Comments on: Grand National 2010 Weights Competition

By: Me6

Me6 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:26:33 +0000

it is a bit of a ridiculous competition, based on weights instead of ratings, because if you get the weight compression wrong you’re likely to get most of it wrong, and if you get the weight compression correct then you’re likely to get most of it correct. It is either feast or famine.

On the other hand, if the competition is based on ratings instead, then each horse is treated as a separate entity, and you are more likely to get a wider spread of scores.

By: Gammers

Gammers — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:50:09 +0000

Agree with your tally Daniel, and 4 of us still level after applying the tie-breaker.

Honours very much even!

By: Daniel Edwards

Daniel Edwards — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:29:40 +0000

Well then, it is hard, isn’t it!! Part of it is judging what the compression will be, what horses will get bumped for the Aintree factor, how he will treat the Irish horses.

That’s 2 years now we’ve done this, and nobody has got more than 1 right yet!!

By: Me6

Me6 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:24:38 +0000

I disagree about it being hard. It is just a question of judging the weight compression – 6 lbs in this case.

If we had gone by the ratings that Smith has used, instead of the weight allocated, I would have got 3 correct (AS, DA and WB) for example, and I’m fairly sure most people would have got 2 or 3, or maybe 4.

By: Daniel Edwards

Daniel Edwards — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:26:59 +0000

Miinnehoma – 10 pts
Gammers – 10 pts
Ewok – 10 pts
TC – 10 pts
Me6 – 10 pts
Teddyt – 10 pts
Desert Orchid – 10 pts
Showlad – 10 pts

Daniel Edwards – 5 pts
Neil S – 5 pts
Sootydoggolf – 5 pts
Brody 5 p ts

By my reckoning…

Anybody disagree?

Just goes to show how hard it is!!

By: Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:24:06 +0000

Arbor Supreme 10-03
Dream Alliance 10-12
Irish Raptor 10-00
Mon Mome 11-09
Whinstone Boy 10-04

Tiebreaker: Number of horses entered at Tuesday 16th February = 111

By: Brody

Brody — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:02:06 +0000

Albertas Run 164 11-10
Mon Mome 162 11-08
Dream Alliance 151 10-11
Arbor Supreme 142 10-02
Whinstone Boy 141 10-01
Irish Raptor 135 9-09

Tiebreaker: 110

By: Showlad

Showlad — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:11:18 +0000

Here goes…
ARBOR SUPREME 10-6
DREAM ALLIANCE 10-13
IRISH RAPTOR 10-03
MON MOME 11-10
WHINSTONE BOY 10-04
Tiebreaker 110

By: Ewok

Ewok — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:21:39 +0000

Arbor Supreme 10,6
Dream Alliance 10,12
Irish Raptor 9,12
Mon Mome 11,9
Whinstone Boy 10,4

Tiebreaker – 107

By: kj

kj — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:06:56 +0000

Arbor Supreme – 10′05
Dream Alliance – 10′13
Irish Raptor – 9’13
Mon Mome – 11′9
Whinstone Boy – 10′06

Tiebreaker:- 109