This week we welcome regular guest Vince Accardi from Daily Sectionals back on to the show. This is the first of a two-part series in which Vince is going to be answering some great questions submitted by 'Drewfus'.

Punting Insights You'll Find

What the daily summary is and who can benefit from that information.

What explains the discrepancies between Timeform and Daily Sectionals.

Why acceleration and deceleration are so reliant on race pace.

What the study of sectional time date indicates about horses that love or loathe wet tracks.

Using benchmark standards to assess performance.

Today's Guest:

Vince Accardi

Vince's Parting Advice:

" You have to be very careful what you take away when there is a discussion about benchmark time."

 

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Episode 41 : Answering Listener Questions with Vince Accardi

Welcome to Betting 360, your number one source for horse racing and sports betting insights. Coming around the bend is your host David Duffield, with another expert view to give you the winning edge.

David Duffield: Good day Vince and welcome back to the show.

Vince Accardi: Fantastic. I’m always happy to be on the show, Dave.

David: This one’s a little bit different. Most of our listeners will have heard of Drewfus. He was a very prolific and thorough contributor to the blog and had a bunch of questions for Rick that we covered in an earlier episode. He’s done the same for you. So if you don’t mind, we’re going to run through those today.

Vince: Yeah. Happy to run through it. Let’s hope that we can answer all the questions.

David: All right. Question number 1. On your website, the sample IVR report contains sectional times for the winner and leader for each race of the meeting in question. Explicit velocities, so speeds are not listed nor is anything I would call a rating. It is understood that velocity and rating data is probably stated elsewhere in a report. However, for the sake of clarity and completeness, could you please give the official definition of the copyright term ‘incremental velocity rating’ and describe how the term refers to the data in a daily sectionals report.

Vince: Well, I think the first thing is what I believe Drewfus is talking about is talking about the daily summary sheet. This is what by and large the majority of people use. That’s the raw sectionals that are incorporated to be used in conjunction with people that from a serious form student point of view like to use it in comparison with their video analysis work.

It also then extends itself to that second line which is that they can use that as a par table process which every individual has their own strategies in terms of how they like to collect data to create pars and also the last part of it is to give them a completeness in terms of what the official time was versus what the digitally internal time was or as I state the IVR time. That’s what the daily summary is. There is nothing to do with velocity ratings or anything like that. It is a service that goes to the industry. People like the RVL like to use it through their stewards in terms of, as you are aware, we’ve provided audit service for their final times. If they’re out by more than a certain point, they get adjusted. Also, it assists them in getting a gauge on various speed analysis that happens from a raw sectional point of view. I know that many people build their own tables. That’s what they do with it.

Further to that, it assists them in terms of whether they’re going to upgrade or downgrade tracks as well. Their internal point of view on what they have. Not only that, the last 600 metres that are presented in those daily summaries are also posted on all the RVL non-metropolitan tracks. That’s what that is. There’s nothing to do with ratings or anything like that.

David: Yep. What you mentioned explicit velocities (speeds are not listed) nor is anything I would call a rating …

Vince: That’s correct.