Hi All,
At Toronto Windsurfing Club our summer series begins the first week
of May and ends the last week of September. With three to four races
a week we usually complete the season with 55+ races total (depending
on wind and weather conditions). Like most sailing clubs, we are a
volunteer organisation, so we assign an RDG to the racers who agree
to run the committee boat from week to week. Currently I've been
using the 'RDGa' in Sailwave (which averages ALL the sailed races) to
calculate the scores for these competitors. However, since many
racers understandably have other committments throughout the season
and don't necessarily make it to every race, they receive a 'DNC' for
those races. We've been debating lately as to whether it's more fair
to either leave the value of the RDG at the RDGa setting or to adjust
it so that the RDG value includes only the 'non-DNC' races (Sailwave
will do both). Obviously setting the RDG to the latter setting will
result in better scores for the racers in question.
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has had experience with
a similar lengthy series or has found them in a similar situation.
Thanks and Cheers,
Nick Cox
Nick,
Just a small point it is more usual to use the scoring OOD for this
need rather than RDG which is something defined in the RRS (Racing
Rules of Sailing). RDG is usually the result of a protest hearing.
I do the results for a club where the number of races in the series is
between 25 & 27 and we use OOD set to average of all non-DNC races
and our racers thing that fair. I know of other clubs that set the
points to a fixed value, typically 3 to 5. Personally I think getting
the average of the points you score is more fair.
For a long series you may want to allow a higher number of discards,
for one series we set the discard profile to s/3, i.e one discard for
every three races sailed.
Kind regard,
Huw
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Thank you Huw, for your advice. I was looking for the definition of OOD
in the Racing Rules of Sailing on the ISAF website and was unable to
find it. Which Appendix is it in?
Cheers,
Nick Cox
OOD is not a standard scoring code. If it is what I think it is, it
stands for Officer Of the Day, or Officer On Duty. Basically, it is
used when a racer needs to do Race Committee Duty and therefore can't
race. They usually are awarded average points for the race in
exchange for their duty.
Hope this helps.
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sailwave@...> wrote:
Thank you Huw, for your advice. I was looking for the definition of
OOD
in the Racing Rules of Sailing on the ISAF website and was unable
to
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find it. Which Appendix is it in?
Cheers,
Nick Cox