Vigorish
11-29-2013, 03:14 AM
Greetings,
I have been tinkering around with various past performances, trying to find one that fits my preferences. About a month ago I tried TimeformUS. I really liked it and consider it one of the most intuitive, easy to use products. Unfortunately, I detected a couple of shortcomings relating to availability of comprehensive, in-depth statistics for breeding, trainer history, post position bias, etc.
One product that I recently found, and fell in love with, was Equibase Equigraphix (although it definitely has a few limitations and annoying quirks). The Equigraphix program makes it easy to conceptualize how the different horse's match up by means of various graphs, charts, and other visual aides. What's really awesome is that you can pry into the data that underlies the visual representations. They offer three different forms of past performances ON TOP of the visual aides.
One major shortcoming is price. I don't think the product is overpriced on a per/card basis given all of the bells and whistles. You pay $3 per card. However, this product lacks discounted package plans or an unlimited daily option. The most irritating shortcoming, in my opinion, is that the past performances black out all of the dates! The only way to get around this (if you want to avoid printing out the past performances) is to make an additional purchase of video replays, which I obtain for free from TwinSpires and my rebate shop.
In conclusion, I am wondering if anybody knows of alternative products with similar features. I looked on Brisnet and couldn't find anything. Somebody mentioned an alternative a few weeks ago, but I forgot the name of the product.
I have been tinkering around with various past performances, trying to find one that fits my preferences. About a month ago I tried TimeformUS. I really liked it and consider it one of the most intuitive, easy to use products. Unfortunately, I detected a couple of shortcomings relating to availability of comprehensive, in-depth statistics for breeding, trainer history, post position bias, etc.
One product that I recently found, and fell in love with, was Equibase Equigraphix (although it definitely has a few limitations and annoying quirks). The Equigraphix program makes it easy to conceptualize how the different horse's match up by means of various graphs, charts, and other visual aides. What's really awesome is that you can pry into the data that underlies the visual representations. They offer three different forms of past performances ON TOP of the visual aides.
One major shortcoming is price. I don't think the product is overpriced on a per/card basis given all of the bells and whistles. You pay $3 per card. However, this product lacks discounted package plans or an unlimited daily option. The most irritating shortcoming, in my opinion, is that the past performances black out all of the dates! The only way to get around this (if you want to avoid printing out the past performances) is to make an additional purchase of video replays, which I obtain for free from TwinSpires and my rebate shop.
In conclusion, I am wondering if anybody knows of alternative products with similar features. I looked on Brisnet and couldn't find anything. Somebody mentioned an alternative a few weeks ago, but I forgot the name of the product.