Hi David,
As I understand it, the points you have raised are the whole reason
of CHIPS existance. It awards higher points in larger fleets and
lower points in smaller fleets. That much has been very clear from
its inception, and has been explained on a number of occasions within
Chipstead Sailing Club - it is also explained fully in the
documentation freely available on the club's website.
Contrary to your points regarding the systems fallibility when used
in a large fleet - the largest fleet in Chipstead Sailin Club, the
Laser Class (30 qualifiers in the points racing alone in 2008), has
consistantly chosen to retain the CHIPS scoring system as Laser class
members feel it is far superior to regular low point scoring in large
fleet series points production.
As with all available alternative scoring systems, CHIPS will have
fans, and people less enthuusiatic about it - hence why at our
sailing club, members are given the opportunity to vote during the
Class AGM's on such matters - maybe your concerns should be raised
within your class agm where there is a forum to receive it formally?
As the Sailing Secretary for Chipstead Sailing Club, and having been
a Fleet Captain during the use of CHIPS at Chipstead SC, I am fully
aware of its implications on series points. I welcome your input,
but I feel the points you have raised hold no new information. Your
concerns are answered fully on the clubs website in the product
literature, and as such I suggest you discuss the matter at your next
Class AGM if you still feel that strongly about it.
Contrary to your comments regarding membership at our Club - this
actually increased in 2008 - unlike alot of club in the south east -
and we hope that it will continue to do so in 2009. Thanks for
asking!
Andrew Bowes
Laser 182222
Sailing Sec @ Chipstead Sailing Club
--- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, DAVID CHESWORTH
<david.chesworth@...> wrote:
this system like chips used at chipstead caues problerms.
You tell a kid who could not race 2 weekends but raced all others
that he can not beat another kid. cause the races he couldn't race
had loads of competitors. thats what high points scoring does.
At chipstead under low points scoring we had closes fleets causes
people can predict what result they need to beat  aniother boat and
didn't have to rely on numbers turning up.
How do you define skill by the number of boat sailing or by wether
you do well in a race of varying conditions.
high points scoring penalizes tsmall fleets and rewards large.
At most clubs fleets vary in size over a season. On some races at
chipstead the results of the winner to a series was decided in the
summer, but if it was scored by low points scoring it would have come
down to the last race making an exciting end to a season.
high points scoring is only ok if fleets stay roughly the same size
all season but theuy don't.
low points scoriong enourages people to sail that a fact and even
stated by the top rya instructors.
scince high points scoring was introduced at chipstead memebrs
sailing has dropped, which proves the failure of the system to get
people to sail which is what we want.
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