Colin, you got it!
Only difference is that it’s only “Qualification Races”, no “finals”.
As I see it we the following:
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Groups racing the whole series, and no reallocation to flights.
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Groups racing, and reallocation into new groups after N races , and then maybe after N + M, and so on.
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Groups racing and reallocation into new groups after N races , and then maybe after N + M, and so on, until you reallocate into final flights. These finale flights do not compete with other final flights, only among themselves!
Thats it! Thats all you can say aboat Flights racing (I think).
If thats true, we have generalised the whole Flight thing, and the Competitor field “Flight” can be removed. If anyone must have a field, or button, named Flight: Give em one!
Regards,
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From:
Colin Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Flights
Hi Martin,
So in effect the whole thing is an App LE Add C series, each weekends being N races where the competitors have the same flight. Flights rotate after the last race of each weekend.
Colin
-----Original Message-----
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Martin Bølgen
Sent: 13 September 2005 14:11
To:
sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Flights
Hi, Colin.
>> I do have Optimists regattas, consisting of 4 >> weekend races. For one weekend they are devided >> into 4 flights, and the flights are racing against >> each other in a round robin. Based on this rank, >> they are put into new flights for the next weekend >> and do the same. And so on for all 4 weekends. I'll >> then have to merge all 4 weekends to get an overall >
standing.
The only way of getting all flights combinations merged
into SW, is to use Assign Flight Races. Actually the
same as App.LE without add.C (Finals).> I'll need more detail (and examples and SOs) to understand the issue > exactly, if you used a start rotatiion method then that should still work in
the merged series.
I sent you alot of examples before the summer, but it might have been lossed in the App.LE Add.C story...
Actually I tought the "App.LE way" of doing things could solve my issue too. That's why I wanted Flights coloumn too be renamed. To me, flights racing is flights racing. If there are different formats, OK but still flights racing.
It is just confusing doing the same thing two ways...
The only differet thing from the Topper flights thing, is that after a number of races, flights memberships changes....
So, look at it this way:
You have 4 independent events (weekends). They are scored separately as flights in round robin starts.
The second weekend race is also a independent event, only the flights seeding are based on the stand from the first event.
As the "independent" events progess you want to merge them, so that all of them forms a LONG series together.
The third "independent" events seeding, are based on the overall standing from the combined (merged) two first events.
You gets the last independent events seeding, when you merge the first three, score it and take the overall standing.
At the end, you merge all four "independent" events. When you then score, you'll get a overall winner of the 4 weekend races!
(It was this way it started this spring...)
regards,
Martin