Race officer scoring

Just expanding this concept a little further;

How about having a 'non excludeable' duty race?

If you don't do a duty (in the series) you have at least one non excludable DNS. If you do, do a duty you get a mutually agreed score which you may or may not use.

Would that work?

Originally posted by laser193713 this makes it a lot more appealing to do your duty

But, assuming everyone in the series does a duty, all that does is have the same effect as giving everyone one more discard...

Originally posted by Adam MR 1137 Just out of interest how long are your series?

The Summer series runs from early May through to Late
September. Racing is on Tuesday evenings and Sunday
afternoons. The Tuesdays are split into early and late
sesaon while the Sundays run throughout. The Sunday
racing isn't as well supported as the Tuesday eve because
many of us travel about at the weekends. We are a very
Laser dominated club and the Irish Laser Association has
a very busy schedule. Keelboats don't race on Sundays as
they compete at the Royal Ulster on Saturday. We use the
same rescue crews throughout the season but run a Race
Office team of 4 (RO, Assistant, Timekeeper, Flags) for
each day's racing. A team of 4 means that we can still
race if only 3 turn up.

this may not work for everyone and as far as i know no one does this on a regular basis, but what if the you have class duty days.  that way you dont have to count average results, as everyone is in the same position. 

we do it for our club week with each class having a duty day.  it may be impractical for some club classes due to size - too large and people don t do anything or too small and you may have to merge classes for tat duty day.  yes people will miss a days sailing every so often but at least the duties will be shared out amongst all of the racers and not just the few whole actually volunteer their time.

Yeah it seems fair and fine nearly all of the time, so I have not really got a problem with it. Just more curious as to what everyone else is doing.

Just out of interest how long are your series?

I do not see how carefull planning to make sure you only miss one is possible without huge effort form somebody??!! and then what if that one becomes a DNC that you have to count, ssems better to offer an average score to me.