About PPFA
Professional Punter's Form Analysis (PPFA) provides an in depth analysis tool for Bet Selector users.
PPFA performs many automatic adjustments to the data. Consideration is made for blackbook, par times, sectional times, trial form, wet tracks, jockeys, trainers, past form, distance, barrier and rail positions, track capability for each runner and much much more. After many years of manually making these adjustments, a fully automated program has now been completed that will reduce many hours of analysis down to minutes with uncanny accuracy.
Over the last 20 years the PPFA Team have come to understand the strength of form analysis and the need for this to be done in a methodical and non emotional manner. In order to maximise the strengths of Bet Selector, the PPFA Team has systematically approached Form Analysis in this manner with remarkable improvement being achieved in the overall success.
Since its inception in 2002, we have continually developed PPFA to ensure consistency in the PPFA Ratings.
The inclusion of the automated procedures into PPFA for "Par Times" and Field Strengths is a culmination of extensive analysis performed over the last 20 years.
Steven Angelides
When I first became interested in the horse racing game I was merely 17 years old, not even allowed to bet but that did not stop me. I pursued my interest and was very fortunate to have a “mentor”, Anthony H who had an abundance of knowledge of the industry and was happy to show me the ropes, it was here that I was introduced to doing form analysis and analyzing races looking for the best chances based on a series of factors rather than following the markets and betting the favourite simply because it was the favourite
One of the first things I learned and it has remained with me all these years, when you think that a horse can win a race, you need to back that up with “logical reasons”
We used to get together on Friday morning to do the form; this was in the days when most racing was on Saturday with meetings on Wednesdays and Thursday with the occasional Sunday. It’s a far cry from the 7 days a week we can bet nowadays plus international racing and in the very early days, no computers, all the work was done using a card system with the data being recorded in that format.
The one thing that Anthony always demanded was” don’t tell me a horse can win” “tell me why it can win” and the same applied to any horse that I felt couldn’t win. It was a simple rule that took years to understand and apply. If I made a statement either way regarding a horse’s chance in my opinion, I had to support it with reasons either way, sounds easy, many times it is, sometimes it is not that easy to find logical reasons to include or exclude a horse when considering chances in a race.
Now almost 50 years later, still using the same rule albeit with the latest technology and software analysis tools, this task has been made far easier.
It is this type of knowledge and hopefully wisdom that I have acquired over all those years that I feel I should share and pass on to a new generation of punters that are coming through the ranks and even to some of the punters that like me have been around for quite some time, we are always learning everyday and keeping an open mind and making one’s self available to change is what keeps us alive in this most difficult of professions to master.
I hope that this will provide an insight and knowledge that will assist you in the future.
Nick Vlachou
I have been designing and coding databases since 1980.
Between 1975 and 1980 I spent time both as a part-time and full-time horse trainer which gave me a sound background in all facets of horse racing.
The majority of my working life, I have owned my own business or been in partnerships. In 1991, whilst exhibiting my company at a computer fair in Perth, I was approached by Steve Angelides. Steve was looking to buy a computer which he wanted to use to analyse horse form. Steve asked if I could help him setup some software to help him process the data. This is how PPFA was seeded and in 2002, we decided to develop a full blown horse racing software package.
My previous experience as a horse trainer was a big influence in the design of various parts of the PPFA program. In particular, the Race Times and Sectional Times have been significant contributors to the final ratings.
Over the years, PPFA has continued to evolve and today, we believe that PPFA is the best horse racing analysis software for Australian, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore thoroughbred racing.
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