Points system ( comments )
We were discussing the current points system, and how it seems to reward mediocrity and punish those who go fast enough to make a mistake...
Mess up one race and the season is finished, yet consistently finish second or third or fourth and you could win the championship..
So an idea was thought up:
Points are accumulated from a race from seperate activities in the race as follows:
Placings:
Win = 9 points
Second = 6 points
Third = 4 points
Fourth = 3 points
Fifth = 2 points
Sixth = 1 point
Number of boats:
1 point for every starting boat you finish ahead of in the race.
So if there were 8 starting boats, and you finished first, then you get 7 points for finishing ahead of 7 boats. If you finished eighth, you get nil points and if you finished seventh, you get 1 point etc..
The idea is winning a race with 10 boats gets more points than winning a race with 2 boats!
So: if 12 boats start the race:
winner gets 9+11 = 20 points
2nd gets 6+10 = 16 points
3rd gets 4+9 = 13 points
4th gets 3+8 = 11 points
5th gets 2+7 = 9 points
6th gets 1+6 = 7 points
7th gets 0+5 = 5 points
8th gets 0+4 = 4 points
9th gets 0+3 = 3 points
10th gets 0+2 = 2 points
11th gets 0+1 =1 points
12th gets 0+0 = 0 points
if 8 boats start the race:
winner gets 9+7 = 16 points
2nd gets 6+6 = 12 points
3rd gets 4+5 = 9 points
4th gets 3+4 = 7 points
5th gets 2+3 = 5 points
6th gets 1+2 = 3 points
7th gets 0+1 = 1 points
8th gets 0+0 = 0 points
If there is a race with just 3 boats:
winner gets 9+2 = 11 points
2nd gets 6+1 = 7 points
3rd gets 4+0 = 4 points
The object is to give greater reward to first and second place, and greater reward for a place in a race with more competition.
Additional thoughts included the ability to 'DROP' 2 results from the year from your points total, excluding the National Finals events. This would allow someone who wins most races to recover from a single mistake, or allow a team to decide that they wanted to miss Cowes for example and not loose the season because of this. Two results would usually be a single event..
Any comments on this?
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