rose wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:47 pm
Do the points need to be compared to the ranking competition points? At some competitions I have seen the vets all being awarded the same points, but the results quite a difference?? Just a thought???
Yes, that was my mistake above.
Because any vet can enter any race, if you had 4 vets capable of scoring max points at div 2 and one who can normally get near top of div 3 all entered in a div 3 race with points distributed only between the vets, the div 3 vet would most likely only get 50 points for his/her trouble even if he/she actually gets a better time than all of the actual div 3 paddlers. It would potentially destroy the incentive for vets happy in the lower divisions to continue racing, and we don't want that. Better for all 5 to be tied on max points reflecting that they all could have won if they had been in division.
Similarly at div 1s we can often end up with several of us 10 or 20 seconds apart all scoring the same as the last div 1 paddler not to have a 50, that is where more points are probably deserved, but even so those paddlers would still all be on the same points as a result of their times, just that the points would be more if a multiplier was used. I think this is right, because we are not racing in division, but should get points based on where we would have finished in the division. If 5 vets all had times at a div 1 that were slower than all the div 1's, why should one of them get 1000 points, another 800, etc. etc.
This is basically the issue that C1 has in several divisions, on days where C1 is just quorate but no good paddlers turn up, someone gets max points that really shouldn't have, and on other days where a race is just quorate and only the best paddlers turn up, one of them gets minimum points even if they were only 0.5 seconds off the winner and would have beaten all the K1M...
Bob's plan is still best so far.