When loading to PY Online a race with multiple starts, e.g. fast handicap and 5 minutes later slow handicap - all scored as ONE race - it appears in PY Online as two races.
This would be OK in some cases but often not, because PY Online excludes races all the same class and races with only 3 entries etc so if say on 3 boats enter the slow fleet they get ignored, or if 10 toppers enter the slow they get ignored.
Now Sailwave is a great bit of software -so no doubt this issue has come up before and they is a flag somewhere to set that says ‘publish all starts as one race to py online’? If not s it possible to have this feature added?
I do score as one group - but I think I’m wrong as PY Online does ( I think ) treat it as one race - but notifies errors per start - hence confusing me.
I agree that PYOnline is confusing.
As you say, PY Online treats each sailwave start as a separate “event”. You can ignore the red flags, it simply means they’re going to ignore this event (less than 3 boats in the slow fleet), rather than there being something wrong with your data. PY Onine calls them Errors which is misleading. I’m sure they’d argue that as the fleets started 5 mins apart it isn’t 100% fair to compare the times of the fast and slow boats, e.g. the wind could have dropped just as the slow boats were starting giving the fast boats an advantage.
At my club we have different courses for different fleets, so it would be wrong to automatically combine the starts. I frequently get the red flags, but I just ignore them.
