Capper Al
01-03-2016, 10:01 AM
If you ever ran a website you quickly realize that content is king. I had a family website once and only wanted updates from the family. The family wanted the site but few photos or comments appeared. After a while, I closed out the site. Maybe many of you can better relate to today's movies. A lot of today's movies sizzle with action scenes made with the new technologies, but many of these fail from a lack a storyline. Similarly, many homegrown and commercial software products incorporate the latest technologies but lack the substance and understanding of many of the basic handicapping principles that the previous generation of handicappers had about the game.
The new technologies seemed to have improved the public hit rate by five percent or more than the previous generation. But not necessarily for everyone. Those that have an understanding of the game can use the new technology. Those that don't have an understanding of the game can't use the new technology. It still falls on the capper to find their way.
The only advice here is that when one reads something like 'Data Warehouse' or 'Database' in the software ad, ask something like what's in that data warehouse and how can I use it? It isn't click and win. This goes for many homegrown apps also. So you have built a database. What data are you storing? BRIS or DRF only? So what. Your database has to have your own created data in addition to the commercial. One isn't going to beat the public by using the public's data only. Or out pick BRIS and DRF using their data only.
The new technologies seemed to have improved the public hit rate by five percent or more than the previous generation. But not necessarily for everyone. Those that have an understanding of the game can use the new technology. Those that don't have an understanding of the game can't use the new technology. It still falls on the capper to find their way.
The only advice here is that when one reads something like 'Data Warehouse' or 'Database' in the software ad, ask something like what's in that data warehouse and how can I use it? It isn't click and win. This goes for many homegrown apps also. So you have built a database. What data are you storing? BRIS or DRF only? So what. Your database has to have your own created data in addition to the commercial. One isn't going to beat the public by using the public's data only. Or out pick BRIS and DRF using their data only.