So, I'm sure someone has done this before but I wanted to give it a go myself. I am starting with two sets of store bought Quarter Horses. One pair is on an upgraded account and will get only enter all shows. The second pair will be on a basic account and have hand picked shows. I want to see how much difference there is between basic and upgraded training. I thought it could be fun to watch and see and share my results here. So each week, after all of that weeks shows have run, I'll post their points here so that everyone can see how it goes. :)

Here are the accounts the horses are on:

Quarter Horse Experiment - Upgraded

Quarter Horse Experiment - Basic

*Special notes: The first major difference is basic accounts only get 70 shows a week vs. 80 shows that upgrades get. This also means they only get 28,000 entrance points vs. 32,000 entrance points.

Week 1:

Upgraded Mare: 97,980

Upgraded Stallion: 102,470

Basic Mare: 108,200

Basic Stallion: 101,180

Week 2:

Upgraded Mare: 189,630

Upgraded Stallion: 196,790

Basic Mare: 208,960

Basic Stallion: 171,880

Week 3:

Upgraded Mare: 292,440

Upgraded Stallion: 281,480

Basic Mare: 272,560

Basic Stallion: 253,620

Week 4:

Upgraded Mare: 382,610

Upgraded Stallion: 382,630

Basic Mare: 360,660

Basic Stallion: 336,400

Week 5:

Upgraded Mare: 488,140

Upgraded Stallion: 472,910

Basic Mare: 458,620

Basic Stallion: 446,640

Week 6:

Upgraded Mare: 584,530

Upgraded Stallion: 564,370

Basic Mare: 549,020

Basic Stallion: 545,100

Week 9:

Upgraded Mare: 927,800

Upgraded Stallion: 940,070

Basic Mare: 905,820

Basic Stallion: 905,600

-whispers- _{That's how to succeed on points in the mascot no-tix category, what Insomnia's doing for her experiment. It's tedious AF to do for the entirety of mascot, but that's how to wrack up the points for that category!}

imma do that next year I think xD

The proof is in your results on that one insom lol 

I posted last weeks results. Everyone seems to be gaining a steady rouly 100k a week but without those extra 10 shows the lag behind. I'm thinking my next round of the experiment I might give a basic pair the permanent extra energy or something and see if that closes the gap.

oops -face palm- I was bad about posting the data for 2 weeks but I put up what they are now!

Just some clarification questions: When you guys talk about hand-picking that literally means clicking on the show and looking how many animals are already entered into the show, right? And how do you know that 20 more animals aren't just going to be entered into a hand picked show after you entered your animal into that one? Is there an advantage to be the first or third animal entered into the show before it "runs"? I'm a little lost on how one can be so precise in choosing shows when I thought it was sort of a random chance when the shows run -- like you can't guarantee first place placement in show, or can you?

I'm sorry I'm ignorant in the science behind this. I've never thought there could be planning in a chance placement of a show run. 

🧐 this is still fascinating to me 

Eyre- that's pretty much it. the best chance for it to work is to do like 10 per day like an hour or 2 before midnight game time. so there is less chance of too many more being added to the show.

Sat- it really is very interesting! The basics are at a disadvantage but only by a little bit.

Yeah, that's why is so time consuming, Eyre. :P Works well, though.