https://formline.casinobonus.plus/How the figure printed next to a competitor is produced - the form string and what it leaves out, the official rating and how it moves, the speed figure and the going allowance that decides it, the weight carried, the class of the race, the size of the sample behind the number, and what a figure cannot say. Every figure on this site is derived from eight invented samples.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/A form string, an official rating and a speed figure are three different things, and each is built from inputs the printed number leaves out. Worked arithmetic for the string, the mark, the going allowance, the weight and the sample, from eight invented samples.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-form-lineA form string is the finishing position of the last six runs, written newest first, with letters for a fall, a pull-up or a disqualification. It is complete on the position and silent on the distance, the ground, the field size and the margin.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-official-ratingAn official rating is a mark a handicapper moves after each run, so that the next race between the same runners is close on paper. Worked arithmetic for a mark that moved four times in six runs, and for the weight it turns into.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-speed-figureA speed figure is a time turned into a number: the run is compared with a standard time for the distance, corrected for the ground and the weight, and scaled. The standard time, the allowance and the scale are all chosen by the publisher.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-goingThe going is the state of the ground. It is published as a word, measured with a stick, and inferred from the times. In one invented meeting of 24 races the description disagreed with the times seven times.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-weightWeight is printed on every card and it is the smallest correction applied to a figure. A 12 lb spread is 5.44 kg and 2.4 points on a 6f scale, against 19.2 points for the ground in the same sample.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-classThe class of a race is the band of official ratings it is open to plus its conditions. In one invented 0-90 handicap, forty entries produced twenty runners, decided by a mark published five days before the race.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-sampleA figure is a summary of a handful of runs. One invented runner's six speed figures span 16.9 points, its best run is one of the six, and that spread is 2.4 times the gap that separated three runners in a single race.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-splitSectionals split a race into parts. In one invented 6f race the winner was 7.0 points clear over the whole trip and 2.0 points behind over the last three furlongs, so two figures from one race rank two runners differently.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-rating-systemA team rating and a competitor's mark are the same arithmetic: a prior, a result and an update weight. In one invented match a 1500-rated team beating a 1600-rated one moved both by 15.4 points.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-conditionsA race's conditions are everything it states besides its band: distance, ages, penalties, allowances, entry and the ballot. In one invented handicap forty entries produced twenty runners, cut at a single pound of mark.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-cardForty invented race cards were read for what they publish. Weights and form strings appear on all forty, the official rating on 27, a third-party figure on 12, the standard time and the going allowance on none of them.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/what-a-figure-cannot-sayA figure compresses a past run. It cannot price the next one, it cannot rank without a scale, and in one invented race the highest-rated runner finished third while the winner was rated fourth of eight.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/the-numbersThe eight invented samples and the arithmetic behind every number on this desk: the 48 runs in the form string, a mark that moved 8 lb in six runs, a 19.2 point going allowance and a 16.9 point spread.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/mythsSix common beliefs about race-card figures, checked against the desk's own samples: the highest figure, the meaning of a mark, what a string carries, the ground correction, the objectivity of a figure and the weight of one run.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/faqTwelve questions about the figures printed on a race card, answered in full: what a form string means, how an official rating moves, how a speed figure is computed, what a going allowance is and why two figures differ.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/aboutHow The Form Line is built: eight invented samples, every figure re-derivable, one disclosed partner link, no rankings, no selections and no product ratings anywhere on the site.https://formline.casinobonus.plus/legalThe commercial relationship, the adult-only and risk warnings, and the limits of what an explanatory figure desk can tell you - stated plainly rather than left to a footer.