Odd results when publishing

Imported from Yahoo
1

When I score a race in our club's series the scored points are
accurate, but when I publish the results (whether just the one race,
the whole series, or with the summary) I get some odd results in
the 'position' column. Using the low-point avg., the points publish
as 1,2,*,3,4,5,6,7 but the position column publishes
1,3,4,5,7,9,10,13.

First, how is the position column calculated? -- if I know what's
happening maybe I can find the/a correction;

Second, the View/Columns... menu doesn't give Position as an option
to deselect -- could that be added? or is there a reason I wouldn't
want to?

I put the * in the points sequence above because of the way our club
scores: low-point average, with a 60% participation requirement,
races served as RC do not count against participation. So, in the
sequence above, the sailor listed as position 4 was scored RC for
that race (by the way, Publish prints a Point position in each race
for the RC equal to the total series average for that sailor).

Without a nifty .html editor, I'm having to edit the source for
published results using Notepad in order to delete the Position code
for each competitor in every race.

2

Hi,

The position column is a reporting issue rather then a scoring issue. Given
any list of points (assume low point) - e.g. for a race or series summary,
Sailwave sequentially assigns positions unless two or more successive values
are the same in which case it shows them as ties.

e.g. the points 1, 1.5, 1.5, 3, 40, 45.6 would have positions 1, 2, 2, 4, 5,
6.

I'm not sure I follow you WRT *. If you send me the series I'll have a look
if you point me at the race in question.

The next Sailwave version has much more flexibility WRT columns - you can
change the column order and hide/show any of them including the pos & race
columns. Due out soon but it's been a huge bit of dev as it turns out - but
has paved the way for a lot of possibilities in the future. I'm trying to
move to WYSIWUG rather then the template/style approach which required
HTML/CSS knowledge. it's something that'll I gradually creep up on.

Regards,
Colin
www.sailwave.com

···

-----Original Message-----
From: tasc_rc [mailto:tasc_rc@yahoo.com]
Sent: 06 November 2003 19:46
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Odd results when publishing

When I score a race in our club's series the scored points are
accurate, but when I publish the results (whether just the one race,
the whole series, or with the summary) I get some odd results in
the 'position' column. Using the low-point avg., the points publish
as 1,2,*,3,4,5,6,7 but the position column publishes
1,3,4,5,7,9,10,13.

First, how is the position column calculated? -- if I know what's
happening maybe I can find the/a correction;

Second, the View/Columns... menu doesn't give Position as an option
to deselect -- could that be added? or is there a reason I wouldn't
want to?

I put the * in the points sequence above because of the way our club
scores: low-point average, with a 60% participation requirement,
races served as RC do not count against participation. So, in the
sequence above, the sailor listed as position 4 was scored RC for
that race (by the way, Publish prints a Point position in each race
for the RC equal to the total series average for that sailor).

Without a nifty .html editor, I'm having to edit the source for
published results using Notepad in order to delete the Position code
for each competitor in every race.

-!- Tired of Hotmail? Try Fastmail -!- http://www.fastmail.fm/
-!- Sick of Spam? Get Spam Pal <free!> -!-
http://www.spampal.org/
http://www.sailwave.com/

Convert to daily digest of emails send blank email to:
sailwave-digest@yahoogroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
sailwave-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

---
Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.536 / Virus Database: 331 - Release Date: 03/11/2003

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.536 / Virus Database: 331 - Release Date: 03/11/2003

3

Hi,

The position column is a reporting issue rather then a scoring

issue. . . .

I'll send you the file -- the position reporting doesn't seem to be
calculating as you describe, or at least as I understand what you
describe :slight_smile: e.g. in the first race of our series eight boats were
present; one served as RC, leaving 7 to be scored. There were no
ties. Publishing the first race yields the postitions
1,3,4,5,7,9,10,13 (as to why there are 8 positions for 7 racing
boats, see note on * below)

I'm not sure I follow you WRT *. If you send me the series I'll

have a look if you point me at the race in question.

We score low-point avg with 60% min. participation over series. We
try to give credit for serving as RC by reducing the denominator in
the participation percentage for each race for which a competitor
serves as RC. Thus, if the series were 10 races, a sailor would need
to compete in 6 to qualify for series honors -- but if that sailor
competed in 5 races and served as RC in another two races, then the
sailor would still qualify with a percentage based on 5/8 rather than
5/10.

In the published results, the RC shows up as a competitor,
scored "RC", so publishing the first race results (reporting ordered
by position) yielded positions 1,3,4,5,7,9,10,13 which were scored
points 1,2,*2.86,3,4,5,6,7 respectively. The value of 2.86
corresponds to the whole series average of the sailor who served as
RC for that race.

The next Sailwave version has much more flexibility WRT columns -

you can . . . .

Might one still say 'brill'? :slight_smile: How about: 'good on ya mate'
Or: 'you da man'

Thank you Colin -- Jeff, TASC RC

···

--- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, "Colin Jenkins" <colin@s...> wrote: