Inaccurate Contest Scoring

Gentlemen,

Thanks for your responses. A number of issues were raised. However,
many of you did not address the question that I asked. Should a
pilot's score be determined by his performance alone or should the
performances of his competitors be able to influence his score? If you
are still interested, please answer that question.

I don't know what my soaring experience has to do with your logical
evaluation of a scoring system. However, some of you asked. Over the
past forty-two years, I have flown sailplanes for over 3300 hours. I
have competed in ten nationals and numerous regionals. I have had
several articles on scoring systems for soaring published. You can
trace through them with the reference in my original posting, "History
of Contest Scoring."

Bill Feldbaumer 09

Bill Feldbaumer wrote:

Gentlemen,

Thanks for your responses. A number of issues were raised. However,
many of you did not address the question that I asked. Should a
pilot's score be determined by his performance alone or should the
performances of his competitors be able to influence his score? If you
are still interested, please answer that question.

I've flown under both kinds of systems, and I prefer the "determined by
his performance alone" for the rule simplicity, but I prefer the "the
performances of his competitors be able to influence his score" for the
greater fairness I think it supplies.


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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

(Bill Feldbaumer) wrote in message om...
Gentlemen,

Thanks for your responses. A number of issues were raised. However,
many of you did not address the question that I asked. Should a
pilot's score be determined by his performance alone or should the
performances of his competitors be able to influence his score? If you
are still interested, please answer that question.

Bill,

Of course my competitors' performance should influence my score.
This is the whole point of racing !

Maybe you should rephrase that question.

My suggested questions:

Should every day count the same ?
Should strong days count more/less than weak days ?
How do we decide on strong/weak days ?

Todd Smith
3S