All races of each class and day, are scored over the year, and each class has 4 competitions. i.e. Wednesday points, Wednesday handicap, Sunday points, Sunday handicap, etc. In all club racing Points series, skipper’s best 50% of all races scheduled will be counted. Absence on a race day scores maximum points.

Handicap scores are caculated using the Guildford MYC "predicted performance" system.They are a running calculation using results of the last 12mths sailing in all club series races.A skipper must have sailed at least three races in the last 12 months and then an average handicap score is calculated after cancelling the best and worst race scores. If a skipper has sailed less than 3 times, the maximum (100%) handicap will be used at the end of the season to calculate handicap improvement. All a skipper's race scores are used to calculate the handicap score

Our Points scores used to be 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 in 2007 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, the second placed skipper score 2,and so on. Skippers not present get a score of 20 points(we reckon there will never be more than 20 skippers. 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 is now used.

Our Handicap scores continue to use the Guildford Handicap ( Predicted Performance) System.

A Brief explanation of this system:-

Example: The event consists of 8 races, 2 discards, with 12 boats sailing.

Mr. Average scores 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.

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 %

Mr.Average's 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.

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. For the handicap results all races sailed are counted.

The following RESULTS TABLES show a skipper's sailng record over the last 12mths of club racing.