Re: BEYER NUMBERS FOR SATURDAY (574 Views)
Posted by:
bobphilo (IP Logged)
Date: April 16, 2007 10:20AM
Beyer had 2 ways to go with this.
1) He could give everyone a poor figure based on the slow final time and the pace handicappers can take this into account and/or adjust for the slow early pace.
2) He can assign figures based on the horses finish relative to each other in relation to their prior figure histories, which would include the affect of the pace, and probably give a better "as is" figure for the race (ala Timeform), for those that will not consider pace in later evaluating the race. Which would yield the more "accurate" figure will depend on how it is later used.
Beyer went with the 1st method. I wonder how Jerry will do it?
Bob