They tried something very similar in sailing in the late 80's early 90's - it was a very expensive failure for very similar reasons.
They also tried "multi-number" handicaps for different conditions - again this failed as unless you get a uniform day, they are even worse than what we have now as 60%+ of pilots will object to the conditions chosen for scoring !! On 18/03/2008, at 10:43 PM, Tim Shirley wrote: > Gary, > > Whether you disagree with the second point or not, the fact is that > at the time it was one reason given by pilots for disliking the > system. They didn't come to this opinion before they tried it, and > you might be the same :) > > Believe me, it was adequately trialled! You should have been at the > pilots meetings... > > In regard to resurrecting it, I'm afraid that the maths was > horrendous. Murray Evans held a PhD in applied maths, I think. > Also, using SeeYou scoring it would be difficult or perhaps > impossible to program, because SeeYou expects a fixed handicap. So > unless someone (not me) is prepared to write a scoring system from > scratch, then I think we can consign the idea to history. Scoring > isn't a walk in the park anyway, and layering this type of thing on > top of it will not exactly help. > > Potentially, there are simpler approaches that might work - for > example, some form of handicap adjustment based on a fixed factor > like "Strong, Average or Weak" conditions, with each glider having > effectively three different handicaps. Somehow you have to apply a > different handicap on each day. Still hard to program, but a bit > easier than all the curve fitting maths. > > I think it is easier to have a 2 week comp to even things out. > > Cheers > > Tim > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
