Louisville is quieter than usual this weekend, but the sun can still shine bright over your home (regardless of which state it’s in) thanks to 19 featured weekend tourneys offering at least $58,500 in cash plus many seats to important contests (both onsite and online) taking place later in 2020. It all begins on Friday.
Last weekend’s action at HorseTourneys reminded me of a couple of old slogans — both of them gambling related.
With live, brick-and-mortar tournaments on “pause” for the time being, one can’t help but wonder if the field for the 2021 NHC might be a bit smaller than usual. Last week’s tourneys here, however, certainly gave next February’s event a major boost with 14 seats flying out the door.
The featured weekend action gets started with a bang on Friday with a free NHC qualifier at HorsePlayers. You’ll want to familiarize yourself with the parameters, though, because this is not your father’s free NHC qualifier.
Different households deal with staying home all day in various ways. For the Wiener family in Clearwater, Fla., it has apparently been one long game of “Can You Top This?”
This weekend’s featured schedule looks a lot like last weekend’s featured schedule. Not surprising, I suppose, since everything seems on a bit of a holding pattern right now. Not everything is static here at HorseTourneys, however. We hope to have news shortly about new track offerings from Australia…and we already have news about a purse increase in one of our most popular events.
The workweek has taken on a decidedly different feel of late, but Wednesdays are still the humpday in the Monday-to-Friday continuum. Typically, it is just a day to get through and get past…but not for James Henry.
I’m not sure how religious it is, but we here at HorseTourneys are celebrating Easter/Passover weekend with 19 featured events on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In fact, the Easter holiday will bring about a special change in our Sunday schedule. More on that later. First…on to Friday!
Beginning Thursday, April 9, new scoring parameters for the recently-introduced POINTS-BASED scoring will be in place.
Why are we making this change?
After two months of observation, it has become clear to us that the previous parameters overvalued short-priced horses to a degree that we felt was unacceptable. That we would make changes was expected, as we had assumed that some tweaking of the parameters would be necessary. We wanted a good look at the data and trends before making any changes.
While the intent of this format still remains in rewarding consistency, we felt bonus points needed to be increased, so that players picking horses other than the most likely winners were rewarded.
It’s important to point out that the ROI component of the points-based system is still far from that of the standard $2 Win/Place format, so players can still be assured that consistency in selecting winners will still be the primary factor. But, we believe that winners will now exhibit a greater mix of prices. The new parameters are as follows:
WIN/PLACE SHOW POINTS (Unchanged):
WIN: 100 points
PLACE: 50 points
SHOW: 30 points
WIN BONUS POINTS (based on final WIN payout):
any up to $4.00: 0 points
$4.01 to $6.00: 0 points
$6.01 to $8.00: 24 points
$8.01 to $10.00: 36 points
$10.01 to $14.00: 48 points
$14.01 to $20.00: 60 points
$20.01 to $32.00: 84 points
$32.01 and up: 96 points
PLACE BONUS POINTS (based on final PLACE payout):
any to $3.00: 0 points
$3.01 to $4.00: 9 points
$4.01 to $5.00: 12 points
$5.01 to $7.00: 18 points
$7.01 to $9.00: 24 points
$9.01 to $12.00: 30 points
$12.01 to $15.00: 42 points
$15.01 and up: 48 points
These weekend recaps normally cover the Friday/Saturday/Sunday featured action. However, I’ve decided to now include Wednesday in these summaries for two main reasons:
1. We now have some pretty impressive Wednesday offerings—including NHC and Spa & Surf qualifiers.
2.If you’re like me, being home all the time makes it hard to keep the days of the week straight anyway. So why discriminate?
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