[NSRCA-dist8] scoring

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Gordon-- I like it just the way you have it now. For all each of us 
knows, the contest might be stopped after 4 or 5, or we might have 
trouble ourselves, etc. Plus it keeps a little "unknown" going in our 
minds when scores are close.

On 5/7/2011 7:01 AM, Gordon Anderson wrote:
> 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 flownRounds used
> 11
> 22
> 32
> 43
> 54
> 64
> 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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