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Originally Posted by Denny
PA,
Not sure how you can depend on it for anything.
I've personally spoken to more than one ML maker.
They said they spend about five minutes per race making a line. Sometimes less!
How can that be taking everything into account from the thousands of bits of information on each horse???
One guy said he purposely puts odds far lower on longshots so as to not "embarrass" the connections.
It's a disservice to the betting public imo.
Sometimes it's even done by someone filling in for somebody who took the day off. Who knows who it is on those days. The identity of the line maker isn't even given to us.
A well written computer program could do a far better job of evaluation and would be superior imo and be far more reliable.
Just another example of how little tracks care about us. Kind of expected.
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I'm sure everything you write happens now and again at various tracks here and there...despite that, I still personally find it useful.
As for computer lines, I think Harness racing has dabbled in those, and of course, there was a backlash...nobody is happy with anything.
So you make do.
