Geo blocking helped increase

[Chief Stipe]

8 minutes ago, curious said:

Really? Where did I say that. Just bought another one a month ago!

And my NZTAB turnover has doubled in the last 2 months.

Online.

NZTAB turnover is hardly an investment.

[curious]

4 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

If you use the crude application of stats then Geo-blocking has had resulted in a 50% improvement.  I.e. July is up 4% and August is up 6%.  A difference of 50%.

Buggered if I know how 4% and 6% increases since the legislation was effected become 50% .... lol

[curious]

16 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Online.

NZTAB turnover is hardly an investment.

Online where? 

NZTAB turnover is definitely an investment for me. That's what pays for the racehorses. Unfortunately the finance director won't let me take those costs out of the household budget.

Edited 6 hours ago by curious

[mikeynz]

2 hours ago, curious said:

Racing Turnover

Month	2024 Turnover (NZ Racing)	2025 Turnover (NZ Racing)	YoY Change
July	~NZ$52 million 1	~NZ$54 million 2	↑ ~4%
August	~NZ$53 million 1	~NZ$56 million 2	↑ ~6%

 

• Fixed odds betting now accounts for 90% of win/place turnover in 2025, compared to ~85% in 2024 
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• Tote betting continues to dominate exotic bets (e.g., trifectas, quinellas) with 75% market share, but fixed odds are gaining ground 
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🏉 Sports Betting Turnover

Month	2024 Turnover (Sports)	2025 Turnover (Sports)	YoY Change
July	~NZ$60 million 1	~NZ$71 million 2	↑ ~18%
August	~NZ$62 million 1	~NZ$73 million 2	↑ ~17%

I would believe those figures if every meeting was individually displayed in all its glory somsomewhere.

Edited 4 hours ago by mikeynz

[Chief Stipe]

28 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

I would believe those figures if every meeting was individually displayed in all its glory somsomewhere.

Why would ENTAIN do that?  They have no legislated obligation to do that at the micro-level.  Their responsibility is to their shareholders.  What's more why do you actually need to know?  I gather given your negativity that you are not even a shareholder.

[mikeynz]

1 minute ago, Chief Stipe said:

Why would ENTAIN do that?  They have no legislated obligation to do that at the micro-level.  Their responsibility is to their shareholders.  What's more why do you actually need to know?  I gather given your negativity that you are not even a shareholder.

But it is interesting, betting figures always have been.

[Chief Stipe]

28 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

But it is interesting, betting figures always have been.

That they may well be and at one time it was important to allocate oncourse based funding.  But in today's world the average person can't distinguish between what they need to know and why they would like to know let alone statistically understand it.

Looking at the Covid pandemic it would appear that many scientists didn't understand data either and politicians weaponised it.  That's the danger with distributing all the data on a regular basis let alone basing KPI's on them.

This Topic is a good example of that.  Yes thank you @Kit Walker for posting the data.  But does a 4 raceday one week data set prove anything? 

[curious]

2 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

That they may well be and at one time it was important to allocate oncourse based funding.  But in today's world the average person can't distinguish between what they need to know and why they would like to know let alone statistically understand it.

Really? Can you? What exactly was oncourse based funding?

Edited 46 minutes ago by curious

[Huey]

3 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

That they may well be and at one time it was important to allocate oncourse based funding.  But in today's world the average person can't distinguish between what they need to know and why they would like to know let alone statistically 

People want to know so they know when to turn the lights out.