I am exploring using Sailwave for our sailing club in Australia. I have been trying to get a personal handicap system set up. Just one question.
In the “Scoring System” screen, down the bottom is the "Back calculated index % dial. I cannot get it to work. No matter what figure I enter into it the Back calculated handicap only uses the fastest boat as the standard boat. This resuls in a reduced handicap for all other competitors. I want the standard boat to be about 1/3 down fleet. The expression I am using in the Tools+ Assign Personal Handicap screen is: prevrac + (prevbcr - prevrac) / 4.
Hi Phillip
I think you need to tick 'Settings', 'User Interface', 'Race Weightings' to get the Auto Set Rating thingy to work.
However, and this is just a guess as I've never used it (prefer the golf handicap approach - set for the season, tweak if obviously wrong), I suspect that the % just weights the rating adjustment. That is, at 100%, the BCR is such that in the race in question, all competitors would have tied for first place (it's calculated to the performance of the original winner) whereas with, say, 50% only half of the rating correction is applied.
Suggest you set up a short test series and report back
Cheers
Mike
Lancing SC
I am exploring using Sailwave for our sailing club in Australia. I have been trying to get a personal handicap system set up. Just one question.
In the "Scoring System" screen, down the bottom is the "Back calculated index % dial. I cannot get it to work. No matter what figure I enter into it the Back calculated handicap only uses the fastest boat as the standard boat. This resuls in a reduced handicap for all other competitors. I want the standard boat to be about 1/3 down fleet. The expression I am using in the Tools+ Assign Personal Handicap screen is: prevrac + (prevbcr - prevrac) / 4.
Any advice appreciated.
New member.
