The predictability of PYAG

Has no one noticed it is called a 'yardstick' not a 'micrometer'? Surely the name is a clue?

Has no one noticed that, even in a strict one design, open meeting placings in consistent conditions across a day can be all over the place? I've never see a decent fleet with the same positions for each boat in every race. If it were like that we'd probably find something else to do. So how can anyone other than a demented troll argue that any handicapping system for a menagerie race, no matter it's basis, be accurate to 3.6 seconds in an hour, when class racing swings between 2 people, on the same day, in the same conditions can be easily 10 times that big?

So, I suggest corrected time results should  be unabbreviated to include something like "using an unavoidably imperfect averaging system based on voluntarily submitted race-time returns from inconsistent locations around the country for last year, without adjusting for sailor ability, race management team competence, prevailing conditions (whether venue or weather based), abilities of sailors nor condition of their equipment and applying that imperfect coefficient to today's race, the just-for-fun spuriously accurate results are..." 

And no grf, don't bother with a FTFY, no one will give a damn