Quick PY Question

Look, you have to accept it can't be done, but what can be done is to set a mean guideline for an optimum condition for a given boat/course and even if and when you did, the sailor variable will be way beyond anyones ability to quantify.

You also have to have a median standard point, wether you've tried it and failed or not, you are failing now, it can't be logical for someone like Wing Wang to willingly enter three different events and get given three different handicaps, within a space of three weeks, nothing you are going to be able to concoct is going to explain or justify the logic of that to me, never mind an inexperienced newcomer.

You've had it explained to you that no matter how many statistics you manage to garner the margin of error will never be close enough, so all you can resort to is scientific facts, log and measure the boats, set the handicap, give it say five years to settle, then that is it, no further change unless there is a material alteration of the craft.

The way you are working now, you are chasing so many variables, totally beyond your control with no clear reference point one to another, boats that were historically similar are now drawing further apart for no particularly good reason (Blaze/Phantom) (Laser/Supernova) the market is busying itself trying to use you for it's own wicked ends and buggering it up for all of us as a result, so you need to act and come down hard now whilst you still have some credibility left imv.

Because out here in La La land the whole thing is a silly joke and all your hard work risks being the butt of it.

Lets just accept that just like the py system with GRF you are never going to win.

Edited by maxibuddah - 12 Jan 13 at 1:24pm

Originally posted by RS400atC The more the numbers are changed locally, the less people will respect them.Sailing off the national numbers, we accept the results as reasonably fair, subject to the vagaries of wind, weather and other stuff beyond our control.Once they are influenced by known individuals on the sailing committee, people question them a lot more and start mentioning that they would have won if Mr X hadn't changed the numbers. Or 'I'm not going back to xyzSC's regatta, they don't give us a fair number'. That's not healthy.

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Originally posted by RS400atC The more the numbers are changed locally, the less people will respect them. Sailing off the national numbers, we accept the results as reasonably fair, subject to the vagaries of wind, weather and other stuff beyond our control. Once they are influenced by known individuals on the sailing committee, people question them a lot more and start mentioning that they would have won if Mr X hadn't changed the numbers. Or 'I'm not going back to xyzSC's regatta, they don't give us a fair number'. That's not healthy.

Originally posted by RS400atC The more the numbers are changed locally, the less I will respect them. Sailing off the national numbers, I accept the results as reasonably fair, subject to the vagaries of wind, weather and other stuff beyond my control. Once they are influenced by known individuals on the sailing committee, I question them a lot more and start mentioning that I would have won if Mr X hadn't changed the numbers. Or 'I'm not going back to xyzSC's regatta, they don't give me a fair number'. That's not healthy.

I've corrected you post .