ALL-Ways^™ Version 12 Professional Edition Features 

The Following Features are Exclusive to the Professional Edition of ALL-Ways 

Multiple Profile Handicapping

The Standard Edition allows you to use one Handicapping Profile to handicap each race. The Professional Edition allows you to use three different Handicapping Profiles ... simultaneously ... and then integrates the results in its selection of contenders. A major benefit of this feature is the high percentage of place and show horses, in addition to win horses, that are in the contender list. It is also a great way to simultaneously handicap a race from three different perspectives.

Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) Custom Function

Both the Standard and Professional Editions include the MRA Default and MRA Pace Handicapping Profile functions. The Professional Edition also includes the MRA Custom function which analyzes only the races that have passed your race screens and then creates a Handicapping Profile targeted at those specific kinds of races. For example, you can instruct ALL-Ways to create a Handicapping Profile for non-maiden 6 and 6 ½ furlongs dirt sprints carded for 3 and up fillies and mares where the winner had a mutual payoff over $15. The power of the MRA Custom function is in being able to:

• "zero in" on specific kinds of races
• create profiles aimed specifically at finding high paying horses
• create profiles aimed specifically at finding place horses and finding show horses

Race Card MRA Function

The Race Card MRA function will automatically create a Multiple Regression Analysis Handicapping Profile for each individual race on the race card. When you run the Race Card function, ALL-Ways will, for each race on the card, automatically isolate similar races in your Race Database for the track and then use advanced Multiple Regression Analysis techniques to build a Handicapping Profile for that specific race on that specific race card. And, the resulting Race Card MRA profile will look, not just for the winning horse, but for the place and show horses as well. And, if you are a fan of BRIS Custom Card, you will be able to create a unique MRA Handicapping Profile for each individual race on the Custom Card.

User Preference For The Factors To Be Considered By Multiple Regression For Creating Profiles

You can control which of the 87 Primary Handicapping Factors that you want the Multiple Regression Analysis functions to consider when automatically creating the MRA Default, MRA Pace, Race Card MRA and MRA Custom Handicapping Profiles.

Pro Custom Search

• Pro Custom Search Definition creation
• Pro Custom Search Definition testing
• Pro Custom Search results on the new Search Handicapping Report

The Pro Custom Search feature lets you design your own personal handicapping angles, which in ALL-Ways, are called Search Definitions.  You can then test these angles against your track database(s) for win and in-the-money percentages, average win payoff and win ROI.  At handicapping time, ALL-Ways will evaluate every angle that you have designated for the specific type of race being run and find all horses that qualify based on the Search Definition elements. ALL-Ways will then show you the search results on the new Search Handicapping Report. This is unbelievably powerful stuff! Here is an example: 

Sample Pro Custom Search Definition

This Custom Search Definition instructs ALL-Ways to look for horses that have a Hall Final Fraction Paceline Gap advantage of 3 points, that have the top ALL-Ways Comprehensive Rating or are within 5 points of the top ranked horse and that have the top BRIS Prime Power rating or within 3 points of the top ranked horse, that have run in-the-money on the same surface as today's race and that have run a good race within the last 90 days. 

We used the Pro Custom Search feature to test this Search Definition for non maiden inner turf routes at Belmont. ALL-Ways found such a qualifying horse in about 6% of the races. The horses won 62% of their races and yielded a whopping win ROI of 93%.  These horses finished in-the-money 88% of the time.

ALL-Ways gives you great flexibility in creating your Search Definitions. Each definition can have up to 7 elements and there is no limit to the number of definitions you can create. You can even build a special Search Definition Library, click a button to automatically test all the definitions against a track database and then copy the best definitions from the Library to the specific track. You can also build a Default File of Search Definitions that ALL-Ways will use for handicapping a track until you have built up your own database for the track.

It is axiomatic in horse racing that good angles do not occur very often. If they did, too many people would play the angle and it would lose its value.  The angle in our sample Search Definition occurred in only 6% of the races. Now imagine that you have developed 20 or 30 or 40 or 100 different angles and consider that ALL-Ways will do all the work to look for qualifying horses in every race you handicap.  Like we said, this is one very powerful capability.

