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Most wide open Cheltenham for years.

Blimey guys, data bases? Spread sheets?....I remember the good old days of walking down to the bookies to get on my ante posters and actually getting a betting slip and taking it home and putting it with the others tucked into a sock. A couple of days before Cheltenham I would take them all out (when the wife was at work!) and organise them into their running order, otherwise known then as data basing and information correlation!!
 
Star Of A Gunner said:
Blimey guys, data bases? Spread sheets?....I remember the good old days of walking down to the bookies to get on my ante posters and actually getting a betting slip and taking it home and putting it with the others tucked into a sock. A couple of days before Cheltenham I would take them all out (when the wife was at work!) and organise them into their running order, otherwise known then as data basing and information correlation!!
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Its all good with bet slips but with bets spread across several online accounts its easy to lose track of what you have
 
Yeah Ryan, I was sorta thinking of the days before online accounts.i have the same probs now with bets all over the place with different online bookies.
 
Yeah its difficult, its not so much that I care which bookie I have a bet with its just wanting to know how many times ive got a horse
 
Star Of A Gunner said:
Blimey guys, data bases? Spread sheets?....I remember the good old days of walking down to the bookies to get on my ante posters and actually getting a betting slip and taking it home and putting it with the others tucked into a sock. A couple of days before Cheltenham I would take them all out (when the wife was at work!) and organise them into their running order, otherwise known then as data basing and information correlation!!
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They don't stock enough bet slips to keep up with me :highly_amused:
 
J.J.B sports , 6 pairs for £4 kev. !
 
:highly_amused: either that or I could use my tights :confused:
 
ryanh97 said:
Im trying to make 1 with a selection column, e/w(yes/no), odds, stake, potential winnings and then outcome and returns. Am I over complicating it because im having difficulty with a getting the potential returns because of e/w terms
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I found the easiest way to work out returns with E/W bets was to place a dummy bet on one of the sites at the odds that you had and look at the potential returns - Is that cheating !
 
Joleg said:
I found the easiest way to work out returns with E/W bets was to place a dummy bet on one of the sites at the odds that you had and look at the potential returns - Is that cheating !
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That would work for a winner but not if the horse only placed?
Thank god there's no women on this forum, cos it's rapidly developing into how many men does it take to change a lightbulb territory :highly_amused:
 
I can see the benefit in having a piece of paper (spreadhseet if you want to give it a name) that contains all your bets together with the pick ups for each bet so you know your position as the festival develops.
 
ryanh97 said:
Im trying to make 1 with a selection column, e/w(yes/no), odds, stake, potential winnings and then outcome and returns. Am I over complicating it because im having difficulty with a getting the potential returns because of e/w terms
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You manage to sort it Ryan? Split it into two columns. One for win, one for place.

For win column write formulae to multiply stake by odds
The place is slightly more complicated. I have another column which tells me if it 1/4 or 1/5 the odds. I use the win odd column, -1, divided by place terms column (1/4, or 1/5 odds etc) multiples by each way stake.

I'll have to try and find a way of posting it on here because it's bloody complicated trying to explain it. I find using the IF formulae works best.
 
I thought I was doing pretty good with a spreadsheet but seems to be pretty basic compared to some on here :D

Simple stake * odds for the win column for me, then I use https://www.aceodds.com/bet-calculator/accumulator.html to work out the each way bets and just manually put it in.

I also don't tally up the potential winnings beforehand. I'll keep a full record of the date, bet, odds, stake then leave the potential winnings and vs SP blank - fill it all in after the festival. Then keep a tally of my profit/loss for each year and the total since starting antepost.

Never filled in the potential winnings column since doing this. It's pretty clear what a lot of the bets could win me and i'll know easily roughly what needs to come in to break even and above for the year but I don't like to tally that all up until the race is done. Would rather the exact winnings are a surprise rather than on the eve before the festival see I could win XXXXX only to win XX
 
Cheers FM. I was thinking id have to do it like that but was hoping to do it tidier in 1 formula. Will have something up by the end of the night guys :)
 
jono said:
I thought I was doing pretty good with a spreadsheet but seems to be pretty basic compared to some on here :D

Simple stake * odds for the win column for me, then I use https://www.aceodds.com/bet-calculator/accumulator.html to work out the each way bets and just manually put it in.

I also don't tally up the potential winnings beforehand. I'll keep a full record of the date, bet, odds, stake then leave the potential winnings and vs SP blank - fill it all in after the festival. Then keep a tally of my profit/loss for each year and the total since starting antepost.

Never filled in the potential winnings column since doing this. It's pretty clear what a lot of the bets could win me and i'll know easily roughly what needs to come in to break even and above for the year but I don't like to tally that all up until the race is done. Would rather the exact winnings are a surprise rather than on the eve before the festival see I could win XXXXX only to win XX
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You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done

;)
 
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