2017, 12:41 PM   #2
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Thanks Mick

I think your work is outstanding
I am very thankful

I get so many private messages. People ask me to explain readouts
or terminology , It is very hard for me to understand what they actually are asking ? With your work, something can be used as a reference,

A great example is like what happened recently with the LPR readout
With text and illustrations and coming from a common starting point,
your glossary, We all can get on the same page and win

THANK YOU

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Old 04-21-2017, 02:42 PM   #3
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Great post Mick and thanks for your effort.
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Old 04-21-2017, 03:02 PM   #4
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Hi Mick
I haven't actually written to you but I would like(and need!) to read THE GLOSSARY you put together. Where is it? Please
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Old 04-21-2017, 04:35 PM   #5
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papajohn,

Ted has placed it here:

http://rdss2.com/V2.1-docs-pdf

That should take you directly to it. He has links on several threads too. The Table of Contents is "live" so to speak. Just click on a topic and you'll be taken to it. No need for scrolling down, although you will have to scroll back up. (I need to fix that.)
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Old 04-21-2017, 04:53 PM   #6
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Very nice work Mick. Thanks for doing it.
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Old 04-21-2017, 06:33 PM   #7
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Thanks so much Mick!
This will really help me go forward!
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Old 04-24-2017, 09:04 PM   #8
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Great job and Very helpful, Thanks Mick!
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Old 04-24-2017, 09:33 PM   #9
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Thank you all for the kind words. And we're not through yet. I have a list of things to add and I'll get to them soon.
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Old 04-25-2017, 07:33 AM   #10
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Mick, I’ve been enjoying reading your notes and I came across something:

Page 16, Velocity (fps): SC - Second call or Early Pace, the average of F1 and F2.

EP/SC should be a standalone velocity (fps): second call distance/ second call time.

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