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September 23, 2014 at 1:21 pm #5071
Mike Senior
ParticipantI’ve been asked by the championship committee to get some views on the current fleet allocation system and whether we should be looking at possible alternatives. The main issue is that the current system is subjective and almost impossible to apply a suitable mathematical formula to allocate a fleet before an event starts. This has and will always lead to a little controversy.
As a reminder here is the current guidance:
GOLD – A competitor with aspirations of winning the event. For National/Inland Championships or Grand Prix overall results a competitor would generally have a track record of winning an area championship or a top 10 position in a UK National Championship or a top 5 position in an Inland Championship.
SILVER – An experienced dinghy racer with aspirations of finishing in the top half of the fleet. For National/Inland Championships or Grand Prix overall results the sailor may have been successful at open meeting or area level but has yet to finish in the positions described as a Gold fleet sailor.
BRONZE – A bronze fleet competitor is likely to have a track record of finishing in the bottom half of the fleet or be new to dinghy racing.
I’ll kick off some suggestions:
– Leave as is.
– re-word the above to make the distinctions more clear. Please add suggestions below…
– Assign sailors to fleets (potentially in equal portion) mid regatta, e.g. 3 races in. Sailors could always opt to move up fleets (e.g. to account for abnormal results from breakages etc…), but couldn’t move down.
– Come up with an entirely new system. I personally like the system British Cycling use for racing. – http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/road/article/roadst_Road-Categories_Classifications (I don’t think this exact system would work for amateur dinghy racing, but could be altered to suit. e.g. Cat 4 = new to racing sailor. Cat 3 = Sailor who has amassed a number of points (e.g. open meeting /championship attendances taken across any class at any time). A Cat 3 sailor can never be downgraded to Cat 4. Cat 2 sailor, a few more points and so on… Cat 1,2 and 3 sailors could move between categories. Different levels of points could be awarded depending on the difficulty of event. E.G. championship events could be classed as harder, therefore a finishing place earns more points etc… Again, a rule could be set that if someone wanted to voluntarily go up the categories then fine, but not the other way round.
Discuss…
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