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Setting up discard totals.

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Category: General
Forum Name: Sailwave Support
Forum Discription: The place to ask questions relating to this popular sailing results program
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Printed Date: 10 May 25 at 3:23pm
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Topic: Setting up discard totals.

Posted By: fleaberto
Subject: Setting up discard totals.
Date Posted: 09 Aug 10 at 9:52pm

I'm a newbie to Sailwave so, doubtless, there is a very simple answer to my question.

How do i set up the number of discards for a series?

My club runs a system of "A third plus one" as series qualification (a third of races sailed, plus one) and i can't see how to set this up.

Have i missed something very obious?

Lee

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Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays'

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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 10 Aug 10 at 12:25am

Yeah, you create a formula in setup/scoring system/series scoring/discard profile. You have to figure out what result you want though.. Series qualification != discards. What you're saying sounds to me like best 4 races couldn't out of 9, best 8 out of 21, so 13 discards from 21 races. Is that correct? If so try ((s*2)/3)+1
If you want qualification as well then you need to hit setup/user interface and check the box that says qualification profile, and you'll get an extra and similar box in series scoring for the qualification profile.

Posted By: fleaberto
Date Posted: 10 Aug 10 at 10:58am

Excellent! Cheers Jim, that looks pretty much how i'd like it. Being a formula it would automatically account for unraced events too (abandoned etc) i guess.

Right, i'll crack on with trying that out.

Thanks.

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Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays'