Price And Probability -- A Revolutionary Approach To Value Handicapping by Ray Gordon

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A Speed Figure is NOT A Power Rating!!

In The Winning Horseplayer, Andrew Bewyer compared his speed-figure method to the Daily Racing Form's speed-rating/track-variant combination. He said, more or less, that his figures were:

"the way, the truth, and the light.....I viewed the Form's speed-rating/track-variant the way Picasso might have viewed paint-by-numbers kits."

Beyer's arrogance was justified, but to expect any informational advantage to survive, intact, for three decades, is a bit much. The Beyer figures lost most of their standalone profitability in 1992, when they became part and parcel of the DRF past-performances. While they are still considered useful, the days of being able to simply make one's own speed-figures, and using them, and them alone, to win, are long gone. Enter PAP, the logical evolution to speed-figures, be they Beyer's, Ragozin's, Brown's, or others.

How Fast Will Your Horse Run Today?

Beyer himself will tell you that his speed-figures can only tell you how fast a horse ran in the past, not how fast it will run today. This is because speed-figures ae an incomplete performance rating. Just as the speed-figure adjusts a raw time rating to account for surface, a performance rating adjusts the speed-figure to account for everything else. These figures are then combined, using Ray's proprietary method, into a singular power rating, a singular measure of a horse's ability, As any PAP sheet will show, the PAP rating is a prerace, projected speed-figure that does exactly what Beyer said could not be done with his figures, i.e., predict how a horse will run today. The six years Ray spent (1986-1992) making his own speed-figures with the Beyer-Kovitz method provide an excellent foundation for his attackign the task of projecting a figure before, not after, a horse has run its race.

Value: The PAP Conversion Equation

the question is simple:

What is the odds value of one Beyer-Kovitz point?

Ray's answer to this question, which has evolved over the past decade, and which Ray now consideres mature, is what allows him to take a set of prerace speed-figure projections (PAP ratings), and convert them into a highly accurate, and bettable, morning line for each horse.

The result is either:

A comprehensive vqalue handicapping approach for the serious player (Price And Probability, the "PAP book");

or

A turnkey solution for the recreational player (the PAP sheets). Even those who choose to use the sheets can still do a great deal of brainwork, since the "value zone" for PAP is large, offering multiple strategic options.

Price And Probability covers all areas of PAP, includes a complete (odds) conversion equation chart, and a way for you to make your own PAP-style ratings. Our annual subscription offers year-round coverage of racing's biggest days, for just a few dollars per sheet. All who purchase Price & Probability receive a free one-year annual subscription.

While Ray has no doubt that some future handicapping author will eventually surpass his method for profitability, this doesn't appear likely to occur anytime soon.

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