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Originally Posted by MJC922
With any computer-based approach it's only going to be as good as the inputs. If you feed AI DRF data with Beyer figures I don't know how much it can actually learn. There's a lot of relevance to who takes money too, and how does that get presented to AI. Coding for horse racing is incredibly labor intensive; just to get the data in position to be analyzed is a big effort. Then once you have said 'system' you need today's data to be crunched because it needs to look at grouped data not just raw data on a card, everything changes relevance within the group. Computers do an awfully good job if they're properly spoon fed really good inputs, but where are those inputs coming from? Beyer figures? CJ's pace figures? Raw times? My stuff? Nobody has my stuff in CSV except for me. So then they have to build something like I built or steveb's stuff and feed that 'goodness' to the AI. Otherwise it gets nothing and nowhere with just raw PPs IMO.
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This is prolly the best comment in the thread. Some of you are telling on yourselves about your own working knowledge about how “AI” works in horse racing. Might want to let an AI loose on all the posts in the history of this board and I would be happy to have my machines bet against it.
Bottom line is you will spend the majority of your time data cleaning more than any other task. If you think the data that’s freely available (or even exorbitantly priced available) and that is going to be good enough for an “AI” to bet, you are sorely misinformed.
