I suggest to add condition reflecting expected length of the race (for UK/IRE horses). This will enable to use in-play strategies depending of expected duration of race.
One way this can be done is to introduce regular expression filter
As an example :
Bet on race which name contains one of following expressions:
1m
Do Not bet on race which name contains:
4f,5f,6f,7f
will ensure, that the strategy/rule will execute only for races 1m,1m1f,1m2f,1m3f
If enybody else would like to have it, hands up!
Length of race condition
I have created a simple program that converts race length into time, then lists half time and quarter time, so for example a 1 miler it could be 2min, 1min, 30sec (depending on conditions).
It took me a while to perfect the times as the state of the course, jumps, flat, AW and so-on had to be considered.
I then place my auto-bets accordingly if a horse is where I want it to be at half-time, or 3/4 time, with the race coming to a close.
Quite crude, but it works for me!
I get the times and ground conditions from AtTheRaces.
I know I am a bit soft in the head, but it is quite exciting monitoring a 52-second, 5-furlong sprint and knowing your pick is exactly where you expected it to be.
Woolfold
It took me a while to perfect the times as the state of the course, jumps, flat, AW and so-on had to be considered.
I then place my auto-bets accordingly if a horse is where I want it to be at half-time, or 3/4 time, with the race coming to a close.
Quite crude, but it works for me!
I get the times and ground conditions from AtTheRaces.
I know I am a bit soft in the head, but it is quite exciting monitoring a 52-second, 5-furlong sprint and knowing your pick is exactly where you expected it to be.
Woolfold
Yes, of course it can be done in excel. But I would love to have it as a part of built in automation. I am already running plenty of rules using automation and based on my experince Excel macros are significantly increasing CPU consumption when using VPS, so I would rather avoid this. Running two excel instances for overlaping races with refresh rate 200ms each is already on the edge of vps performace with 2 processors...
I would agree that this would be useful for automation as it would deliver the ability to run multiple strategies simultaneously based upon the distance itself and perhaps the time the race takes to run. Especially useful for in-play strategies.
In addition, class may also be useful, as we could easily avoid lower class races in automation without having to think about it or require us to filter each and every race each day. The reverse for selecting higher class races is also true obviously.
Handicap's and non-handicaps, plus the avoidance of apprentice and novice races would be useful for me specifically, but I can understand how this may be a little too niche.
I understand that this is obviously very horse racing centered and there may be other ways to take care of this requirement. If there are I'd love to know how to do this.
In addition, class may also be useful, as we could easily avoid lower class races in automation without having to think about it or require us to filter each and every race each day. The reverse for selecting higher class races is also true obviously.
Handicap's and non-handicaps, plus the avoidance of apprentice and novice races would be useful for me specifically, but I can understand how this may be a little too niche.
I understand that this is obviously very horse racing centered and there may be other ways to take care of this requirement. If there are I'd love to know how to do this.