[NSRCA-dist8] scoring

[Gordon Anderson]

I have a lot of contest data we can ply with so it will be fun to see what happens to the results. The one contest i did test with was just like you said, only the lower places were impacted, that may make sense the more I think about it.

--Gordon

On May 7, 2011, at 9:46 AM, J N Hiller wrote:

> 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
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [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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