<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">As a funny aside, all the wives on the D1 Scoring Team this season have asked me about this when they got to entering scores for the P round LOL!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 1, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Scott Smith via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" class="">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I asked that same question and was told:<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><i class="">"<span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">No particular reason was given for the rounding up... They preferred it versus rounding down.</span>"</i></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Stuart Chale via NSRCA-discussion <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank" class="">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some ideas and changes are just plain stupid! There I said it :)<br class="">
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I have always hated the fact that some judging criteria and downgrades<br class="">
were different in FAI and AMA. Makes judging which is a tough job to do<br class="">
right even tougher. You have to know 2 different sets of rules and in<br class="">
the long run only lowers the accuracy of judging, most likely more so<br class="">
for the FAI fliers. But that is another can of worms.<br class="">
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I thought that allowing 1/2 points in FAI sounded like a good idea, we<br class="">
are used to it in the rest of the classes. And since the FAI pilots are<br class="">
in most part the better fliers they are more likely to make the 1/2<br class="">
point errors as compared to the greater inaccuracies usually seen in the<br class="">
lower classes.<br class="">
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But wait an 8.5 becomes a 9, and a 9 is still a 9 ??????<br class="">
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So just to prove how silly this idea can be I used Scott's scoring<br class="">
program and ran a fictitious contest with 2 flyers and 2 rounds. I used<br class="">
a couple of friends as contestants so to not offend anyone. I also had<br class="">
to use the masters sequence as an example, as the program automatically<br class="">
rounds up FAI scores.<br class="">
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Hopefully the PDF files are attached.<br class="">
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Each flyer received identical scores in each of their 2 flights. AR<br class="">
received all 7.5's except one maneuver which was an 8.5, and DL all 8's<br class="">
. In round 1 scores were not rounded up and in round 2 the scores were<br class="">
rounded up as they would automatically be done in FAI.<br class="">
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Look at the files for AR round 1 and DL round 1. It would seem pretty<br class="">
obvious who should win that round and without rounding up AR gets a<br class="">
947.75 to DL's 1000.<br class="">
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Note that every maneuver but one was judged higher for DL.<br class="">
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Now look at AR round 2 and DL round 2 rounded up. The same exact judges<br class="">
scores with only 1 maneuver scored higher for AR, but due to the<br class="">
rounding up AR wins the round 1000 to 989.86.<br class="">
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Now this is the extreme and unlikely to actually happen in a contest to<br class="">
this extent but just the fact that it works this way makes the whole<br class="">
idea of rounding up ridiculous.<br class="">
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Is there really an argument that this is a good thing?<br class="">
<br class="">
Stuart C.<br class="">
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