[Jake]

Originally Posted by AwesomeAgain

In all fairness, let’s not get carried away with that nonsense.

RDSS users are not wandering around in the dark waiting for Profit Line and Prime Power to rescue them from ignorance. RDSS still has NewPace, BL/BL, V/DC, Total Energy, TPR, deceleration, %Median, EPR, LPR, FW, FX, paceline structure, velocity interpretation, and the entire Sartin framework under the hood.

Profit Line and Brisnet Prime Power are useful. Nobody with a working brain is denying that. But let’s not confuse added intelligence with life support.

PL and BPP are outside confirmation tools. They are a bonus layer. They can sharpen the picture, expose contenders, and challenge what the internal readouts are saying. Great. That still does not mean RDSS collapses without them.

The foundation is still pace, velocity, energy, pressure, distribution, deceleration, and matchup interpretation. That is the engine. That is the methodology. That is the work.

So no, RDSS users would not “lack valuable insights” without Brisnet. They would lack two useful outside opinions. Big difference. Profit line and Prime Power add value. They do not carry the building.

Agreed. Strong contender method (top 3, top 5) for both PL and PBB, but absolutely unnecessary for handicapping in RDSS. The database percentages across the Excel worksheet make that very clear. Awesome's guidance on the foundation work is pristine, the tools are already there, assuming you know how to sequence them correctly in your handicapping. Personally, I believe that New Pace as a method is equally unnecessary and misguided, but that's strictly my own private viewpoint. Whatever helps you get there.