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Ok. I apologize

Both have been changed, BA a major change and SBA a minor change. This is from the change log:

10/27/2023 11:17 AM Ammit added:

Breeding advice functionality has been changed. I had planned to give the conversation one more day but people seem pretty resoundingly in favor of the change. There has been a minor change to strict breeding advice and a major one to standard breeding advice.
-The strict breeding advice change actually applies to all breeding advice testing but will be more noticeable on SBA. Any horse that is cap quality breeding ability or higher (from boosting) will always pass all breeding advice. It makes sense that if that is the best you can breed then that is exactly the sort of horses we should be breeding more of.
-Previously both forms of breeding advice checked the raw breeding ability of the foal against the raw breeding ability of the parents to see how those numbers compare. While that is great if you are breeding dead even and want to make sure every foal is an improvement it was punishing to uneven breeding in a way that was not disrable. The new breeding advice instead tells you if the foal is a good outcome for that specific pairing. This is a huge boon to those who breed horses at very high ability levels, and those trying to rapidly bootstrap show strings. It also evens out the breeding advice cull rate to roughly 25% of foals being intact from any given cross.
There is more info and some number examples on the forum for those interested.

Only basic changed how it judges a horse, but since the change for cap horses impacts all breed advice you will see horses passing SBA that did not before.

I’m loving the new BA system for my cap-level and boosted breeding combos. I can already tell it’s going to save me hbs because I can run all of the fillies that are **Gold papered through BA as an initial weed out before doing my usual comp testing. Now I don’t have to do quite as much comp testing :) I also don’t have to worry about accidentally spelding the majority of my breeding stock now

Thanks. I really appreciate the people let me know when things are helping them out. I used it on my bootstrap herd as well and loved the results.