Black Magic Handicapping Software

[PICSIX]

Originally Posted by PICSIX

Fulcrum definition from "Handicapping Magic"; The fulcrum pace is the fastest second call time of all the contestants in the race taken from their last race, provided that the race is competitive and not atypically fast for the horse.

Part of the approach is to eliminate horses that have run poorly against similar fulcrum pace as today's race.

BTW, Handicapping Magic software is less expensive than Black Magic. I know Black Magic does more but I don't know how much more.

The software title is "The Handicapping Magician"

[Speed Figure]

Originally Posted by PICSIX

Fulcrum definition from "Handicapping Magic"; The fulcrum pace is the fastest second call time of all the contestants in the race taken from their last race, provided that the race is competitive and not atypically fast for the horse.

Part of the approach is to eliminate horses that have run poorly against similar fulcrum pace as today's race.

BTW, Handicapping Magic software is less expensive than Black Magic. I know Black Magic does more but I don't know how much more.

It does much more trust me!

[cato]

I am a big fan of Pizzolla's but TMM is not a program I would recommend except for a couple of suggestions noted below.

TMM was basically developed as a tandem to the book Handicapping Magic and intentionally uses simple numbers that are relatively easily to calculate per the book (although who would want to do them by hand after you have learned how to and how they work? - thus the program). No real track to track adjustments and there are only rough approximations for surface and distance changes at the same track.

Having said that you get some really contrarian numbers and if you have some desire to see how the concepts of Handicapping Magic play out then get the program. Plus it's simple to use etc.

Black Magic (and hopefully soon, ValueCapper) is on a different plane of existence and uses velocity numbers, pace numbers, etc., etc. There is a learning curve but I've seen and used other programs with a much steeper curve. Having said that it is, thankfully, not a black box and requires handicapping and judgment, which means 5 BLAM players may wind up betting on 5 different horses in the same race! Hopefully I have the winner...

Best, Frank

[cato]

So, Mr, Speed - do you have TMM or Black Magic (BLAM) -I thought you had BLAM and if I'm wrong - and for all of those other folks out there who have and like TMM - that's great! It does do some interesting stuff...I used it several years and learned a lot but I was never happy with the numbers and thought it was a step down from his earlier program (name forgoteen at this point); although part of what Michael taught (same thing as Dick Schmidt) is that the numbers just need to be "good enough" - they all have variations and built in error, etc.

[Speed Figure]

Originally Posted by cato

So, Mr, Speed - do you have TMM or Black Magic (BLAM) -I thought you had BLAM and if I'm wrong - and for all of those other folks out there who have and like TMM - that's great! It does do some interesting stuff...I used it several years and learned a lot but I was never happy with the numbers and thought it was a step down from his earlier program (name forgoteen at this point); although part of what Michael taught (same thing as Dick Schmidt) is that the numbers just need to be "good enough" - they all have variations and built in error, etc.

Never used BM until now and I really like it!

[bruin95]

Originally Posted by Speed Figure

Thanks a lot Bill! I'm finding out some really interesting things! Was checking the fulcrum pace horse in dirt sprints today. There were 47 sprints and the fulcrum ran ITM in 17 of them, but 19 races did not have a fulcrum horse so in 17 of 28 races the fulcrum ran ITM. Betting to show would have been $34 bet with a return of $60.5 for a 1.78 ROI. I have to say I'm really loving this software!

Wouldn't you have bet $56, not $34, if there were 28 races?

[Speed Figure]

Originally Posted by bruin95

Wouldn't you have bet $56, not $34, if there were 28 races?

Your right! just a little profit now.

[acorn54]

ive used blam and was impressed primarily with the longshots it was able to detect. ive watched mike pizzolla's tapes and he is a real entertaining guy to see operate. to sum up his method, it was to me the longshots from blam hooked up with other horses in exotics that put him way over the top in roi.
hope you get a real kick out of the program speed figure

[barn32]

Wasn't Michael Pizzola a protege of Jim the Hat Bradshaw?

[Tom]

No, Sartin.
But Bradshaw did teach him the idea of a fulcrum and the PBS numbers.

[Xman2]

Hey Speed. Play the fulcrum under in the exacta and you will have plenty of money for other bets. Finishes second a lot. Cha Ching!!

Xman2

[JJMartin]

Anybody planning on buying the new ValueCapper when it becomes available?

[bruin95]

Originally Posted by JJMartin

Anybody planning on buying the new ValueCapper when it becomes available?

Wouldn't hold my breath on it ever coming out. Have you clicked on the graphic for the software? It says copyright 2015. It's been "coming soon" for nearly two years.

[JJMartin]

Originally Posted by bruin95

Wouldn't hold my breath on it ever coming out. Have you clicked on the graphic for the software? It says copyright 2015. It's been "coming soon" for nearly two years.

lol I know. I saw a video with Mike P from a few months ago and he said it would be this spring I think.

[theotherside]

What I like about mike and his organization is when I spent 12 or 13 hundred dollars for the master handicapper program and after a few years he no longer supported it or put out the files for it. It was really great.