Using the old MPH and entering TM variants - Pace and Cap

Jeebs · 04-16-2013, 11:10 AM

I had emailed Ken Massa the other day about manually entering track variants into the old MPH software, and he stated that when he and Tom Brohamer were doing their own variants, 1 point = .15 fps, so if a track was 3 points fast, they would enter -0.45, or if the track was 3 points slow, they would enter +0.45 for the adjustment.

I see that Trackmaster has a variant on their PPs, but am not sure how to interpret it. For example, if a variant for the race is 20 (20 points slow), does it mean that its 20 fifths (lengths) slow, 20 tenths slow (which would be 10 fifths slow), or is there no way to make heads or tails because their formulas are proprietary?

04-16-2013, 11:10 AM	#1
Jeebs Grade 1 Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 909	Using the old MPH and entering TM variants I had emailed Ken Massa the other day about manually entering track variants into the old MPH software, and he stated that when he and Tom Brohamer were doing their own variants, 1 point = .15 fps, so if a track was 3 points fast, they would enter -0.45, or if the track was 3 points slow, they would enter +0.45 for the adjustment. I see that Trackmaster has a variant on their PPs, but am not sure how to interpret it. For example, if a variant for the race is 20 (20 points slow), does it mean that its 20 fifths (lengths) slow, 20 tenths slow (which would be 10 fifths slow), or is there no way to make heads or tails because their formulas are proprietary?