[NSRCA-dist8] scoring

[J N Hiller]

Good morning Gordon. I caught this before retiring to the shop.
I'm good with all of it.
" I have heard a lot of speculation about using no normalization___."  This
is interesting.
I understand the reasons and need to use normalization especially at large
contests but never favored it. Normalization almost makes each round a mini
contest used for contest placement rather than an accumulation of successful
flights. I prefer my score to be solely my own not a percentage of someone
else's good or bad flight but I do this as a personal challenge.
When I was VP in the mid 80's normalization was adopted and I computed raw
score placement from published NATS results to understand it's fairness and
as I remember placement didn't change above about 6 th place.
Jim

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[mailto:nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Gordon Anderson
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:01 AM
To: AK, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY
Subject: [NSRCA-dist8] scoring

All,

I would like to hear your thoughts on a couple of issues about the scoring
program.

As you all know my scoring program always shows 4 of 6 rounds when the
standings are reported during the contest. This means as the event proceeds
no rounds will be dropped until we fly the 5th round.
The guys in D7 that use my program would prefer a different display mode
during the event as defined below:
Rounds flown               Rounds used
1                                                          1
2                                                          2
3                                                          2
4                                                          3
5                                                          4
6                                                          4
To keep things simple I would like to use the same procedure here in D8, are
you all ok with this?

Also I have added three normalization schemes to the scoring program:
1.) Normalize to the maximum round score. This is the default mode we always
use and the AMA rule book mode.
2.) Normalize to the average of all pilots for each round. This is a mode
one of the guys in D7 wants to try, interesting!
3.) No normalization, use raw scores.

So for fun at the contests we can see what the impact would be of different
modes by just selecting each option and printing the results. I am not
proposing that we do it any different than before but it will be fun to see
the affect. I have heard a lot of speculation about using no normalization
so now we can see!

Thoughts?
Comments?
Ideas?

--Gordon
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