391 “True/False” Handicapping Factors

Version 11 expands on the “True/False” handicapping factors first introduced in Version 10 for use in Custom Search Definitions. Version 10 included 91 such factors. There are now a total of 391 factors in the Professional Edition. These factors are available for use in Custom Search Definitions and for use by the ALL-Ways Angle Assistant. They cover how a horse handles different distances and surfaces, its current form, its class level, its speed and pace figures, jockey and trainer performance (both individually and as a team), the horse’s pedigree and multiple comprehensive ratings. And, perhaps most impressive and important, the “True/False” factors include “situational” handicapping factors. Here is a sampling of just a few of the situations you can have ALL-Ways automatically evaluate with these “True/False” factors:

• Has the horse run to the BRIS Speed Par for today’s race?
• Has the horse won or run a good race at or near today’s weight or higher?
• Is the horse exiting a fast pace race? If so, did it win or run a “good” race?
• Has the horse run in a race with a pace similar to what is projected for today’s race? If so, did it win or run a “good” race?
• How well has the horse performed as a favorite … a loss, a win or a good race?
• Is the horse using Lasix for the first time?
• Are blinkers going on in today’s race? Are blinkers coming off in today’s race?
• Did the horse have trouble in its last race? Did it win or run a “good” race despite the trouble?
• Did the horse have a wide trip in its last race? Did it win or run a “good” race despite the wide trip?
• Did the horse make a “double move” (“V” Pattern”) in its last race? Did it win or run a “good” race? 
• Is the horse coming off a layoff today? Has it won or run a good race after a previous similar layoff?

Using these new “True/False” factors, including the powerful situational factors with the ALL-Ways Angle Assistant described below, gives you the unprecedented capability to automatically create powerful angles and to have ALL-Ways automatically search for horses that qualify.

The Angle Assistant

Custom Search Definitions, first introduced in Version 10, allow you to create your own personal handicapping angles. Then, at handicapping time, ALL-Ways automatically examines every horse in the race to see if the horse qualifies by meeting the criteria specified in one or more of your angles. ALL-Ways shows you the results of this examination on the Search Handicapping Report.

The big question is, of course, what handicapping factor combinations should you include in your personal angles. In ALL-Ways Version 10, the process of determining the factors to use was pretty much a “trial and test” proposition. You put the factors you wanted to test into the Custom Search Definition and then tested the definition using your Race Database for the track. If you liked the result, you kept the Search Definition. If not, you either modified it or tossed it out.

The Angle Assistant, introduced in ALL-Ways Version 11, changes all of this. The Angle Assistant automatically examines literally billions (that is billions with a “b”) of possible handicapping factor combinations and finds the combinations that produce the best handicapping and wagering results. 

Even reasonably fast computers require several hours of computing/processing time to evaluate all the possible factor sets. GOOD NEWS! Because of the ingenious way the Angle Assistant has been designed, you do not need to worry about how long all this takes. Here is why.  These evaluations, which are called Full Updates, need only be done every once in a while, maybe 2 or 3 times a year. ALL-Ways will actually perform these Full Updates while you sleep or when you are away at work or at play.

Angle Assistant Queries

When ALL-Ways performs the Full Updates, a record is kept in your computer of every Factor Set that met the minimum requirements of the Full Update process.  Now, after the Full Updates are done, you can review the results including setting your own minimum requirements for the number of horses, the win percent, the ROI percent, the in-the-money percent as well as the average win, place and show payoffs. When you set the minimums and ask ALL-Ways to find the factor sets that meet your requirements, you are performing what is called a Query. Running a Query only takes a matter of seconds! The results of the Query will then be displayed for you. You can also have the Angle Assistant instantly sort the Query results by most qualifying horses, by highest win percent, by highest win return-on-investment, by highest in-the-money percent, by highest average win payoff, by highest average place payoff and by highest average show payoff. 

