Rainbow

3.00 Naas  TITANIUM SKY
0.5pts EW 14/1 PaddyPower BOG
I hope everybody's doing as well as can be in these testing times.....and I don't mean on the gambling front ?

3.00 Naas  TITANIUM SKY
0.5pts EW 14/1 PaddyPower BOG
I hope everybody's doing as well as can be in these testing times.....and I don't mean on the gambling front ?

3.00 Naas  TITANIUM SKY
0.5pts EW 14/1 PaddyPower BOG
I hope everybody's doing as well as can be in these testing times.....and I don't mean on the gambling front ?

Thailand

@BillyHills is Mr Punters Lounge, he's more important than me and I own it! Total legend with all the updates. 
Nicely done mate.  

Well done to you guys in the money and unlucky Rainbow who just missed out but had winners every day. Also thanks to BH for running another great comp.

Well done, Steve and a lovely gesture ?

Well done, Steve and a lovely gesture ?

Well done, Steve and a lovely gesture ?

Many thanks BillyHills of Southport (used to live there once) for running this competition. Would like to dedicate the win to a close family member who died just recently and who we say farewell to this Tuesday.

Day 4
Final Leaderboard
First of all many thanks for supporting another exciting competition, 120 players is a top effort
Mully's 50/1 winner turned out to be the key despite Vangovin's late flourish.
Gray306 completes the podium and the prizes are as follows: 
£60: Mully + PL Merchandise?
£25: Vangovin + PL Merchandise
£15: Gray306 + PL Merchandise
Send Name & Address , PL name, Prize being claimed to;
[email protected]
 
Table: Any probs let me know ASAP.
 

 
 
 

5.30 Cheltenham  MILAN NATIVE
0.5pts EW 12/1 Bet365 BOG

Very fair and well worked out - I think it's a great idea ?

Proposals 
As promised is the tables thread I am looking at ways to reward the more consistent players and also ways to keep up the interest to the end of the month.
I find that clear leaders sit on their profit and players attempting to qualify for the Cup are doing the same which leads to many players not picking selections in the last couple of days or more.
Just to be clear I have no feelings one way or another on how players go about approaching the competition, we all have our own way of betting, we just want everyone to feel they have something to play for.
I have noticed over the last few months some rumblings about the way players approach the Naps competition and there is no doubt we have had a shift in more players going for the speculative outsider than we have before.
I had a look at the figures and we are regularly hitting around the 19% S/R these days where as before we were often around the 25% mark. This is totally down to more players going for 25/1+ selections.
The players who genuinely sift through the cards to find their best bet of the day feel as though they have no chance in winning the monthly competition. I can see once a player has hit a 50/1 winner just playing for a Cup place is not the best of incentives.
I think we can reward performance and profit and have been looking at the last 12 months figures to see how we can do it.
At first I thought it would be best just to award the player with the highest strike rate a percentage of the winners prize but I also don't think encouraging people to select 1/4 shots everyday is helping anyone, so taking that a step further, what about if we had a profit figure that you needed to surpass as well?
If we say took the highest strike rate of those that made a profit in the month of at least £10 that would kill off any ideas of odds on shots every single day. Of course you would expect some short priced horses to be chosen and I have no problem with that, if its a Nap, its a Nap but by having the £10 figure it really rewards those that have performed well that month.
I have done a couple of tables to show how it would have panned out since January 2019 up until last month. Interestingly just 2 winners of the comp came out with the best S/R. 8 players were in the top 4 cash prizes but it would have given 7 players a prize that wouldn't have normally received anything. I would say overall that suits most type of punter. Of course people may bet differently knowing about the new prize.
In the second table i took away the upper profit limit and this highlighted the problem of players sitting on a small profit just to qualify for the Cup, I feel this would just get worse if there was a prize for the highest S/R only.
I propose a prize of £20 for player with the highest SR that has at least £10 profit on the month. This prize may well go to a player in the top 4 already but the winner of the whole competition will still quite rightly win the most cash whatever the result.
The second part of the new formula is to limit the amount of players qualifying for the Cup. At the minute anyone finishing in profit (or even, lol) gains automatic qualification into the following months KO Cup. This can be as many as 30+ players and this often leads to a few players reaching a profit figure and then stopping posting for last few days of the month, or even worse players reaching 15 bets and then just stopping. 
If we had a figure of 25 players only to qualify for the Cup then it would make it more exciting and something to aim for in the final few days of the month. I will also award a runners up prize for the KO Cup which has been asked for in the past.
I am not looking to change any of the main rules of the comp, i think we should keep the main core of what the comp is all about ie; picking one horse per day. So we wont be changing that or messing about with stakes etc.....
Let me know if you think this would be a way forward, please bare in mind we have a budget and we want to keep things simple.
 
Proposals as from April 1st
Winner : £60
Second : £30
Third : £20
Fourth: £10
Highest S/R with min £10 Profit : £20
Cup Winner: £30
Cup Runners Up: £10
Top 25 only to qualify for Cup.
 
Table of those with the highest S/R and achieving a £10 profit 

 
 
Table of those with the highest S/R, no upper limit on profit
Those in grey did not make the £10 profit mark.

 

1.35 Wolverhampton  ASSIMILATION
0.5pts EW 12/1 Coral BOG

1.35 Wolverhampton  ASSIMILATION
0.5pts EW 12/1 Coral BOG

3.00 Wincanton  GOODGIRLTERESA
0.5pts EW 16/1 Betfair BOG

Dizzy cow! ?‍♀️

Cant have 2 goes?
 
 

Thank you! ?

Oh your in Div 8, its been missed off, i'm sure your in the Selection thread.
I'm just as bad by the way @Rainbow
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With the ever changing landscape of the bookmaking industry it is becoming very confusing to some on which bookmakers we can use and which bookmakers allow BOG, and from which time it is allowed.
We have decided to narrow the choice of bookmakers and to allow BOG with all selections posted in the competition regardless of time. This will make it much easier for both players and me when settling the bets.
From March 1st the rules regarding bookmakers we use will be as follows;
The only 5 bookmakers allowed in the competition are;
Bet365 Paddy Power/Betfair (same prices) Betvictor William Hill Betfred Any selections posted with any other bookmaker will be settled at SP
 
Many thanks
 

2.25 Ascot  BALLYOPTIC
1pt win 9/1 Bet365 BOG

2.25 Ascot  BALLYOPTIC
1pt win 9/1 Bet365 BOG

4.30 Newcastle  HUNTERS STEP
1pt win 14/1 Bet365 BOG