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New Comp - how it will work

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Something different again.  Last week's Bingo comp was a bit of a lottery and was more good luck than good management, but this one will require you to put your thinking caps on and work a little bit harder on framing your selections.  The concept is as follows:

- you have 120 chips to spend on selections of your choice.
- there will be 8 (maybe 10) designated races in which to spend those chips.
- on Thursday night or sometime on Friday I will publish the price (in chips) of each horse in each of the designated races.
- the price in chips will be based on the horses FF odds at the time, for example a $2 favourite will cost 40 chips, a $5 shot will cost you 16 chips, a $10 shot will cost 8 chips, a $20 shot will cost 4 chips, ........
- you can choose how many horses you want to buy - you could buy three $2 favourites (3 x 40 chips = 120 chips) or you could buy 15 horses around the $10 mark  (15 x 8 chips = 120 chips) or some other combination that adds up to 120 chips. This is where the thinking caps (and the calculator or abacus) will be required.
- the only restriction on selections is that you won't be able to choose more than 3 horses in any race   (if there are 8 races that will mean a limit of 24 selections in total)
- you will earn points depending on where your horses finish:  5 points for 1st, 3 points for 2nd, 2 points for 3rd and 1 point for 4th
- the entrant with the most points wins

Worth a try - if it proves too difficult or complicated then we'll revert to some more tried and tested formats.

 

 

 

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A couple of other things to note:


- scratchings can't be replaced with subs (because of different prices) so if you have a scratching you will need to replace it before the posting deadline otherwise that is your loss.  For late scratchings, because you won't have the opportunity to replace, I will pro-rate your final points tally upwards to reflect your reduced spend.  For example you have a horse that cost you 10 chips late scratched then you only spent 110 chips so your final points tally will be pro-rated up by a factor of 120/110. 
- same proration approach for abandoned races (let's hope it doesn't come to that)
- if you post picks that overspend the 120 chip limit I will let you know so you can correct, but if you don't amend your picks before deadline, I will start at the bottom of your list of picks and drop picks until you get back under the 120 chip limit.

This one will sort out the weight-for-agers from the handicappers.  Look out for an entry thread!

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Entry thread will go up tomorrow (Thursday) night, including the cost to buy each of the runners.

In the meantime, the following are the races that we will be using:

Te Rapa R6
Te Rapa R7
Te Rapa R8
Flemington R5
Rosehill R7
Ipswich R7
Ipswich R8
Ipswich R9

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Couple of more detailed rules:

Dead-heats - won't split points if there are dead-heats - will give full points (5,3,2 or 1) to any dead-heating horses.

Tie-breaker - could well have a number of entrants with similar points so tie-breaker (in this order) will be:

- most winners picked
- most 2nd placed runners
- most 3rd placed runners
- most 4th placed runners
- most 5th placed runners
etc .......

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