As you review the Factor Sets that meet your minimums you can  decide whether or not you want a particular Factor Set to be turned into a Custom Search Definition, If you do, you simply click a button and ALL-Ways will automatically create the Search Definition for you.  Then, at handicapping time, ALL-Ways will automatically identify horses that qualify. This is clearly an industry breakthrough!

Automatic Function

This feature in the Analysis Module is a tremendous time saver. Simply click a single button and ALL-Ways will:

• Automatically update your MRA Default profiles
• Automatically update your MRA Pace profiles
• Automatically update your Custom MRA profiles (ALL-Ways "remembers the Race Screens you used when you originally created the Custom MRA profiles)
• Automatically run the powerful Race Card functions
• Automatically update the Gap Analysis Statistics
• Automatically update the Key Horse statistics
• Automatically update the Profile Performance Statistics so the effectiveness of all your profiles is shown on handicapping reports

In other words, this simple click of a button does everything to get you 100% ready to handicap the races. And, new in Version 11 Professional Edition, you can even instruct ALL-Ways to do all of this automatically for up to four different tracks at the same time. Again, this is a real time saver.

Custom Handicapping Reports

By simply clicking the mouse button, you can design your own custom handicapping reports with just the information you want to see. There are 240 different fields to choose from when you design a report, including additional handicapping factors that are only available on Custom Reports and, consequently, only available in the Professional Edition. ALL-Ways lets you design up to 28 different Custom Reports. Also, a "standard" Custom Report is the Automatic Profile Report that automatically includes all the handicapping factors that are in the Handicapping Profile in profile position #1.

Customizable Top 10/Ranking Report

For the Top 10 part of this extremely powerful report, you can select from eight different factors, including BRIS and Hall speed and pace figures and including First Call Pace. You can customize the Ranking part of this report by choosing 16 different factors from a list of 58 possible factors that can be used.

Handicapping Session Template

This new feature lets you define the handicapping reports and Handicapping Profiles you want to use in the Handicapping Module. Handicapping reports may include both the standard handicapping reports and any Custom Reports you may have created. Your definition is contained in what is called a Handicapping Session Template. There is a separate template for each of 12 different race types. In this way, you can specify different profiles and reports for sprints and routes, for maiden and non-maiden races, for dirt and turf races and for dry and off tracks.  The Handicapping Session Template also lets you assign alternative Handicapping Profiles in the event your primary choice is not available. You can even instruct ALL-Ways to automatically use specific profiles for different Race Pace Shapes (pace pressure). At handicapping time, when you select a race and click RACE OK, ALL-Ways will automatically select the Handicapping Profiles and turn on the handicapping reports you specify in your Handicapping Session Template. You may also add/delete/change any report or profile at handicapping time. This feature is a great time saver. You can process a full race card in the Handicapping Module in just a couple minutes.

Re-sequencing Printed Handicapping Reports

Another new feature that is an offshoot of the Handicapping Session Template is that you can customize the sequence of the handicapping reports you print including intermixing standard and Custom Reports.

Export Function

With the simple click of a button, the Professional Edition lets you export a race, an entire race card or your entire Race Database for a track into popular spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel and popular database programs such as Microsoft Access. You can then use the sort and query functions in these programs to extend your analysis of the handicapping factors in ALL-Ways. Watch out! This really is addictive. It is great fun.

Paceline Override Function

For those so inclined, this function allows you to quickly and easily change the paceline that was automatically selected by ALL-Ways for a horse. Included in this function is the ability, by simply clicking one button, to print out the Past Performance Report for a single race or all the Past Performance reports for an entire race card.

Track Reports

The Professional Edition allows you to print out the detailed Track Pars, chronological Daily Track Variants and chronological Quirin Race Shapes as well as a very detailed Track Bias Profile. We have many professional horseplayers using ALL-Ways who find this in-depth data extremely useful .... and these reports are unique to ALL-Ways.

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