Proform Release Notes for V1.91 build.10

New Features Summary

1. Corrected PRB calculations.
2. Added user Rating 1 Rank to today’s runners quick view.
3. Added WAX, PRB and PRB^2 to system builder.
4. fPRB^2 added to race card and results screen. Works with form and quick filters
5. PRB^2 added to horse form screen. Works with form and quick filters.
6. PRB and PRB^2 added to prior form screen. Works with form and quick filters.
7. PRB and PRB^2 added to in running screen. Works with form and quick filters.
8. PRB and PRB^2 added to today’s runners screen. Works with form and quick filters.
9. Added PRB to pattern matcher and trainer trends screens and re-sized them all to fit better.
10. Added four research buttons to horse 2 tab for research past Cheltenham Festival Runners and winners. NOTE: They do not save with a system at present so are just for research.
11. Colour coded WAX, PRB and PRB^2 on all screens as follows: -

WAX
GREEN: Better than +2
RED: Worse than -2
AMBER otherwise

PRB
GREEN: Better than 55%
RED: Worse than 45%
AMBER otherwise

PRB^2
GREEN: Better than 40%
RED: Worse than 30%
AMBER otherwise

Field Explanations

PRB - This is the average PRB of all starts, calculated for each race, so that the performance each race is weighted the same.

This new metric is more powerful than traditional strike rates. This is because strike rate uses wins which is very black and white i.e. a win counts as 1 but a loser regardless of finishing position, even if second counts as 0.

PRB^2 – This is the average of the percentage of rivals beaten squared.

PRB^2 is in effect PRB weighted so that each successive placing going down the field from the winner is less important. PRB^2 predicts future winners for any racing statistic better than PRB.

WAX – Wins above Expectations which is calculated like this, actual winners minus expected winners.

Proform Release Notes for V1.91 build.7

Video of new Features

New Features Summary

After the new features is a glossary of the fields added and more details on the other features.

1. Power Ratings downloads change to a different server internally, the old one will be switched off in a week or so.
2. UR1 odds on welcome screen is now decimal.
3. UR1 odds on racecard and results now decimal.
4. Added PRB to horse form tab, PRB is percentage of rivals beaten.
5. Added fPRB to racecard and results screen, this is mean of all percentage rivals beaten in the races it as run and can be filtered by global and simple filters.
6. Added powr to horse form tab which is Power Ratings Rank (UR1).
7. Auto update welcome screen tick box added to non-runner removal tool.
8. Fixed non-runner removal issue for horse names with quotes in.
9. Moved applying filter to top bar so does not get stuck in middle of screen. Now in yellow along the top when filter is applied in form book.
10. Added quick hide button to notifications window – This is to quickly turn it off and saves a couple of clicks.
11. New index for power ratings auto update lookup so it's quicker and looks back 35 days now.
12. Added 50% lower, 70% lower, 50% higher, 12 ticks higher, filtered runs, filtered wins, sp rank vs fin pos metric and total of same to racecard and results screens.
13. Added 50% lower SR to pattern matcher
14. Added 50% lower SR to trainer trends
15. Colour coded all trading data
16. UR4 added to welcome screen
17. Tissue Decimal added to welcome screen
18. Fixed draw IV on in running tab
19. Added jockey and trainer, powr rank, qual, actual going, odds decimal, headgear to in running tab
20. Added in running highs and lows  and sp rank vs fin pos to horse tab
21. Fixed BSP bug on horse tab
22. Added foaldate to racecards and results

Glossary of New Fields

New fields on horse form tab

We have added the in running lows and highs and percentages from the in running tab to the form tab too for continuity.

PRB - This is the percentage of rivals beaten (PRB) that this horse has beat in each run. Colour Coded, see chart.

PosVsSPRank – This set 1 if the finishing position was better than the horse’s SP (Industry) rank and -1 if it wasn’t.  This can be used as an indicator of a horse running better than the odds expect.  However PRB is introduced also and this is likely a better indicator of good form.

SP_Rank – This is the rank of the industry SP the horse went off at.

PowR – This is the rank of the power Rating (UR1)

New fields on in running tab

We added a few fields to the in running tab, which are jockey and trainer, powr rank, qual, actual going, odds decimal and headgear.

New fields on race cards and results screen

Filters

All these fields work with form book filtering, for instance if you filter a race to only show AW form then all the values for the fields below reflect this.

This makes the trading figures truly powerful because you can filter to conditions more like today using the quick filters and the more advanced filters.

The quick filters look like this above the race card

The advance filters are behind this button on the right

Field Explanations

fPRB – This is the mean of the percentage of rivals beaten (PRB) that this horse has beaten in all runs currently filtered. Colour Coded, see chart.

50% Low SR – This is the strike rate of the amount of times the horse has traded 50% or lower in running than it’s Betfair SP (BSP). Great for spotting B2L’s, Dobb’s and Trobb’s. Colour Coded, see chart.

70% Low SR - This is the strike rate of the amount of times the horse has traded 70% or lower in running than it’s Betfair SP (BSP). Great for spotting B2L’s, Dobb’s and Trobb’s. Colour Coded, see chart.

FRuns – This is the number of runs the horse has had using the current filters.  This field allows you to see how many runs the traded percentages are using.

