https://www.community.horsestreet.com/categories/69/handicapping-coders/feed.rss Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:35:22 Z Handicapping Coders - HorseStreet en https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/1237/is-bris-a-better-metric-than-adjusting-pacelines Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:41:10 Z Tim Romero 1237@/discussions Hi All, I am expanding my handicapping knowledge and just finished the Tom Brohamer book "Modern Pace Handicapping". In the book there is a lot of work done on establishing a $10K PAR which establishes the average call times of a race around the $10K claiming level and this is done across tracks... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/1221/csv-file Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:50:15 Z Chuck 1221@/discussions To whomever reads this and only looking for help and a solution to my problem. No, will suffice or not willing to help or cant if you can not is fine. Nor do I have the money to pay for the help but I have offered. I have a Brisnet DRF File that I converted to a csv file so I can import into... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/975/dave Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:20:00 Z Chuck 975@/discussions If I could jog your memory, You had posted back not sure how long ago, a small copy that you have of a book on The Science of Handicapping, whereby you showed a picture of the cover, it is an old copy. Scientiic handicapping something of that nature. I remember you saying there are not many copies... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/969/learning-code-and-having-some-issues-and-perhaps-someone Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:05:34 Z Chuck 969@/discussions could give me a little advice or answer a question. I am running a google sheet presently which uses An Apps Script for coding and working on having a calculation done in my spreadsheet. I have asked AI to help and it is good at times but can be extremely frustrating. Short end is. The code I am... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/547/i-know Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:16:37 Z Chuck 547@/discussions That you are probably tired of coding etc. And I have been messing around with AI -Copilot because been trying to insert a pdf file (Brisnet Ultimate past performance file) into my spreadsheet. Google Sheets and Excel have basically become interchangable. So.. the problem I am having is with the... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/424/ranch-is-doing-okay Sun, 02 Oct 2022 15:33:50 Z Dave Schwartz 424@/discussions Hey guys. RanchWest says he's doing all right. His quote was, "Tired but ok." https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/422/bris-fyi Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:40:17 Z RanchWest 422@/discussions If a horse has run in a non-wagering event, the race will not count as a start, but a running line will be presented. I always assumed that if the lifetime starts was zero, then the horse had no running lines. But that is not the case. There is also no speed rating. Very difficult to figure out... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/418/race-shape-lesson-7 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:50:02 Z Dave Schwartz 418@/discussions I know some people will say, "That's too complicated," but the truth is you already subscribe to this on some level. If you didn't you'd believe that a 4f dash for 2-year old maidens could be handicapped exactly the same way as the Kentucky Derby. ___________ Now that you get that you're already... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/417/concepts-pov-part-3 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:42:49 Z Dave Schwartz 417@/discussions I've got an interesting race for you here. We begin with a double-low-odds race. BTW, in HSH I refer to horses who project to be 1.21 to 1 or lower as "121 horses." About 70% of all races have at least one such horse. Only 9-11% have two 121s. Imagine that you are looking at such a race. The... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/413/winning-is-about-concepts-and-pov Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:17:19 Z Dave Schwartz 413@/discussions The purpose of this thread is to raise the awareness of the handicapper above thinking of all races as a process of: I handicap. I bet. This is NOT how a winning player functions. All races are the same. All races are unique. Neither of those statements are true. A 100% true story from my money... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/414/concepts-pov-part-2 Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:26:12 Z Dave Schwartz 414@/discussions TDN01 starts with another single-horse 1st tier. As with BTP01, the horse looks almost as strong. However, the running styles in this race scream "questionable pace!" If the running styles are questionable, I simply cannot use pace to determine the winner. I resort to the PSR number and get 3... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/363/001-core-programming-why-bother-to-improve-your-coding Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:10:59 Z Dave Schwartz 363@/discussions (From the book, Clean Code, by Uncle Bob Martin.) Uncle Bob has provided a tremendous improvement in my coding life. Truth be told, I am not a very good programmer. On a scale of 1 to 10, where "1" is a guy who's just written his first, "Hello World," and "10" is Bill Gates (when he was younger)... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/359/who-are-the-spreadsheet-wizards Mon, 16 May 2022 22:49:13 Z Dave Schwartz 359@/discussions Which of you guys are wizards with spreadsheets? (Would not be me.) I know that many of you have created some really colorful & beautiful spreadsheets, and the display of data is quite magnificent. Please share what you are good at and can help others with. What are you good at? Look ups Bulk... https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/357/changed-allowing-us-to-add-threads Sun, 15 May 2022 14:28:07 Z Rich Val 357@/discussions Thank you for the invite. And a special thanks for changing your mind about allowing us to add threads. I hate when forums don't let you do that. https://www.community.horsestreet.com/discussion/356/open-conversation-what-thread-topic-would-you-like-to-open Sat, 14 May 2022 23:28:57 Z Dave Schwartz 356@/discussions Whatever you'd like to talk about, please start the conversation here. As soon as it gets started, I'll move it.