Simple Supertune all Track Profiles (Tune all profiles for a single track for a single wager)
SUPERTUNE - Definition - the process of providing a TARGET VALUE to QuickDog and allowing QuickDog to find an optimum set of WEIGHTING VALUES for a particular handicapping style to provide a maximum value of the TARGET VALUE.
To SUPERTUNE QuickDog uses historical race data and the BACKTEST WAGERING features automatically. As it does this, the weighting factors are changed and tested to customize your handicapping method based on whether you want a large ROI, Winning Percentage, Maximum Bankroll or several other outcomes.
By now you should have become familiar with QuickDog "WEIGHTING FACTORS" and how to tune them manually. If not, then please read about that topic within the "Standard_Method" Menu Bar item before continuing with Simple Supertune.
What you've done is, change the WEIGHTING VALUE for some particular column of a handicapping style, run BACKTEST, then observed the outcome, hoping that some "target value" would improve. The target value might have been your WIN %, or ROI, or even your BANKROLL.
The Simple Supertune feature will allow you to tune multiple track profile for a selected track. QuickDog also has a feature called Supertune which allows you to tune ONE track profile at a time. And there is another feature called SuperHandicap that allows you to tune ONLY THOSE track profiles necessary to handicap today's race program. So, each of these 3 features has its own particular use.
Upon selection of this feature Figure 1 will be displayed. There's a lot of information shown.
Figure 1 - The Simple Supertune Track Profile Selection Menu
This complex looking menu actually shows you which distances and which grades QuickDog currently knows about for the track selected. In this case the track selected is Gulf Greyhound Park, and this track selection was made by simply handicapping any race card at Gulf Greyhound. To select a different track you would simply select a different race program to handicap. As with other features, to cancel this feature, simply click the Right Mouse Button or use the ESC key.
Notice that in addition to the distances and grades, performances are noted. Some tracks have "extra performances" but Simple Supertune doesn't have to ability to supertune track profiles for "extra performance" so use it for Afternoon and Evening performances only.
In order to use Simple Supertune you need to select YES or NO for performances, distances and grades you wish to supertune. Also, you can select one or all of QuickDog's 5 pre-programmed methods and choose 1 Custom Method as well. Notice the Standard Method is selected as YES and all other methods are set to NO initially. The more methods you select, the more track profiles will be supertuned.
Also notice that no performances are selected, but all distances and grades are selected. This means that the track profiles to be supertuned are based on track/distance/grade and handicapping method. If you select Afternoon and Evening performance then track profiles will also be based on the Afternoon or Evening.
Let's look at the actual number of track profiles which will automatically be supertuned using this menu. To calculate that number you simply look at these 4 factors - Performance, Distance, Grade, and Method and if there is a YES setting for those settings create a factor using that count of YES settings.
For example, there are no YES settings for Performance, so we will ignore Performance. There are 2 YES settings for Distance and 7 YES settings for Grade, and we've selected 1 method to supertune (1 YES). So using these 3 factors we calculate the number of track profiles which will be supertuned using this feature. That is 2 x 7 x 1 or 14 total track profiles will be supertuned. This is a lot of work and will take some time for QuickDog to accomplish so you may have time for several cups of coffee.
There is one more setting that we've not addressed and that is the WAGER setting. Simple Supertune always assumes you are tuning for Win % of a particular wager. You can not use Simple Supertune to tune for ROI or Bankroll, so you must use another Supertune feature like Superhandicap or Supertune Track Profile if you wish to set ROI or Bankroll as a tuning TARGET.
So, QuickDog allows you to pick from just a few common wagers. Once again, if you want to supertune some other wager then you'll have to use one of the other supertuning methods. This is Simple Supertune so it is designed with fewer features so that it is easy to use.
Let's simply leave the wager as is - Win Wager. Notice only one wager can be selected at a time. Since Simple Supertune uses Track Profiles Folders in order to superhandicap these track profiles, the Win Wager Track Profiles will be created in the TP_WIN Track Profile Folder. Each of the other wagers are also represented by unique Track Profile Folders. So you may Supertune each of these, then when you handicap a race, you can choose which ever track
Oh, one more setting and that's the NUMBER OF RACES to use in order to supertune our track profiles. You may select any of the choices shown OR QuickDog will use whatever has been previously setup using Backtest, Supertune or Superhandicap (in this case 125 Races has been set).
Now we're ready to let QuickDog do its work. All we need do now is simply to select the RUN NOW button.
After completing your request, QuickDog will pop up a Notepad Window with results of the process. See Figure 3.
Figure 3 - Results of the Simple Supertune Process
For each Track Profile which was Supertuned, information is given. Note line 4 in Figure 3 tells you the name of the track profile which was tuned. Notice that this track profile exists in the \jaidogs\TP_WIN track profile folder. In fact all of these track profiles exist in that folder. This means that in order to access these track profiles you must select this track profile folder using the "Set_Track/Profile_Folders" menu bar item (see the FILE menu bar item. Because you just did a simple supertune, you will notice that QuickDog has automatically selected this track profile folder.
Figure 4 - Simple Supertune Completed (exit by clicking Right Mouse Button)
Click the Right Mouse Button in response to Figure 4 to return to the Handicapping Display and note on the Windows Title Bar - See Figure 5 that the track profile folder is TP_WIN. As you select race after race, also notice that the track profile (GG3125C in Figure 5) changes as the distance and grade change for each race. Also notice that the weighting factors change as well.
Figure 5 - TP_WIN Track Profile automatically set - see Cursor
Finally notice the method success line about 2/3rds of the way down the display on the left side which reads - "WIN 27.20 Pct WGR-1 - 125 RACES". This tells you that in the past 125 races this method was able to pick the winner 27.20 Pct of the time. 27.20 Pct is more than twice the probability by just throwing darts at a dart board having 8 dogs to pick from. So, you've increased your chances of winning this wager. Is 27.20 pct enough to convince you to wager on Class C races of 550 yards at Gulf Greyhound Park. Well, not unless you can get a dog with odds of about 3-1 or better. Because you are only winning every 3rd race approximately. We recommend passing on this type of wager and perhaps trying another type, an exotic wager perhaps.