A jockey may take part in more than one race in a meeting. A stable may start more than one horse in a race. When we are doing analysis on a race, especially a coming race, usually we do not want data of other races of the same day to be included. For example, we are doing statistics for a jockey in the 6 th race of the meeting on 20/3/2008, usually we do not want data of other races of the same meeting, say the 4 th race of in the same day, to be counted. The cIncluding parameter can control whether races in the same meeting are taken into account.
cIncluding |
Description |
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If you do not pass any value to the cIncluding parameter, races in the same meeting will not be taken into account by default. |
'D' |
Starts of the same meeting will be taken into account. However, starts in the same race will still be excluded. 'D' is not applicable to horse records because a horse will not start twice in one meeting. |
'R' |
Starts in the same meeting including those in the same race will be taken into account. 'R' is only applicable to stable records because only stable can have 2 starts in the same race. |
'C' (only for statistics) |
Including the underlying start, i.e., all horses in the same day, same race and underlying start. Only valid for statistical functions. |
For example, the average rating figure returned by the following functions will be different.
SrAverage('SrRating( )',20) |
Starts in the same meeting are not counted |
SrAverage('SrRating( )',20,,'D') |
Starts in the same meeting, excluding the same race, will be counted. |
SrAverage('SrRating( )',20,,'R') |
Starts in the same meeting, including the same race, will be counted. |
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