I have brought up the subject of the selectors a few times
over the years, but no one seems to find the topic interesting.
For me, there are 2 immediate issues:
A - Do their selections have any merit at all? Are they at least
putting a dent in the takeout?
B - How do their picks affect the betting? How much can you expect
your payout to be squished when you make the same selection as
them. ( consensus: 2 out of 3 or better)
After the last handicapping contest, I posted a question regarding
how the selectors would have done. No interest there either, but
then I discovered than Dania had been archiving their PDF program
pages for some time, so technically the information was available.
So it was just a matter of downloading all the pdf program pages,
running them thru a pdf to text converter, dealing with conversion
artifacts / anomalies, grabbing the selector's picks, putting
them into a database, and then analyzing the crap out of them.
So yeah, I know how the Babe, Jimmy, and Jose would have done
in the Summer Sizzler. As well as almost 2 years worth of picks.
If you are interested I can dig out the data and post something
tomorrow.
