Race tie with penalty

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Hi Bruce,

I've been on holiday and am working my way through a mountain of email...

In the 10 boat case I would expect the penalty to be points for 2nd place
(20% of 10 is 2.0 == 2) and in the 7 boat case I would expect the penalty to
be points for 1st place (20% = 1.4 == 1). (The RRS explicitly say rounding
to the nearest 0.5.)

So the final points would be 1,2,4(SCP),4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and
1,2,3(SCP),4,5,6,7.

The latest version of Sailwave (1.82) distributed to the Sailwave User Group
seems to do this.

www.sailwave/com/binary/sw182.exe

I don't know if 1.57 produces the same result or not - it's very old now and
due for replacement...

Regards,
Colin
www.sailwave.com

PS: I've always thought the RRS are a little ambigious about when to average
tied points... I seem to remember taking advice from RYA/USSA.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Huckaba [mailto:bhuckaba@ussailing.net]
Sent: 19 August 2005 04:02
To: colin@sailwave.com
Subject: Race tie with penalty

Colin,

I posted this on your board and haven't gotten a reply. You may
be busy or
don't want to post to the forum without a little research.
Anyway, here is
my question again.

  I have been asked about how to handle the following situation,
  assuming that race ties are handled as average points.

  two boats, A and B, tie for 2nd in the first race in a 10 boat
  fleet. B is also subject to a 20% penalty.

How does Sailwave handle this situation?

I seem to get different results depending on how many boats are in the
fleet. Sailwave gives me the answer I expect for 10 boats, but
does not for
7.

I would appreciate a reply, even is it isn't definitive.

Thanks, Bruce
US Sailing Scoring Review

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