[NSRCA-discussion] Bakersfield Bash scores are on the NSRCA website...

[Peter Vogel]

Well, it's normalization of a sort, in that it's a percentage of perfect
within each class, so a 984 in Intermediate and a 984 in Sportsman mean the
same thing, you flew 98.4% of the perfect score (no, I haven't seen a score
that high! :-)

Overall though, I don't like the dynamic of it.  It's very clear when you
have a highly critical set of judges, everyone pretty much drops that
round.  Normalization to best is definitely a superior way for people to
see how they are doing relative to the best pilot in the round for a
particular set of judges, regardless of how critical (or not) they happen
to be.  An interesting experiment, but I wouldn't recommend it for future
contests.

Peter+


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:08 PM, John Gayer <jgghome at comcast.net> wrote:

>  It is a misnomer to call what was used normalization. It is actually a
> reversion to the pre-normalization scoring scheme of yesteryear. The only
> difference from the old days is that by "normalizing" to a perfect score,
> you can immediately see the average raw score per maneuver.
> John
>
> On 4/28/2014 6:15 PM, Anthony Romano wrote:
>
> So why the change in normalization?
>
>  Anthony
>
>  ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:04:28 -0700
> From: vogel.peter at gmail.com
> To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Bakersfield Bash scores are on the NSRCA
> website...
>
> Final data from the contest is also available here:
>
>  http://www.patternscoring.com/560, the per-contestant report is
> considerably richer than what you get on nsrca.us
>
>  I also just completed an analysis of what would have happened if we'd
> normalized to best instead of to perfect, the only class where it would
> have made a difference in final placement was FAI Silver (MP15) where Jon's
> win in one round and 2nd place rounds were closer to Sean's scores than
> Dale's 2nd place rounds would have put him about 30 points over Dale.
>
>  Peter+
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Peter Vogel <vogel.peter at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> That's not the scoring program, the XML says "Prelim", "1", "2" for the
> flight number, but the web server's transformation is showing it as "1",
> "2" and "0".
>
>  Peter+
>
>
>  On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Derek Koopowitz <
> derekkoopowitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Everyone,
>
>  The NSRCA website is back up and running again... our host was doing
> some maintenance on the server.  The scores for the Bakersfield contest
> have been posted and just to let everyone know...
>
>  1.  Every score is normalized to PERFECT, not to best pilot
> 2.  Every AMA class flew 2 final rounds on Sunday using unknowns
> 3.  Best 3 of 4 prelim rounds were AVERAGED to produce a SINGLE round
> score to carry over into the finals.
>  4.  Best 2 of 3 (prelim carry over + 2 final rounds = 3) count for the
> final score.
>
>  In FAI F, Prelim carry over is shown as Round 1, Round 2 is first finals
> round, and round 3 is the 2nd final round -- for some reason the scoring
> program is showing that as round 0.
>
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