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Record W2482869381 · doi:10.1142/9789812819192_0047

Pricing Exotic Racetrack Wagers

2008· preprint· en· W2482869381 on OpenAlexaff
Donald B. Hausch, Victor S. Y. Lo, William T. Ziemba

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Scientific handbook in financial economic series · 2008
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicSports Analytics and Performance
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStochastic gameOddsProbability modelEconometricsRunning timeEconomicsMathematical economicsMathematicsStatisticsMathematical optimizationLogistic regression

Abstract

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AbstractNumerous authors have found that the win market at racetracks is essentially weak-form efficient. The relative amounts wagered at various odds levels provides a fairly accurate estimate of the true chances of winning. However, the accuracy of this estimate can be improved by adjusting for the favorite-longshot bias. This is the tendency for bettors to significantly overvalue low probability high payoff wagers on longshots and significantly undervalue high probability low payoff favorites. The resulting pricing equation coupled with a probability model for running time distributions generates accurate probabilities of all possible finishes. This allows us to price exotic wagers such as the exactor, triactor, quinella and daily double, and to identify when such bets have a positive expected return.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.716
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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