Brad Free article about CompuTrak

[thoroughbred]

Brad Free has written a gracious and very complimentary column about our CompuTrak program.

It's in this Saturday's edition of the Daily Racing Form, and also on its web site http://www.drf.com/news/content/4.html

His article includes reporting the good results he obtained at the recent Hollywood meet using the program.

[Suff]

Brad Free has written a gracious and very complimentary column about our CompuTrak program.

It's in this Saturday's edition of the Daily Racing Form, and also on its web site http://www.drf.com/news/content/4.html

His article includes reporting the good results he obtained at the recent Hollywood meet using the program.

A very nice piece indeed. Congratulations.


From late April through the middle of June, in a survey over 22 racing days, CompuTrak produced results that would be the envy of any flesh-and-blood handicapper. Using Daily Racing Form past performances, the program selected 54 winners from 168 races (32 percent) at an average win payoff of $7.30. A $2 win bet on each selection ($336 total) produced total return of $394.40, a $2.34 return on investment for each $2 bet.

[JimG]

Nice article Ruben! What surprised me is the article said there was 1300 users of the program. Even if that is not active users and just people who have bought your program, that is pretty good. 1300 sounded like a lot to me. My guess with most good commerical programs is that there is no more than 100 or so dedicated users. After all, we wouldn't want Dave S. and some others to get too rich.;)

Jim

[kingfin66]

I think your guess regarding users of commercial programs is way, way low. When I went to Pizzolla's seminar in October 2003, there was 160 people there. Of those 160, probably 100 (probably more) had laptops running TMM. Then there were people like me who didn't have laptop but use TMM at home. Keep in mind, this was people at the seminar. He has sold copies since then and the people that would go all the way to Vegas for a seminar probably represent a small fraction of the population of users. 1300 seems like a reasonable number.

[JimG]

I could be wrong Kingfin. Certainly would not be the first time. I agree with you that seminar attendees would only represent a portion of dedicated users of a program. I think the latest HTR had about 50 at their seminar and you quoted strong seminar numbers for Pizzola. Since I have been messing with software in the late 90's I have rarely seen anyone using the output of a software program at the track or otb except for past performance stuff. I have never seen anyone else at a track or OTB using output from HSH, HTR, or Equisim...all of which I consider to be very good programs.

I think the number of users is relatively small, and that of course is a good thing for the players. Of course, most good commercial software allows the user to attack races from many angles.

Jim

[joeyspicks]

Nice Ruben!......good article on what I think is a under appreciated piece of software. I paid the $30 for a demo and was impressed.

I am constantly amazed at the good software available today.....there really is a wide range of programs that can help any type of player. You just have to experiment and know yourself. :ThmbUp:

[ratpack]

Could not get the article online because I am not a paying customer.

So could someone be more specific on which ratings the win% were based on, if that was mentioned in the piece.

Thanks

[thoroughbred]

Could not get the article online because I am not a paying customer.

So could someone be more specific on which ratings the win% were based on, if that was mentioned in the piece.

Thanks

Ratpack:

CompuTrak calculates an odds line for each race, where, of course, the lower the CompuTrak odds, the higher the win probability.

I believe Brad Free chose the horse with the lowest CompuTrak odds of the odds line.