Re: chicken or egg (492 Views)
Posted by:
sammy10k (IP Logged)
Date: June 08, 2005 12:45AM
My initial question was very simple cause I thought the answer was simple. When I was growing up my dad taught me to read the racing form and he said the way to convert lengths back to time behind was to use 1/5th of second per length - I assumed that was close to how it was done so I didn't get more specific with my question.
Later I emailed Equibase asking them my question of how to convert beaten lengths to actual finish times. I figured they would say it's either 1/5th or 1/6th of a second per length. The answer I actually got was that there was no simple way to do the conversion. After hearing that, I knew the solution couldn't be using 1/5th or 1/6th.
At this point, what I assume they are doing is taking the finish times of non-winners, determining the rate of speed each ran at, using the rate to figure out how far they would have run when the winner crossed the wire, and then convert that distance into lengths.
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