Hi Huw,
Yes that is the german yardstick, there are some differences for Berlin and Bodensee,but for the rest of germany the dsv yardstick is standard and I use the US which seems to work well here.
Regards
Peter Campbell
Berlin
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----- Original Message ----
From: Huw Pearce huw.pearce@bcs.org.uk
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 27 April, 2008 9:53:04 AM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Yardstick Races and differents Boats with Bonus Points System! how to work?
Hi Phil,
Thanks for your comments. My view on calculation of corrected time is that as the race team can in the vast majority of cases only record the finish time to the nearest second, the corrected time should be to the nearest second. But this has already been discussed in this forum in earlier posts 
You do not need to enter a custom formula, just choose one of US or VYC as they are based on the formula you have suggested for the custom formula box. Yes the RYA is based on 1000, but US & VYC are based on 100 the old RYA standard. What is needed is to create a rating file of the ratings for a particular rating scheme; I have not seen any rating files for the German or Dutch schemes you mentioned but they will be quite easy to create. I think I have found the information on the 2008 German ratings but as my German is non-existent could some one more fluent in German confirm if the information at this link is what I think it is http://www.dsv. org/uploads/ media/5406. PDF
Kind regards,
Huw
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From: sailwave@yahoogroup s.com [mailto:sailwave@ yahoogroups. com]On Behalf Of Philippe De Troy
Sent: 26 April 2008 22:12
To: sailwave@yahoogroup s.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Yardstick Races and differents Boats with Bonus Points System! how to work?
Huw,
Just two comments.
- Bonus points existed long time before ISAF RRS recognised it was normal to have ties in a race.
On handicap, I will not come back to the subject, but I think it’s better to round corrected times to teh nearest second, son ties are always possible, including between boats having the same handicap (PN > 1000) and finishing one second from each other.
If you are rounding to 1 decimal position, ties between an even number of boats are truncated (the average of 5.7 and 8.0 is 6.85- German Yardstickzahlen (and Dutch SW-cijfers) are similar to PY, except that the base is 100 instead of 1000. I should NOT recommend to multiply these factors by 10, according on the principle “he software must comply with the rules”, and not “the rules shall comply with the software”. So define the system as custom and enter the formula as c=e*100/r
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: Huw Pearce
To: sailwave@yahoogroup s.com
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Yardstick Races and differents Boats with Bonus Points System! how to work?
Michael,
Just re-read your message and realised I have only answered part of it
To setup Sailwave for handicap racing you need to
click the Scoring Systems button the Toolbar
select the Rating System tab and select the rating system that you will be using - if you use the RYA Portsmouth you will need to create a rating file containing the ratings used in Germany. The creation of a rating file is documented in the help system.
click OK
Kind regards,
Huw
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From: sailwave@yahoogroup s.com [mailto:sailwave@ yahoogroups. com]On Behalf Of pabst_michael
Sent: 26 April 2008 12:18
To: sailwave@yahoogroup s.com
Subject: [sailwave] Yardstick Races and differents Boats with Bonus Points System! how to work?
HI,
firstly great prgramm!We are a Sail Club with differents Boatd ( Laser/470er/ Finn Dinghy/
Corsar/…)
I will do this Programm for our Races with this Boats.
How can I creat a Race for it?
Bonus Points System ist.
place Ponits
1 0
2 3
3 5,7
4 8
5 10
I think you will know that…
Who can help me…?best wishes Michael from germany
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