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Alternative to Fixed Total Validity

Godfrey's Departure and Leading points
FTV
Alternative to Fixed Total Validity
Sun, Jan 28 2007, 9:40:29 pm AEDT

Godfrey Wenness|scoring

Godfrey Weness «SkyGodfrey»

The Departure and Leading Out points issue, while separate from FTV, still is along the lines of rewarding pilots for being out the front and compensating them for the risk (though FTV can do that for a series of events/tasks for a ladder). FTV suffers because pilots don't easily understand it and it doesn't give you a indication of the winner of a comp (or ladder series) until the end - as the relative dropped FTV scores can change after the last task.

I have mentioned a new addition to the task scoring system I came up with, to a few people recently, and have received full support in principle for it.

The best part is that its simple and clear.

It's for tasks, not whole events, and is combination of both departure and leading points, but using the software to make a logical calculation.

I am not a programming expert, we have plenty of excellent ones out here, this is what it should do:

- first, give/award a certain amount of points to leading pilots (nothing new there - could be 100 pts on a full validity day). In fact you could vary it depending on what type of race you want to run - more DLO pts for days/comps where you want pilots to race and move on and take risks, less for long tasks (eg cross country open)

- over a task calculate how long in distance or time terms the pilot(s) was/were "leading" (ie had their nose ahead on the task line). 1 pilot may be been ahead a few times - its the cumulative distance or time or % of the task that we are looking for.

- If it's a big gaggle out front then the impact of this is minimal - as it should be. The pilots typically swap the lead - the DLO points get diluted and that reflects the day.

- If its a few solo pilots out the front - they may also swap and change the lead (even if they are in different places/tracks - not together), they get more percentage of the points avail - it also reflects their effort - (more so than the part time gaggle leaders).

- and at the other end of the scale - if it's one pilot who led out from launch all the way to goal, he gets all the leading points, but if he say decks it 100m short of goal - at least he will get 99% of those points to make up for his effort.

The pilot with the fastest time always wins (in a race), the pilot who was on course and leading most of the time gets most of the avail DLO pts, but can never win the task - he may come in 2nd across the line but should never be able to win the day due to DLO pts. This is the crux of the main complaints against the current system who say that the first over the line should always be the winner of the day.

The DLO system works with Races or elapsed time - in the latter if you take an early time and lead you get the points advantage for taking the risk, so if the 2nd start gate time gaggle catches you and you make it in to goal with them you "may" actually win the day if your DLO pts are valued high enough.

Another version could be to have say the top 3 leaders get points split - maybe 70/20/10% of the 100%.

In a nutshell doing a simple calculation.

Let's say its a 100kms task taking 100mins, each km (or minute) is worth 1% of the 100% available DLO points - of which we have said there are 100 available on this day, which is fully valid (1000pts).

3 pilots have their nose in front at various stages over the course - A was there for 25kms total (15+10kms), B was only in front from launch for the first 10kms and C lead alone all the way into goal from the 35kms mark (thus 75kms in the lead)

The DLO points then go like this : A gets 25pts, B gets 10pts and C get 75pts.

It will need a horse race type calculation that runs on distance (or time) spent in front. Each time a pilot is in front it accumulates his kms (or time) there. A minimum distance time factor in the lead should be applied so as to avoid the split second jumble of gaggles…perhaps say 1km or 1% of the time. Thus unless you had your nose in front for 1km or 1 minute it doesn't accumulate - this will stop gaggle flyers from running out collecting the pts and then waiting for the group to catch up to find another climb.

Over to the programming experts and everyone else for comment.

Sounds a lot like GAP 2002 to me.


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