Scoring Discussion

On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 2:17:46 PM UTC-5, Ron Gleason wrote:


Has the feature to drop a day been left in WINSCORE?

Hey Ron,

I don't think so. I believe it's a relatively simple work-around, though obviously automated is always better. I remember you and I ended up in a useful discussion about racehorse starts a few years back that ended up as not practical to try manually - and you and Bruno are more up for trying things than most.

It's the classic chicken-egg problem - how much coding to ask programmers to do on spec versus how much effort to ask scorers to go through just to try out innovations in how contests are scored. It's a giant doom-loop without some effort somewhere.

9B

On Friday, 20 January 2017 12:35:15 UTC-7, Andy Blackburn wrote:
On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 2:17:46 PM UTC-5, Ron Gleason wrote:


Has the feature to drop a day been left in WINSCORE?

Hey Ron,

I don't think so. I believe it's a relatively simple work-around, though obviously automated is always better. I remember you and I ended up in a useful discussion about racehorse starts a few years back that ended up as not practical to try manually - and you and Bruno are more up for trying things than most.

It's the classic chicken-egg problem - how much coding to ask programmers to do on spec versus how much effort to ask scorers to go through just to try out innovations in how contests are scored. It's a giant doom-loop without some effort somewhere.

9B

To try I am assuming we could just delete the IGC file for the day and have that day scored as a DNF. On the other hand that would require only 'n' days scored for each pilot. Workable. Let's talk again at Nephi and maybe try something there

On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 2:51:54 PM UTC-5, Ron Gleason wrote:

To try I am assuming we could just delete the IGC file for the day and have that day scored as a DNF. On the other hand that would require only 'n' days scored for each pilot. Workable. Let's talk again at Nephi and maybe try something there

Could try that - the more fair way it to pick the day for each competitor with the biggest score differential versus the winner and award them that score starting on, say, the third day There's no point in doing anything on the first day - it would be a giant tie. The actual rule would be workable with manual processing but more work, so it's a tradeoff.

Yes, Nephi would be the place to try it.

9B