Filtering by Race Type
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 4:59 pm
TheBetEngine recognises a set of race types derived from a list published by Betfair.
For the past 4 years, races have been tagged in a consistent manner by Betfair. However, in the past couple of days, it looks like the way that Betfair are tagging certain types of races has changed and, as a consequence, TBE is no longer able to match the new race descriptions with the set that it is programmed to recognise.
This has a direct effect on the filtering of races by race type - as races that used to be successfully included are now excluded as they are not a recognised type.
I will be releasing a new version of TBE in the next couple of days with some new race types included - but I suspect that there will be more race types to be "discovered" over the coming weeks/months, and I may need to look at introducing my own race types so I have some further control.
There is no simple fix that can be applied here - if you find that a particular race is missing from your filtered view, then the only workaround is to display ALL races (i.e. remove the filter by race type) and include/exclude races by ticking/unticking the checkbox on the extreme left hand side of the race grid.
Apologies for the inconvenience that this is likely to cause.
Alistair
For the past 4 years, races have been tagged in a consistent manner by Betfair. However, in the past couple of days, it looks like the way that Betfair are tagging certain types of races has changed and, as a consequence, TBE is no longer able to match the new race descriptions with the set that it is programmed to recognise.
This has a direct effect on the filtering of races by race type - as races that used to be successfully included are now excluded as they are not a recognised type.
I will be releasing a new version of TBE in the next couple of days with some new race types included - but I suspect that there will be more race types to be "discovered" over the coming weeks/months, and I may need to look at introducing my own race types so I have some further control.
There is no simple fix that can be applied here - if you find that a particular race is missing from your filtered view, then the only workaround is to display ALL races (i.e. remove the filter by race type) and include/exclude races by ticking/unticking the checkbox on the extreme left hand side of the race grid.
Apologies for the inconvenience that this is likely to cause.
Alistair