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Originally Posted by Whosonfirst
Class, would you mind enlightening us about how you make figures if the raw data is wrong? Of course without giving away the key to the mint. Or maybe you're timing from your own videotapes as well.
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I wasn't talking about making speed figure in my case. I was talking about watching races, looking at the quality of a field, and comparing horses' trips and performances within races. When I do that, I couldn't care less what the time was. I'm practically praying the race came up faster or slower than my assessment of the field so when the horses come back everyone else is going the other way.
A better example might be the way Thorograph makes figures primarily off the horses instead of the times. It's not that they don't look at the times, but they will adjust figures to the horses when they don't make sense based on the time.
Now I'm not saying these are better ways of doing it. I'm just saying there are ways of trying to get around the inaccuracies of timed races that work quite well and take you away from the consensus sometimes.
