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20 horse fields are chaotic, especially with positioning and horses getting boxed in, bumped, shuffled, going insanely wide into stretch. Forte got a horrible draw, but there hasn't been a better jockey over the past 2-3 years to handle it than Irad Ortiz. The 3/1 (probably ends up going off at 2/1 or worse) isn't that appealing for straight win bets. Maybe key him over those 3?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds - this is a good book that touches on how accurate predictions by groups can be. With horse racing, in aggregate, the wagering favorite wins ~30% of the time (field sizes vary), or one of the top 2 betting choices ~55% of the time.

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As already mentioned, The Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas is probably the most well known collection on a national level. Pittsburgh has two good collections-- Pinball PA, with various solid states up to modern machines, and Pinball Perfection, with more old (wood rail) tables and rarer tables like Banzai Run and the often-broken Circus Voltaire.

There is a growing number of public collections of modern Stern/Jersey Jack/CGC/American/etc. typically in barcade or enthusiast collections made public environments-- like The Pinball Garage outside of Cincinnati (the owner builds/built vpin cabinets), The Pinball Museum of Corbin in rural KY (50 or so modern tables, mostly Stern) or The Asheville Pinball Museum. They will all vary in quantity and quality (both in games and maintenance)-- so use Pinball Map and see where your favorites (or rare tables) are actually at.

Visual Pinball X and Zen Pinball are probably the two most prominent emulators.

If anyone likes other coin operated esoterica, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum outside of Detroit is worth a visit. Lots of 19th-early 20th century rare mechanical attractions and maybe 10 new pinballs.

https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/locationsmart/ is an example of one provider's public demo (requiring only a phone number) being used to provide non-consensual location data.

From there, you can zoom in to your applicable scale then start adding features (https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_... or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFgP7msjP4) like points and then polylines/etc. for boundaries/shapes. There are lots of rabbit holes to go down, but if you stay in 2D mode and just look up things as you go, it isn't as bad as trying to learn _everything_ from the get go.

@OP, if there were in fact high traffic pages that got renamed, do a CSV/Excel export in GA/GSC/sitemap/etc., and map the old URLs to their new and implement 301's and wait and see if traffic starts to return.

Your rankings tanking on/around 10/19's update looks like a strong correlation. Your GSC with congruent drops in impressions and clicks doesn't immediately look like KWs you were top 3 for suddenly dropping further down the page-- else impressions would be similar but AP/CTR would just be tanking.

If you're using GA and your traffic doesn't have tons of seasonality, look at the landing page report month over month and see which pages have had the largest drop (can also do this in GSC). Then check in GSC and see what those pages' APs have done over the same period.

What types of links is GSC showing? Google says they don't count bad links, but if they make up a large proportion of your site's backlinks, SpamBrain (their spam AI-- publicly announced more frequently) may bucket your site that way.

SEMrush, ahrefs, Majestic, Moz OSE are all decent for checking who is linking (and maybe disavowing), but LinkResearchTools is probably going to focus more on identifying suspicious backlinks, if that is in fact what is impacting your site.

How unique is the content on each page? What do the crawled and not indexed vs discovered not crawled ratios look like relative to indexed pages? What does linking to the detail pages look like (category pages, similar items)? How much authority do category pages have in terms of backlinks? Page speed issues-- in GSC, can you manage average download time <100ms (makes a huge difference)?

Noindexing may help-- if you just initially handle that based on page content uniqueness and/or presumed MSV potential for the page. Otherwise, based on your language, can you request a quota increase from the 200/day notifications for the Indexing API?

If you like reading about the topic, maybe head to BHW forums (very poor SNR, though) and read about what some of the more unscrupulous people are doing to index MM+ pages/mo and extract some of the less-risky strategies (e.g. don't abuse the news/job posting APIs to get spam content indexed).

As additional commentary, the last 2-3 months have been chaos in terms of algo updates. There was essentially a 30 day period where Googlebot all but disappeared for most sites, then the two HCUs and other random updates tossed in for good measure, stacked with desktop infinite scroll and the switch to mobile first indexing. I can't remember as many changes happening in a single quarter in over 15 years of being SEO or SEO adjacent.

Going into an agency and saying "handle my marketing" will mean they will change goalposts (social this month, seo next, ppc after that-- typically focusing on billing you as much as possible while delivering bare minimum results) as necessary and can lead to wasted time/money vs. you handling the critical one off things like title/h1s matching terms with search volume/intent then having ongoing items like content/backlinks handled by a 3rd party.

There are other sources regarding Brady lists like https://giglio-bradylist.com/ and http://bradycops.org/, but they are obviously not 100% complete.

Cincinnati is close and has even more amenities like Jungle Jim's (2x giant grocery stores, 100% go here), CAM, theme parks, Union Terminal and niche museums (Sign Museum, VOA, Air Force Museum in Dayton), various pinball arcades, and places like Microcenter.

SEMRush has a free version where you get ~10 queries per day, so you can explore search volume for terms like "test automation software" and drill down from there. It won't 100% match GKP, but will be similar enough in magnitude.

If you're comfortable using APIs, https://dataforseo.com/ is going to be the cheapest/easiest route. I've used it for past projects, and it is basically like $0.10 (don't quote me, but around there) to fetch monthly search volume for <700 terms per batch. I think they can also provide search suggestions, estimated CPCs/competition indexes and other metrics as provided by Google.

Google Trends is easy/simple, but only gives an index score-- not actual query volume. Lots of marketing people use this for ideation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MiSsKqbPIMU