the selection algorithm

I started building the algorithm used in these models during the COVID lockdowns of 2020 to keep my sanity. 

While I had no immediate interest in horse racing, I am a keen poker player and have dabbled in various sports betting and associated systems over the years. Combined with my very strong maths and data experience through university and my 30-year professional career, I kept myself busy building an algorithm to pick winners.

The journey has see-sawed to a point now where we have built the algorithm on over 150,000 races from 2016 to now and tested it in a live environment for the past two-plus years.

While my own returns have been modest over the journey as I have experimented with various wagering strategies around the model, many others have found great success using the selections. 

I am now working on more enhanced calculations and am confident that the results will continue to improve in the years to come.