Re: Computer-Robotic Wagering (988 Views)
Posted by:
Tavasco (IP Logged)
Date: December 11, 2015 02:28PM
JimP,
Generally I like your point. Incentives. Desire. Moves the world including the one in question. Yet I have to take a couple of minor points. You refer to Tracks as if they were some sentient entity. Then again to the anonymous they.
I imagine track operations more like any factory, blue or white collar. Tainted somewhat by the more than occasional criticism of management, in the industry. My picture is more akin to the three stooges. i.e.
Getting the tote to stop taking wagers before the gate opens could be a haphazard event with the nerd in charge more interested in his fantasy about Maggie May and her running a tray of drinks to someone than increasing the pool size. But just to be sure, paying his/her penny pinching manager to economically reward nerd person for getting it right has merit.
Folks will say his/her salary is for getting it right. Real World - pay for results. Nerd is paid for stopping bets on time docked for failure to do so. Manager paid similarly. All the way up and down the ladder pay for explicit defined behaviors.
A conspiracy to increase pool sizes by delaying the tote, is a reach for me. Making bets into a pool after the race has ended is a worthy endeavor for a criminal and a better goal than armed robbery. Betting on horses after the race has started but before the finish line has obvious advantages. Yet the competence required restricts the candidates to the usual suspects. Lacking law and order it will take a fluke, like a go pro, to discover.
Bottom line I'm suspecting one or more organized gang(s) of entrepreneurial young women in short tight skirts with obvious cleavage distracting the tote control clerk.