Battling with impressive Sailwave, a couple of questions. If there is
an affirmative answer to 1., please disregard the rest!
1. With trial/error and the help function I seem to be getting
somewhere. Is there an expanded help/ manual available?
2. We have just started a totally new series for disparate boats and
hope to generate handicaps for the future. The BCR value seems to do
this or something similar- but how does it operate? Put another way-
can Sailwave calculate ratings?
Kees
1) If you've looked at http://www.sailwave.com/index.php?page=help and joined the user group, that's it really. The spirit of the thing is to have a bit of an experiment, then when you get really stuck pose your problem to the user group.
2) BCR calculates the rating a boat would have needed to come equal first with the boat that actually won on the initial handicaps (the winners rating is not changed when you 'F6, view results cell as BCR'). Be aware that environmental factors (wind, wave) can greatly affect the BCR, and you'll need a lot of data to get something sensible (you'll never get anything equitable to all competitors) - good luck!
Mike Croker
Lancing SC
Kees Bakker wrote:
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Dear all,
Battling with impressive Sailwave, a couple of questions. If there is an affirmative answer to 1., please disregard the rest!
1. With trial/error and the help function I seem to be getting somewhere. Is there an expanded help/ manual available?
2. We have just started a totally new series for disparate boats and hope to generate handicaps for the future. The BCR value seems to do this or something similar- but how does it operate? Put another way- can Sailwave calculate ratings?
There is the beginnings of a PH system in the latest verions - see the Tools
menu item that assigns race ratings. have a look at that and consider what
extensions would be needed to the expresiiion to meet your requirements.
Battling with impressive Sailwave, a couple of questions. If there is
an affirmative answer to 1., please disregard the rest!
1. With trial/error and the help function I seem to be getting
somewhere. Is there an expanded help/ manual available?
2. We have just started a totally new series for disparate boats and
hope to generate handicaps for the future. The BCR value seems to do
this or something similar- but how does it operate? Put another way-
can Sailwave calculate ratings?