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Subject: [obc] Results-handicapping
This morning while doing ABC 40 km time trial, I was thinking of the
discussion
regarding handicaps. It was when a Cervélo passed at a speed that made
me feel
that I was standing still that I thought of the following system. It is
based
Simpson, Bob wrote:
Well, Celia, you're opening a can of worms here and the power to
determine
winners will lie in the hands of the handicap determiner. But then
that's
always been the case.
Of course - and this is why handicap events are generally meant to be
fun events done for honour
Well, Celia, you're opening a can of worms here and the power to determine
winners will lie in the hands of the handicap determiner. But then that's
always been the case. Some might argue that the time given for each year of
age is too generous. I can see the gears of a mathematician turning
I like the idea of always making an extra age/gender handicap page available for
each TT - but I'd want the handicapping method to be better justified than what we
currently have (
http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Racing/TimeTrials/Results/tt/2001/age-gender-hcap.txt
). I know of a British
Hi all:
Well, I finally got my laptop hooked back up to my home network after
arriving home - so the tt results from Aug 9 (found in my huge stash of
snail mail), Aug 30 and Sep 6 are now posted and accessible from the
obcweb. I actually put a few different displays of yesterdays results up
.
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Subject: [obc] results, handicapping?
Hi all:
Well, I finally got my laptop hooked back up to my home network after
arriving home - so the tt results from Aug 9
if they're improving.
Tom
On Friday, September 07, 2001 at 16:56, Les Humphreys (K) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote on RE: [obc] results, handicapping?, saying..
While the notion of age handicapping may be appropriate to level the
playing field for older competitors, it will always favour riders who
