When they first Announced BB a couple of years back, I offered to bring people with years of results experience together and use Sailwave to collate and publish.
They insisted it could be done with a spreadsheet
Chaos followed.
Sounds like it was almost as bad again this year.
I too offered to help them out last year, but no replies. They seemed hopelessly optimistic and naive about the problems, and also made a huge rod for their own backs by attempting to use their own handicaps: hence why it was so chaotic with so many boats misidentified. This year I made damn sure I was a long way from anything to do with results.
My advice to anyone would be to have the club do the event and raise money if that’s what your members want to do, but not to bother with submitting results.
The stupid thing is that their whole handicap thing is an utter waste of time. They’d get far more reliable and just as representative results by ignoring handicaps completely, accepting each clubs own corrected times, and normalising each corrected time to a percentage of the median (or maybe the mode) value for each club’s finishing times.
Maybe, as Jon says, they’d get paid less…
Jim C