Something to keep in mind when wondering about figures that look bogus on the surface, the data we get is far from perfect. If you trust everything you get and just go by the numbers you are going to make a lot of preposterous figures.
Here are a few things just from this week that have caused me figure making issues:
- Fat fingered times in chart
- Beams being tripped by something other than the lead horse
- Track condition labels being reported erroneously
- A race literally run at the wrong distance
- Times put into the chart that don't match video that have no explanation
- Hand times...many, many races hand timed
- A new timing system put in place at one track
- Trakus timing at some track which just isn't very accurate even when working
- Varying run ups, even at the same distance on the same day at the same track
- etc, etc, etc.
