Thanks Jimmy I’ll try it

Did you click Settings and re-type the old factors you want to use in the 5 fields? Then click on AI Agents and then click on abPACE. The factors should be the new ones that you typed in.

It didn't take for Dave to touch base after I posted about losing during the Sar meet. One has to love that about Dave, he wants all of us to winners. Dave sacrificed his evening to spend two hours with me to review any issues I may be having with DET. No other vendor would offer that type of customer service!!! and my original post stated that I was critical of myself for not working hard enough. I did not say anything negative about DET. I love the direction we are headed and Dave's desire to improve all of our lives. Thanks, Dave, for reaching out to me!! You offer nothing but top notch service and support. Thank you

With the Saratoga meet ending it seemed appropriate to review my results with DET involved. Most of my bets resulted from output directly from DET based on my use. In short, I struggled in P4's and P5's. I used a conservative contender selection method which failed to meet my expectations. I was left with a few too many contenders and a few too many misses. Meet loses totaled about $2800. I realize that most of you can handle this type of loss without batting an eyelash but for me confidence plays a more important role. I found myself floundering on too many occasions. I also discovered that I understood much less about DET than I realized. Lessons learned.
Despite the results, I am convinced I can turn them around. A review of the result charts revealed that I danced close to some nice tickets that somehow slipped past me. Yet I missed those opportunities. DET has undergone multiple upgrades, and I didn't keep up with them well enough. I found myself leaning on methods that most of you have moved on from upgrades ago. Despite relying on horse racing income as my sole source of funds for years now, I'm lacking confidence. I'm excited about Abby 2 and look forward to progress.
Keep up the amazing work you have been doing!!![/i]

Honestly, I haven't looked at the abRx/abRY (found in BR2 button) that closely. I checked several races from yesterday, and you're definitely on to something here. This is a very good BALO determinator.
I do use Abby Pace. From the other post-- watch the video "Detailed Abby Instruction Wednesday 08-20 Meeting". It's very good.
Here's the Tiebreakers I've set up.
280 - FTBL3
214 - Earnings/Start
36 - Jockey Rating
1,630 - Trainer/Track
12 - Condition
A couple of observations. I like to review the Abby pace rankings like in the video. Pay attention to contenders that are Rank 1 in both LP and SR, even in "E and EP" designated races unless their ES points are 0 or 1. These contenders may not rank high early because of their running style, but they stay close enough to the pace. For example a contender with an ES 5 and there's 6, 7 or 8's in the race. The contender does not rank that high early, but the ES 5 keeps him in contention.
A tie breaker I like to look for is a Trainer/Track Rank of say 5 or 6 and a Jockey Rating of 1 or 2. You have a good contender with not the best trainer, but one of the best jockeys. Could work well in Exacta place tickets since it may signal that the trainer is going for purse money.

I've been playing live and then replaying dozens of races in past several weeks since the original AI Assistant and its subsequent upgrades have been released. I don't model per se, but I keep detailed notes of each race that I play live, with the components that I use in my handicapping, so I can replay the races as new enhancements are released and monitor how they might improve my play. In all cases I use these buttons AFTER I've done my preliminary handicapping. Some thumbnail observations:

abRx/abRY (found in BR2 button)- I mark the three lowest ML odds horses, and look to see if these buttons push them down. When any of these three horses get pushed down I BALO them. This is now my preliminary BALO determinator. It's absolutely killer.

I also look at the best three horses on these buttons. Usually I already have them as contenders but occasionally they point me to a mid-priced winner that I had missed to that point.

Abby Pace- the BH sort is very good at finding the low odds winners. Dave and Brian have said this gets 91% winners and I certainly see that. For me, it's also aiding in eliminating some of my mid and long odds Place contenders for exactas. The bottom two or three horses are easily tossed in an exacta Place ticket. So this button is helping me tighten my exacta tickets.

pcrH button (also found in BR2)- haven't figured out yet how to leverage this column, but I know it's an important one. For me it often mirrors the abRx/abRy button. But occasionally it does point me to a winner or Place horse that I would've missed otherwise. This button is a work in progress for me.

Anybody else have any observations on these components?

Been away for a while, but I'm back handicapping again and some talk today at PA about Ranchwest reminded me off the good stuff here.
I made a system baserd on BRIS PP only, from an idea I got years ago from a tape from the last Handicapping Expo.

I used the top 3 PP horses. I had, through research, established a minimum odds for each rank of PP and if the 1 rank PP horse was higher than my munimum, it was the bet. If not, I go to #2, and lastly, #3.

No bets beyond #3, unless, rarely, #3 and #4 were exactly tied.

If #1 is 6-5 and my min is 9-5, no play. Keeps me off all low prices, but with so little time to "handicap" a race. I can play a lot more races. I wait to decide until the last minute to bet.

I'll dig up the old chart tonight and post the minimumsd for each rank. It is not a really large sample, all the races were actually bet by me at the time. But a database could do a large sample easily.

Tom

Guessing there's a lot of reasons. Here in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana we have casinos (with shows). Reasonably priced weekdays, not so much on the weekends. There's also on-line sports gambling. Was Vegas fueled by the Baby Boomers and now that's slowly going away? Seems a lot of my friends 20-30 year old kids have it tough financially with high housing costs and taxes. Not much if any extra income for gambling let alone Vegas. As we talked about before, not many young people learned card games, craps, roulette, horse racing, etc growing up. They have no idea how to play these casino games and don't seem to be interested in learning. Maybe like horse racing, there's no younger bettors to replace the older ones.