Sunday, May. 11, 2014

Favourites Statistics - National Hunt (Part 1)

As promised, I have analysed the fate of favourites at all courses over the past 3 seasons. You should use these statistics in your lay betting, because the courses range immensely. I know of one ebook/manual that contains similar stats, and that is False Favourites.

As with all statistics, you need something to gauge the individual courses against - we will use the overall statistics, which would be all of the races. What we are looking for, to lay, are the criteria where the strike rate is well below the norm (highlighted). I have copied below, the overall figures and the first few courses:

ALL HURDLES (ALL) 5516 1838 33.32 - 551.27
HANDICAP HURDLES 2622 624 23.80 - 381.21
CHASES (ALL) 4366 1394 31.93 - 379.47
HANDICAP CHASES 3775 713 25.69 - 264.79
NHF 809 269 33.25 - 71.32
ASCOT HURDLES (ALL) 79 26 32.91 - 9.78
NOVICE HURDLES 33 14 42.42 - 2.22
HANDICAP HURDLES 32 6 18.75 - 8.50
CHASES (ALL)` 70 23 32.86 - 10.31
NOVICE CHASES 17 3 17.65 - 12.91
HANDICAP CHASES 39 10 35.64 - 3.88
NHF 13 5 38.46 2.85
AYR HURDLES (ALL) 112 36 32.14 - 14.23
NOVICE HURDLES 45 20 45.45 - 1.64
HANDICAP HURDLES 71 17 23.94 - 13.39
CHASES (ALL) 96 34 35.42 - 4.09
HANDICAP CHASES 66 20 30.30 - 3.17
NHF 17 5 29.41 - 7.73
BANGOR HURDLES (ALL) 155 49 31.61 - 28.69
HANDICAP HURDLES 77 16 20.78 - 19.88
CHASES (ALL) 123 38 30.89 - 14.48
HANDICAP CHASES 75 20 26.67 - 7.27
NHF 21 8 38.46 3.08
CARLISLE HURDLES (ALL) 49 9 18.37 - 21.52
HANDICAP HURDLES 31 3 9.68 - 18.25
CHASES (ALL) 138 45 32.61 - 0.11
HANDICAP CHASES 87 25 28.74 10.33
NHF 10 4 40.00 1.88