[NSRCA-discussion] NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee - AMA Rules Proposals

[Scott Smith]

Jeff,


Please take a look at the attached.  Granted it’s 100% theoretical but it
showed me that what we have is not the best strategy, at least on paper.


Assigning a descending value to the top 4 pilots and calculating how many
times a group flies against them, I derived a weighted difficulty for each
group.


So if you’re in Group A, you fly against #1 4 times.  However you can drop
one round so make it 3.

You’ll fly against #2 2 times, but again, we’ll drop one round and make it 1

You’ll fly against #3 twice and keep both rounds so it’s 2

You won’t fly against #4 so that cell gets a zero


Then we take (3*10) + (1*9) + (2*8) + (0*7) and come up with 55.


Do that for the remaining groups and D has a 9 point spread advantage over
group A.


Flip the rotation around and things look way better.  B and D have a 3
point advantage over A and C, but clearly this is a more equitable approach.


Scott


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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:58 AM, Jeff via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> I don’t think Proposal 18-7 actually fixes a problem. If we assume that
> the top three seeded pilots determine the level of competition within a
> group as the proposal states, then the proposal does change the most
> disadvantaged group (the groups seeing the most difficult level of
> competition) from A to C. But it also changes the most advantaged group
> from D to B. The net effect is that it skews the scores higher for A and B
> and we’ve just moved the “problem” from one group to another.
>
> Jeff
> jeff at hillanalysis.com
>
> *True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that your high school
> class is running the country. *
> Kurt Vonnegut
>
> On Feb 23, 2017, at 9:14 PM, Jerry Budd via NSRCA-discussion <
> nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I was recently appointed Chairman of the NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee
> and tasked with creating an ad-hoc committee to review and comment on the
> proposals that have been formally submitted to the AMA RC Aerobatics
> Contest Board.  John Fuqua and Robert Green have generously agreed to join
> me on the NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee.  Their email addresses are listed
> below.
>
> johnfuqua at embarqmail.com
> rgreen24 at hotmail.com
>
> There are currently 7 proposals under review; they can be found at:
> http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/ruleproposals/rcaero.aspx.
>
> There is a March 15th submittal deadline for new proposals to AMA so there
> isn’t sufficient time to conduct a NSRCA member survey and analyze the
> data.  There is time for interested members to read the proposals and share
> their thoughts with the Committee members directly via email, or indirectly
> on this discussion list.  Either way I would request that you provide your
> comments soon as the Committee will need a few days to summarize its
> thoughts before submitting them to the AMA RC Aerobatics Contest Board.
>
> One point that I want to emphasize is that the NSRCA Rules Proposal
> Committee is *not* tasked with taking suggestions for rules proposals
> from the general NSRCA Membership and creating new proposals for submittal
> to AMA based on that input.  The Committee's tasking is to:
>
>    1. Review proposals that have been submitted to AMA.
>    2. Receive input from the general NSRCA membership on the submitted
>    proposals.
>    3. Provide comment/suggestions to the RC Aerobatics Contest Board as
>    the official voice of NSRCA.
>
> If you are interested in submitting a proposal to AMA, instructions may be
> found here:  http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/ruleproposals.aspx#
> 2018-2019.  However, I would recommend that you consider contacting your
> District’s representative on the AMA RC Aerobatics Contest Board in advance
> of submitting the proposal so you can benefit from their thoughts and
> perspective.  I would also politely request that you send me a copy of your
> proposal so the NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee can study it and be able to
> provide the Contest Board with timely input on the proposal.  As I
> mentioned earlier, AMA’s deadline for new proposal submittals is March
> 15th, so please don’t delay!
>
> Of course, everyone who is an AMA member has the option to send their
> inputs directly to the RC Aerobatics Contest Board.  If you are interested
> in doing so, here is the contact info for the AMA RC Aerobatics Contest
> Board http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/cbmembers.aspx.
>
> Thx, Jerry
> jerry at buddengineering.com
>
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