Hi Everyone
I think one area where this incredibly powerful and versatile software could be improved is the statement options. At the moment we have no way of recording extra information in this which we might find useful to analyse.
I'm sure I'm not alone in saving my statement every day, so that over time I build up a vast data set of bets I have made. By analysing this data I have been able to improve my triggers eg some of them work badly in hurdle horse races, or some of them work better in races under 1 mile long. Yet there is so much extra information that's in the api feed from betfair which is lost when the statement is recorded. I think this is a real missed opportunity.
As an example, the variable
runner_number returns the number of horses in the race, so if I could record that, I could analyse which triggers work best in small fields, and which work better when more horses are in the race.
Another would be
silk_age which gives the age of the horse. If I could see that in the statement in a column next to the record of each bet, I could (after I'd built up a suitable amount of data over a few months) sort my results by that column and see which ages of horse performed best.
These are just two simple examples to give a small taste of what could be recorded and used. Each user would want different variables saving, which is why I have mocked up how this might work in action. The attached images shows how this could be implemented. A new statement section could be added to the logger page of the settings, with a 'log user variables in statement' check box where each user can customise what extra information (if any) is recorded in the statement. In this mock up I have added runner_number & silk_age as examples as I talked about them before, but each user would add whatever variables they wished.
These columns would then be added to the statement, as I have shown in the 2nd mocked up image. The column
Var1 displays the number of runners in the race, and
Var2 shows each horses age.
I have thought this feature would be a good idea for a long time now, in fact I posted it in the suggestions 3 years ago:
https://community.welldonesoft.com/marketfeeder-suggestions/ability-to-add-our-own-variables-into-each-days-statement/msg53425/?topicseen#msg53425I know that this feature would really expand our ability to refine our triggers, and hopefully if you guys agree that it's a useful addition to the software, and that it is implementable, then it might get added to the todo list.
Thanks for reading.