Re: Stuck in the middle with you... (751 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: April 23, 2014 02:56PM
Quick story re video-- back in 2004, when Ragozin was a serious competitor, we used to check the figures they posted for big races so that we could point out ground loss errors, and we found several. For the Derby that year we noticed big differences starting after the 3rd finisher (Imperialism), and soon realized it wasn't ground, they had an error of about two lengths starting right there. We checked the charts, we watched the tape to verify the charts, the charts were correct. Ragozin had it wrong, significantly, in the biggest race of the year.
So as you might imagine, I posted about this, in detail and at length. And Jake came back on their site, saying there was no way they had it wrong, because they used video frame counting. I came back telling people to watch the damn race themselves. After a couple of days of maintaining that video doesn't lie they went dark.
But they didn't fix the error. They undoubtedly figured out they had a problem-- but rather than admit the error, they kept the original figures. Which their PAYING customers continued to use.