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-------Original Message-------
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 01:43:26 PM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Re: Races to Qualify
Hi Mark,
I’ll see what I can do. I think you can do it now by marking the race as ‘discard me first’ and increasing the number of discards by one in all situations; i.e. so there is always at least one discard.
Regards,
Colin
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Townsend [mailto:s_mark_townsend@hotmail.com]
Sent: 30 April 2003 16:31
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com; sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Re: Races to Qualify
If you are going to add the code to support a qualification profile it would also be nice to have the ability to show practice races in the results. This would require that the race be discarded under all circumstances and not count in the final results. If it doesn’t fit I’ll keep scoring it as a separate regatta…
-------Original Message-------
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 06:08:48 AM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: Races to Qualify
`Hi Keith,
The more I get into this scoring business the more it becomes
apparent that the ability to handle ‘Races to Qualify’ is fundamental
to any scoring system.<
I do plan to add a qualification profile to go with the discard
profile, but because it can be mathematically (in all but
pathological contexts) be solved by setting DNC=SomeLargeNumber
(without any loss of information), something else always seems to get
in the way… I’ll do it by the release version of 1.47.
I must admit that I personally see it as an unnecessary complication
and perhaps this has, but should not have, had an influence on it
getting done… ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](/images/emoji/apple/slight_smile.png?v=9)
If you score them in it affects the points of all those who did
qualify.<
The qualification scheme as discussed on the SUG previously will not
unilaterally ignore a competitor for the whole of a series, and
rescore it; rather, just mark a boat DNQ in the final points/pos
columns or something like that, if they didn’t do enough races based
on the number of races sailed. That boat will have a result in the
races in which she sailed…
Is your spec different to that…?
Regards,
Colin
— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, “Keith Lomax” <keithlomax@d…>
wrote:
Hi Colin
The more I get into this scoring business the more it becomes
apparent that the ability to handle ‘Races to Qualify’ is fundamental
to any scoring system. Whilst you can edit out those who did not
qualify either in Sailwave or when manipulating after publishing, you
lose the fact that the guys turned up on the day and raced and
perhaps even returned a good score, so you don’t get the true story
of what happened through the series, which may be over several weeks
or months. If you score them in it affects the points of all those
who did qualify. You can have the situation where those who didn’t
qualify scored better than those who did, then you have to manipulate
points/positions manually, which defeats the object of having scoring
software in the first place.
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