Our Points scores have previously been calculated over the season by adding the points gained for each days racing. Thus a skipper who won every race out of say 8 races sailed, would receive a days score of 6 (2 discards given). If the same skipper had sailed and won every race when 15 races had been sailed, he would have gained 12 points (3 discards). This system of scoring has been perceived as unfair since the score gained depends on the number of races completed and is not necessarily the same for all skippers over a seasons racing.
A new scoring system was proposed which avoids this problem. It is based on the PRACC system which awards a score for the day rather than for total races sailed. Thus the day winner gets a score of 1, and so on. Skippers not present get a score of 20 points. In practice studies made for our 2007 season's results showed that skipper scores using BOTH systems gave the overall result mostly the same on either system. However the new system is theorectically fairer and will be used for this and future seasons.
Our Handicap scores continue to use the Guildford Handicap ( Predicted Performance) System.
A Brief explanation of this system:-
Notes updated 22-12-06
.Example: The event consists of 8 races, 2 discards, with 12 boats sailing
in the event two x 5th, one x 6th, two x 7th, two x 8th, and a DNS (13). After discards Mr Average's event score on merit is 38.Mr. Average scores
.For the event the maximum is 13 x 6 =78, the minimum is 6
% = (Maximum - Score)/(Maximum - Minimum) x 100
% = (78 - 38)/(78-6) x100 = 55.5 %
had previously been given a handicap of 53%, so he scores plus 2.5 handicap points for this event. This is a measure of his improvement over his predicted performance.Mr.Average's
So the winner of one of our Handicapped Race series will be the skipper who makes the greatest improvement over the season, ie his handicap at the end of this season compared to end of last season. All races sailed are counted.
