What is the Composite Score?

You'll notice that we talk a lot about composite score — you'll see it throughout the website as Composite or CS. It's really important.

We started off collating performance ratings alongside suitability ratings. Performance ratings are how we think a dog performed according to its class, its placing, its distance beaten, etc. — a higher grade often gets a higher rating. A win gets a better rating than last place. The usual.

And we have suitability metrics — on a score of 0-100, how good is this dog in this trap? How good is this dog at this distance, this class? Etcetera.

Mush them together, and you have the composite score. Think of it as a weighting on performance using the suitability metrics.

So on racecards, we'll show you the Rating — their performance rating that is — AND the composite score.

When does composite become really important? Well, when you hit a score of 60, composite starts to get really interesting. In fact, that's the foundation for our Hot Dogs page. This is where we have a dog that is ranked 60+ and has no obvious rival — so it's the only dog at 60+ in its race, and it's ahead by a few points or more.

Since we updated our performance ratings during the learning period around 23rd March, you'll see the Hot Dogs are performing really well — and why? Well it's all thanks to the composite score being that initial filter. It is genuinely super useful.