Contender Worlds Scoring

interestingly (or not) the glider boys are discussing about adopting a dropped score system as opposed to the current every day/race counts system

I went all the way to Canada for the 2008 worlds.  I beat the other female sailor in five out of the nine races, but she won the title because she had a beter points score than me (though we had to go to countback to work this out)  This happened because although I sailed out of my skin on the last day, beating her in all three of that day's races and with no top batten, it was really windy at the start of the day so a lot of the tail enders (Canadians) didn't race, so I din't have enough sailors to put between me and her to get the points difference..

I didn't grumble because that was the way it was.  Rules is rules and you learn to live with it.


Edited by winging it - 28 Jul 13 at 6:03pm

Can't say I see the logic of that at all, the best sailor didn't win, I've no idea if this is to do with the no justice scoring system they're using for Olympic TV or why it is, but it is total bollox and wrong, it needs fixing, none Olympic classes should return to the way it was, I assume the last race which in my day would have simply been his discard had to count so he chucked the 2nd, discarded a 2nd to come second, honestly and you want sailing to seem appealing?

It's f**ked up.

Not as if it's a really big fleet.

I believe the idea is ensure that results from the final series are valued more highly as they clearly harder to do well in (double the amount of top sailors). It is wrong to be able to discard 50% of these scores in favour of qualifying results against lesser competition. If we had completed 3 final race the discard would have been usable in the final series.

Everyone agrees that it better just for everyone to race the whole series together but 180 boats at Como is hard to manage which leaves you with a compromise and complication. At the time it felt like a fair enough system, it looks bad on paper as its hard to appreciate the quality difference between qualifying and final series.

Heres the SI's on discards.

21.4 (a) When fewer than 5 races have been completed, a boat’s regatta score will be the total of her race scores.   
      
(b) When from 5 to 8 races have been completed, a boat’s regatta score will be the total of her race scores excluding her worst score. However, a score from a race in the final series may be excluded only if three or more final-series races have been completed.   
      
(c) When 9 or more races have been completed, a boat’s regatta score will be the total of her race scores excluding her two worst scores. However, only one score from the final series may be excluded.

Yes, this system works fine if you can get to 9 races and the actual result of 7 races with 2 final was probably the combination that highlighted the weaknesses most.

If it was a single fleet there would be no need breaking qualifying into 2 fleet and having a final series (everything after the word 'however' goes away!), we would have just raced 7 races in the standard fashion. This system only comes into use when you have too many competitor for 1 mass start.