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I absolutely agree with that Alan. An Cappall asks a really important question though. To be certain we'd need the % of runners above and below the benchmark to see the true correlation, particularly given we get more occurrences of compressed handicaps these days.

The truest stat is as a representation of runners in the bands you used. I suspect it wouldn't make a significant difference but without the full picture it's impossible to be sure.

I'll go away and do the x-country out of curiosity, but mainly because it's easier to do than the great work and insight coming from simmo and yourself.

<blockquote data-quote="Maruco" data-source="post: 2520095" data-attributes="member: 65063">I absolutely agree with that Alan. An Cappall asks a really important question though. To be certain we&#039;d need the % of runners above and below the benchmark to see the true correlation, particularly given we get more occurrences of compressed handicaps these days.The truest stat is as a representation of runners in the bands you used. I suspect it wouldn&#039;t make a significant difference but without the full picture it&#039;s impossible to be sure.I&#039;ll go away and do the x-country out of curiosity, but mainly because it&#039;s easier to do than the great work and insight coming from simmo and yourself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maruco, post: 2520095, member: 65063"] I absolutely agree with that Alan. An Cappall asks a really important question though. To be certain we'd need the % of runners above and below the benchmark to see the true correlation, particularly given we get more occurrences of compressed handicaps these days. The truest stat is as a representation of runners in the bands you used. I suspect it wouldn't make a significant difference but without the full picture it's impossible to be sure. I'll go away and do the x-country out of curiosity, but mainly because it's easier to do than the great work and insight coming from simmo and yourself. :D [/QUOTE]

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