A new way to track results?

[JohnCrover]

The standard way to track results is to count hours played and money won or lost, this approach popular because it's easy to count the hours you have been sitting down at a BJ table and just add the wins or losses but it's not the most precise method. The most precise method of keeping track of your wins or losses is to count every hand you have played then graph your winnings and losses with the amount of hands you have played but that's not a popular approach because it's not practical, no one wants to count every single hand of BJ they have played.
Here's what I'm getting at. When you play a 6 deck shoe of Blackjack with 1 deck cut off from the game you're going to get roughly 48 hands played in that shoe, you would be surprised as to how little deviation there is to that number by the way so what I recommend is keeping track of the number of shoes played and then take the number of hands you expect to have played for the amount of shoes you played. For example: I play five six deck shoes so 5x48= 240 hands. There are problems with this method though, for example, a casino patron could jump in and out of the game with you, the dealer might give better or worse penetration than the last or something else. Maybe it's best to track results based off of the number off shoes played. I don't just an idea.

 

[KewlJ]

That would work only if you only play heads up with the dealer ALL the time. What about when other players are at the table. 3 other players would be 24-25 rounds, 5 other player, like 17ish. So not all shoes played will be equal. I guess you could find an average.

But really what matters is rounds played. So that is what I track by my best estimate.

 

[ZenKinG]

The very best way which is something I never ended up doing, but it came across my mind when also trying to find a better way to track results.

What I devised was to buy a stopwatch and everytime you start backcounting or playing heads up or playing in general at a table, you 'start' the stop watch. As soon as you stop backcounting or playing at the table you 'stop' the stopwatch. At the end of your session you see how much 'time' you actually logged and multiple that by 60-80 rounds an hour(Keep in mind rounds 'seen' while backcounting count towards the 60-80). I like to use the 60-80 round figure because I believe the 100 round industry standard estimate is a bit inflated in my opinion for purpose of keeping it simple in books for easy calculations and maybe even for devious reasons to boost up the win rate so these novice card counters read the book and fall in love with the massive hourly rates and keep reading and buying their books, but who knows and who cares.