FWins - This is the number of wins the horse has had using the current filters. This field allows you to see how many wins the traded percentages are using.

50% High SR - This is the strike rate of the amount of times the horse has traded 50% or higher in running when it won a race or races than it’s Betfair SP (BSP).  This is something that is useful to know when trading a horse as a Lay 2 back (L2B). Colour Coded, see chart.

12 Tick Higher SR - This is the strike rate of the amount of times the horse has moved up 12 ticks or higher in running when it won a race or races than it’s Betfair SP (BSP).  This is something that is useful to know when trading a horse as a Lay 2 back (L2B). Colour Coded, see chart.

PvSTotL3 – This is the total from last 3 runs of the PosVsSPRank from the horse form tab.

PvSTot - This is the total of all of the PosVsSPRank’s from the horse form tab.

Foaled Date – Added to race card and results screen.

Colour Coding Rules

You can see four different colours on the image.

Red is >0% and <=25%

Amber is >25% and <=50%

Light Green is >50% and <=75%

Dark green and bold text is >75%

Pattern Matcher and Trainer Trends New Fields

We have added trading percentages to the both the pattern matcher and trainer trends, which make both tools very powerful allowing you to determine the best trading angles for horses and trainers.

50%SR - This is the strike rate of the amount of times the horse has traded 50% or lower in running than it’s Betfair SP (BSP) for this pattern or trend.  Colour Coded, see chart.

Welcome Screen New Fields

Added UR4 and Tissue Odds in decimal and power ratings odds (UR1 Odds) are also now decimal.

Power Ratings Downloads

We have moved to a new server for downloads, so we can secure the main site after Google changed some rules a few months back.

For you it is seamless this update takes care of it but you NEED to do the update because once we secure the site (soon) the old version will not download power ratings automatically.

Auto Non-Runner Removal Tool

Auto update welcome screen tick box added to non-runner removal tool

This is generally for those linking welcome screen selections to BF Bot Manager so that non runners trigger new bets and selections on the welcome screen are updated and then the BF Bot auto updates them.

When ticked in conjunction with auto non-runner removal it will update the welcome screen.

NOTE: if you have a lot of systems every time a non-runner is found you will get a lag or wait cursor while the welcome screen updates.

Quick Hide on Notifications Screen

This was for me really as I always click not on top and notifications off when I open Proform and got sick of three clicks

The quick filters are the win and place filters and race type filters above the race card in data view and look like this

It is very easy to set the quick filters and then forget you have them set. You can then be working away looking at a race only to find, 5 minutes down the line that you forgot that you had set up a quick filter, wasted time.

To save this wasted time we have added a status update on the main filter button if a quick filter is set.

The main filter button is on the top right  under the race navigation buttons, when it is inactive it looks like this

Now when you have a quick filter set it will be displayed like this

During your race research they will be occasion where you may wish to confine the information displayed in Proform to win/place form or a specific category of racing.

In this video we show you how you can restrict the form on display using the quick filters in the Proform Professional Software.  

The race classification filters allow you to restrict races to very specific race types.

Race Classifications
You can filter the races according to Classifications. You can select one, two or many Classifications.

Use the Match Any tickbox above the Classification list to decide whether to Match Any of the classifications you select or untick the Match Any tickbox to only search races that match all the Classification you choose.

Remember  

• Most races will match more than one classification i.e. a Maiden Handicap Hurdle is three classifications, Maiden, Handicap and Hurdle.

Unticking just one classification does not mean that this classification will be ignored, if another classification matches a race that includes the unticked classification that race will still be analysed, here is an example to explain this in more detail

• If you unticked Handicaps but still have ticked Amateur races and Match Any selection then any Amateur Handicap races will still be matched because a match on Amateur was found and the Match Any rule kicks in.

If all Classifications are ticked, then all races will pass the Classifications filter.

You can quickly select or de-select all Classifications by right clicking on the list of Classifications and making your choice from the resulting pop-up menu.

and NOT Classifications

You can also ignore race classifications by selection one or more of them from the NOT Classifications list.

i.e.  To ignore Group races just tick Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 and no group races will be in your results.

The race course and going filters tab allows you to restrict your searches to specific courses and goings.

Courses

Use the course list to restrict your research to one or many courses.

You can quickly select just Left Hand or Right Hand courses by using the two buttons under the course list. You can quickly select just courses with specific characteristics by using the five buttons under the course characteristics heading. You can also quickly untick or tick all courses by right clicking inside the list.

Actual Goings

Use the actual goings list to restrict your search to races run on the actual goings you choose. he actual going is based on the race times recorded at each course on the day of racing.

On many occasions it differs from the official going and is a more accurate reflection of what the going was at any given meeting. Mixing the ticks and unticks in the actual and official going lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. You can quickly untick or tick all actual goings by right clicking inside the list.

The actual going can not be used in a saved system that you wish to find qualifiers for. This is because the actual going is not known until after the races are run.

Official Goings

Use the official goings list to restrict your search to races run on the official goings you choose. 

The official going is what was officially reported. Mixing the ticks and unticks in the actual and official going lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. You can quickly untick or tick all official goings by right clicking inside the list. The official going can not be used in a saved system that you wish to find qualifiers for.

This is because the official going is not known until after the races are run.