New to SailWave (evaluating). Can anyone point me towards guidance on setting up Progressive Handicaps properly for mixed fleets? We have mixed divisions with boats operating on AS Yardstick but want to apply a performance based progressive adjustment over the top that runs and is updated throughout the season.
Help appreciated.
Hi Ben,
Welcome to the Sailwave User Group forum.
If you want to dual score standard AS yardstick and a progressive adjustment based on an initial AS Yardstick, the functionality in Sailwave you will use is ‘Aliases’
Create your fleets / mixed divisions using standard AS Yardstick’s and set-up scoring system, i.e. default scoring, for AS Yardstick.
Then create aliases and rename the fleets / mixed divisions as appropriate then set-up alternative scoring system for each fleet / mixed division to a progressive adjustment system. There are 3 progressive adjustment systems available:
A fourth alternative is to create your own progressive adjustment Excel spreadsheet.
In the Sailwave User Guide there is a section on creating ‘Aliases’.
Note - using ‘Aliases’ means you only have to enter finish sheet data once as the data entered for each initial competitor is copied to each alias of the competitor.
When publish results from Sailwave with a progressive adjustment system, you can publish in the series results the rating used in each race; this is achieved using a Sailwave ‘Effect’.
I hope that is enough information to get you started.
Kind regards,
Huw
Thanks. I’m struggling to be honest. I’ve setup the competitors, alias’s and fleets but not sure how I would score the series as both A. Yardstick adjusted based on Ratings File. and B. Pointscore (PHS) progressive yardsticks. Do I score each Fleet seperately? Do I need an external tool? I read something about SWPH, do I need this?
Cheers.
Hi Ben,
I am sorry you are still struggling.
Yes you score each fleet separately. To score each fleet using a different rating system you need to set-up the rating system for each fleet. The default rating you want to use, say PY rating, is set on the ‘Rating’ tab of ‘Scoring system’.
To set the rating system for the Aliased fleet you need click the ‘Fleet’ tab in ‘Scoring system’ window, click ‘New’ button to create a new scoring over ride. Click ‘Edit’ button to configure scoring over ride. In the window that appears click the down arrow to the right of the box containing the words ‘Edit me’ and select the fleet you want a scoring override to apply to.
Now select the ‘Rating’ tab, uncheck the ‘Inherit’ box followed by selecting the rating system to be used for the selected fleet which will by default have the original rating system selected. Finally click the OK button and then save the Sailwave file.
I hope that helps but if not send me (huw at sailwave,com) your Sailwave file and an explanation of what you want to happen.
Kind regards,
Huw
