Can I score race committee as 1st or another user defined value in a race series

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I recently accepted the responsibiility of serving as Race Chair for our Yacht Club.

I've setup and operated racing programs in the past using Portsmouth Yardstick ratings based on wind speed ranges and Portsmouth Yardstick formulas. I've always worked with hand calculations or self made spreadsheets when doing this.

We have one member who's used Sailwave to score our clubs single race events, club series races and invitational regattas. I've helped him enter race results information and asked him a number of questions, and he's asked me to download the Sailwave software and learn how to use he program.

I'm new to Sailwave, just downloaded it and am studying it.

I've spoken to a few people who've used Sailwave to score individual races, club series races and regattas. None have been able to confirm whether it's possible to score persons serving as race committee for one or more races as 1st place for the these races. In my experience this scoring rule has benefited the Racing Program by encouraging more participants to volunteer to serve as Race Committee without drastically influencing the club series results. Of course no one is allowed to run more than one days worth of club races, which prevents someone from running two or three days events and dominating the series because of this scoring rule.

I've found the RDGa and RDGb scoring codes that score them respectively as an average of all their previous races or as an average of all their races in the series, which may include future races.

I've also found the RDG scoring code which may serve my purposes, if I can assign a 1st place finish when I use it.

The RDG scoring code appears to be intended to handle cases where a boat wins a protest in a given race and is awarded a finish position by the Protest Committee. The use of this code has been extremely rare in my 30 years of racing experience. I'm not sure how this assignment effects the other boats finish positions, which are calculated based on corrected times. It's possible for more than one boat in a given race to have a RDG scoring code so I'd like to figure out where and how the finish position is assigned. In this case, the boat in question is obviously a race participant so it effects the scoring of boats that are scored as DNC, DNF etc.

In the case of arbitrarily awarding the boat serving as race committee in a days racing events of a club series of racing events, I haven't treated the race committee as an entrant in race when scoring DNC, DNF etc for a given race, but if that's the way the Sailwave program treats the case, we could define it in our sailing instructions.

Would someone please explain how the RDG, RDGa & RDGb scoring codes apply and how to use them.

Thanks in advance for any help or insight anyone may provide.

I plan to obtain copies of old club Sailwave race files and for study. This will likely take awhile, so I'm looking for help to speed me up my learning curve.

Cheers,
Sailor Bob

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I've spoken to a few people who've used Sailwave to score individual races, club series races and regattas. None have been able to confirm whether it's possible to score persons serving as race committee for one or more races as 1st place for the these races. In my experience this scoring rule has benefited the Racing Program by encouraging more participants to volunteer to serve as Race Committee without drastically influencing the club series results. Of course no one is allowed to run more than one days worth of club races, which prevents someone from running two or three days events and dominating the series because of this scoring rule.

Yes this is possible. The code used is OOD (Officer Of the Day).
The default setting is to allocate average of all (same as RDGa) - but you can change that.

Open your series and go to Scoring System. Click the scoring system (probably Appendix A ius the only one listed) Click Edit. Now go to the codes tab. Click OOD and click edit. Now pick an appropriate option - assuming you are using low points scoring I'd pick "Score a fixed number of points N" and in the Value box at the top set the value as 1.

The RDG scoring code appears to be intended to handle cases where a boat wins a protest in a given race and is awarded a finish position by the Protest Committee. The use of this code has been extremely rare in my 30 years of racing experience. I'm not sure how this assignment effects the other boats finish positions, which are calculated based on corrected times. It's possible for more than one boat in a given race to have a RDG scoring code so I'd like to figure out where and how the finish position is assigned. In this case, the boat in question is obviously a race participant so it effects the scoring of boats that are scored as DNC, DNF etc.

On the second tab of the OOD you can state if the code implies the boat started the race which may affect DNC / DNF. Although DNF is by default the same as DNC now.

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Use
the code OOD (or create a new code and call it anything you want) which I
believe stands for officer of the day. Then set its value (in setup
scoring system) to set points by hand and set N to 1.

Will

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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 3:24 PM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Can I score race committee as 1st or another user
defined value in a race series

I recently accepted the responsibiility of
serving as Race Chair for our Yacht Club.

I’ve setup and operated racing programs in the past using Portsmouth Yardstick
ratings based on wind speed ranges and Portsmouth Yardstick formulas. I’ve
always worked with hand calculations or self made spreadsheets when doing this.

We have one member who’s used Sailwave to score our clubs single race events,
club series races and invitational regattas. I’ve helped him enter race results
information and asked him a number of questions, and he’s asked me to download
the Sailwave software and learn how to use he program.

I’m new to Sailwave, just downloaded it and am studying it.

I’ve spoken to a few people who’ve used Sailwave to score individual races,
club series races and regattas. None have been able to confirm whether it’s
possible to score persons serving as race committee for one or more races as
1st place for the these races. In my experience this scoring rule has benefited
the Racing Program by encouraging more participants to volunteer to serve as
Race Committee without drastically influencing the club series results. Of
course no one is allowed to run more than one days worth of club races, which
prevents someone from running two or three days events and dominating the
series because of this scoring rule.

I’ve found the RDGa and RDGb scoring codes that score them respectively as an
average of all their previous races or as an average of all their races in the
series, which may include future races.

I’ve also found the RDG scoring code which may serve my purposes, if I can
assign a 1st place finish when I use it.

The RDG scoring code appears to be intended to handle cases where a boat wins a
protest in a given race and is awarded a finish position by the Protest
Committee. The use of this code has been extremely rare in my 30 years of
racing experience. I’m not sure how this assignment effects the other boats
finish positions, which are calculated based on corrected times. It’s possible
for more than one boat in a given race to have a RDG scoring code so I’d like
to figure out where and how the finish position is assigned. In this case, the
boat in question is obviously a race participant so it effects the scoring of
boats that are scored as DNC, DNF etc.

In the case of arbitrarily awarding the boat serving as race committee in a
days racing events of a club series of racing events, I haven’t treated the
race committee as an entrant in race when scoring DNC, DNF etc for a given
race, but if that’s the way the Sailwave program treats the case, we could
define it in our sailing instructions.

Would someone please explain how the RDG, RDGa & RDGb scoring codes apply
and how to use them.

Thanks in advance for any help or insight anyone may provide.

I plan to obtain copies of old club Sailwave race files and for study. This
will likely take awhile, so I’m looking for help to speed me up my learning
curve.

Cheers,
Sailor Bob