New Member, No Experience

[cmckeever]

Ted told me to introduce myself. My name is Cedric McKeever, Mac for short. I’m an 83-year-old male living just outside Philadelphia, PA about 9 miles from Parx. I’m happily married for 53 years, how time flies when you are having fun. We liked to go to Atlantic City casinos, mostly Showboat, but that closes and because my wife in mobility challenged, we do not do much traveling.
I formally looked at Gulfstream and followed the experts (no bets) to see if they would make any money, but that did not work out. Somehow I came across this program. So, I really do not have any experience in handicapping horses.
I signed up in mid-December and fumbled around trying to get my feet wet. I am not the brightest bulb in the room, so I had trouble trying to learn all the abbreviations and finally stumbled on to the 4 Factor system. So here I am.
I am trying to find out how to post an attachment.



After setting up the configuration described by Ted in his thread on the Four Factor Method (http://paceandcap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13111), I picked out all horses with ranks of 5 or better in either ProfitLine or BRIS Prime *#8, #5, #3)



I then picked out the horses with Three Factors (#4, #7, #2):



Horse #1 had one factor, and the other houses (#9 and #6) had no factors.

The next step is ranking the horses. According to Ted’s instructions we start with the horses with the most factors, in this case, #8, #5, #3 all which have four factors. Since the #8 has two adjacent “1’s” I assume that it has the highest rank. Second would be the #5 horse since it has one “1” and the # 3 horse does not have any “1’s.” So, I figured the ranking would be horse #8, horse #5 and horse #3.
I moved on to the horses with Three Factors. This is where I got confused. Admittedly, horse # 4 only had three rankings, but it has 2 adjacent “1’s” and they are in the ProfitLine (PL) and BRIS Prime (BPP) columns and I thought it would be a better pick since it was the programs first pick (highlighted in red). But I stuck with the instructions and ranked the #4 after the #8, #5 and #3.
So, now I have #8, #5, #3, and #4. I really had no clue on how to pick the last two, #7 and #2. In the list with all the horses, #7 is ranked higher, and it has a blue arrow (whatever that means). Looking at “New Pace,” #7 is at the top of the list and is listed as the nuber2 late runner, #8(my leading pick) being first. In segments #7 finishes first in TS + F3. The #2 has a couple of first places; however, both had bad last races. If I had to choose, I would pick the #7.