Monday Results (race 3) (distance 3.0)
# Boat Rat Fin Time Elapsed Corr Pts New
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1 511 Oui R One 205 19 44 05 49 05 38 50 1.0 175
2 619 No Resistance 205 19 44 25 49 25 39 10 2.0 176
3 56 Bulldog 178 19 43 13 48 13 39 19 3.0 150
4 5485 East of Midnight 187 19 44 35 49 35 40 14 4.0 162
5 14031 White Rockett 192 19 46 09 51 09 41 33 5.0 171
6 CAN50 Ceilidh 199 19 55 30 01 00 30 50 33 6.0 208
7 433 Entropy 220 19 57 01 01 02 01 51 01 7.0 231
8 1454 Cheers 233 19 57 44 01 02 44 51 05 8.0 244
9 207 Shamar 217? 19 57 27 01 02 27 51 36 9.0 230
10 1826 Whitefin 233 19 59 07 01 04 07 52 28 10.0 248
11 21245 Rubaiyat 220 20 00 07 01 05 07 54 07 11.0 241
12 H33 Winds of Chance 190 20 08 07 01 13 07 01 03 37 12.0 243
392 Canadian Maid DNF 14.0 247
Results subject to change once unknown boats identify their sail number and ECPHRF JOG rating.
I've come across an unexpected hiccup in calculating the rolling handicaps. The
difficulty lies in the aggregate behaviour of the entire fleet. I had
incorporated a factor to minimize the difference between the seed ECPHRF
handicap and the calulated rolling handicap --- within the fleet this difference
is irrelevant as it applies across the entire fleet --- however, newly
introduced boats to the fleet will be effected if the entire fleet's handicap
drifts one way or the other. I had initially envisioned automatically including
the the fleet average into everyone's individual handicap, and indeed this is
how these numbers were calculated. The snag is, after a number of
hoursdays of digging, I still haven't positively
identified and assigned handicaps to somethree of the
boats that raced and the fleet average I calculate doesn't take these boats into
account. As I discover these mystery boat's ECPHRF handicaps no other boat's
computed handicap relative to the fleet will change but the absolute
numbers will.
This isn't a very nice state of affairs, where the computed rolling average handicap for most boats is kept hostage by the few boats that haven't made themselves fully known the the RC. Now this may be a one off at the start of the season --- but maybe not. I am considering a slight change in how I report handicaps. Preregistered boats would get a rolling average handicap posted immediately after racing which would completely ignore the average fleet performance; Newly entered boats would get their ECPHRF seed rating plus a fleet offset calculated just before the race, rather than when results are posted. This would give me a full week to incorporate stragglers into the fleet. Newly entered boats wouldn't know what there handicap is relative to everyone else until all the previous week's stragglers had been accounted for, but this is still better that holding up everyone else's results.
Tell me your thoughts on the issue.
Matt