Hi All:
I'm wondering if the notion of "Standard Corrected Time" as a proxy
for Estimated Speed Potential Number (ESPN) has ever been developed
within Saliwave? I reacall that some time ago Colin was toying with
the possibility of using BCR as the underpinning, and that the
function was gong to be generic enabling users to set their own
valuses.
Is this item still alive??
Regards:
Mike
Lunenburg Yacht Club
Nova Scotia, Canada
ve@yahoogroups.com, "Colin Jenkins" <colin@...> wrote:
Hi David (et al),
re: BCR etc.
My plan is to allow the user to specify how a "Standard Corrected
Time" is
calculated (based on an option set from the recent emails) and
then use that
in the BCR calculation which itself will be more flexible. *I
think* that
facilitates you and ESPN. SCT will also be available in the PH
expressions.
I think that then allows RYA PY stuff to be done too (Huw).
You'll be able
to do this on a per scoring system basis, so different fleets can
be done in
different ways.
Regards,
Colin
www.sailwave.com
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com]On
Behalf Of davie_th
Sent: 28 August 2006 12:33
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] PHS - Handicaping
Colin - Thanks for developing this great product.
It meets our clubs needs for standard YV yarstick races, but I'm
struggling to setup Personal Handicaps for our mixed fleet. In
Regatta's that I've tried to score using Personal Handicaps, the
handicaps seem to 'creep' higher over the regatta - I assume this
is
due to the BCR being based on the boat that was first on correct
time,
so handicaps can only increase.
The manual system we use calculates the Back Calculated Handicap on
the Boat that finished 45% down the fleet on corrected time. This
allows Handicaps to move in either direction & seems to balance
them.
We also set limits on the %change allowed for BCHs to avoid overly
large swings. This % may be higher during the initial couple of
races
to set the level of the field, and will then be fixed at 5% max
swing.
Can this be configured in the current SailWave, or is it possibly
planned for subsequent releases ?
thanks,
David
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