On Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 5:59:18 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 9:42:42 PM UTC-5, SoaringXCellence wrote:
Chip,

In this case the scoring is done by SeeYou, not WinScore and is implemented via scripts that Jim has refined in the UK.

I understood that conceptually but probably not in sufficient detail. I'm curious to know how that would work under the SSA scoring system. Would the task-based distances just be imported into Winscore as a file to be scored using the existing rules for min distance, devaluation, airport landing bonus, etc.? Or would SeeYou score the entire day using SSA formulae, and the points imported into Winscore to be added to the other days? Not sure Winscore is set up for either of these, or if you could do at least the former with a simple script. Or would you just score the whole contest using SeeYou, with or without SSA scoring formulae? There are more manual steps involved in using Winscore than most pilots realize but I don't know how complex it would be to integrate with SeeYou, if that's what would be required. My version of SeeYou is ancient and it's been 5+ years since I scored with Winscore.

Chip Bearden

I believe you would score the whole contest in SeeYou, using the scoring script of your choice. It should be be possible to write (or modify) a script to implement the US/SSA rules, as Winscore does. The difference here is that each flight log has to be scored against a task that is unique to that glider. Jim's post processor appends that particular task into that particular log (in theory automatically), which is then evaluated by SeeYou for violations, speed, etc. Since the handicapping is done with the task distances, speed is speed - it doesn't need to be adjusted for other than violations.. Points assignment would be done by the SeeYou scoring script to suit your taste in rules.