RDGa and Prize Table formatting

Hi all!

Just a couple of little niggles that bit me in our last Opti, ILCA, C420 event.

RDGa:
We had a competitor who was shown to be in 9th place, but she got pushed to 10th because of us erroniously inserting someone in 4th place before her. As the inserted competitor did consistently bad in his other 8 races, the Jury decided to give him average points (RDGa) as we didn’t have any other fiishing position for him.

Here’s where I got bit: when I rescored, the finish numbers for all the other competitors didn’t change - the the counts for that race was 1,2,3,RDGa,5,6,7,8,9,10. So, the 10th position finisher didn’t move up. Ultimately I ended up putting that race into Move Recorded Places and moving the RDGa competitor to the end.

Seems like it should’ve changed the positions on that race to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (and then much farther down) RDGa?

Prize Table Formatting:
I was trying to apply some CSS to the prize table to alternate colors or rows to make them more readable. The prize table includes a lot of categories (Overall, Male, Female, Category A, etc) and when the prize table is printed, they are all listed in a table together.

Unfortunately, the results wizard code seems to treat each prize category as a separate thing, so when it goes to HTML is looks something like:

Category 1 - 1st - class=“odd prizerow”
Category 1 - 2nd - class=“even prizerow”
Category 1 - 3rd - class="odd prizerow’
Category 2 - 1st - class=“odd prizerow”
Category 2 - 2nd - class="even prizerow’
Category 2 - 3rd - class="odd prizerow’
Category 3 - 1st - class="odd prizerow’
… and so on
So with three trophies and several prize categories, there would be two "odd prizerow"s together, making the prize table look funny if formated for alternating line colors in that table.

Here’s an example. I took off the alternate row colors on the prize table, but if you examine the page you can see what I mean about the CSS classes being put together.

Hi Andy,

There is a not well known quirk in Sailwave regarding RDGa!

Sailwave does not work correctly when the competitor given RDGa has no recorded position for the race in question. What you did was the way to resolve. I usually give a recorded position of 999!

I will make a note to add a warning in the Sailwave User Guide when I next update it.

I can’t comment on the prize table issue.

Kind regards,
Huw

Thanks Huw. I know I’ve used RDGa in the past, I’m not sure why I’m just seeing this now. I think the issue in this case was that the competitor was formerly 4th. It appears that their place is retained. I’ll have to remember your 9999 trick.

Hi Andy,

I posted on this forum about this issue quite a while back (August 2015) - Odd Scoring Situation and a Resolution

All best for forthcoming season.

PS - the results at the link you posted look good.

PS - you were lucky, the version of Sailwave is not compatible with 2025-2028 RRS 44.3(c)
Kind regards,
Huw

Oops! Time to upgrade!

Hi Andy,

RDGa applies the RRS A6.2

A6.2 If the protest committee decides to give redress by adjusting a boat’s score, the scores of other boats shall not be changed unless the committee decides otherwise

So I think it works correctly.

As for the prize table, I could look at doing some work on that if you like but I personally always use the standalone SWPrize list program that is included with the Sailwave install as its more flexible and easier to set up and you can use the same prize rules for repetitive events

Regards

Jon

Many thanks Jon. I think our race committee just had a teachable moment!