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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423'>For me it’s more about the fun and flying and less about the scores so you won’t hear any complaints from me regardless of what you decide to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423'>Ray G<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Gordon Anderson [mailto:gaa@owt.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> AK, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY<br><b>Subject:</b> [NSRCA-dist8] scoring<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would like to hear your thoughts on a couple of issues about the scoring program.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The guys in D7 that use my program would prefer a different display mode during the event as defined below:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Rounds flown<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Rounds used <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>1<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>1<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>2<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>2<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>4<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>3<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>5<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>4<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>6<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>4<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>To keep things simple I would like to use the same procedure here in D8, are you all ok with this?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Also I have added three normalization schemes to the scoring program:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>1.) Normalize to the maximum round score. This is the default mode we always use and the AMA rule book mode.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3.) No normalization, use raw scores.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Comments?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ideas?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--Gordon<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>