Having picked up a few PB's recently it got me thinking whether there could be a place in the scoring system of the GTC which could reflect some of the effort in achieving such.
Here's the idea.
When a PB is achieved, a multiplier is applied to the team score for that particular category for that particular day.
Suggested ranking for applied multiplier as follows:
For speed categories, for every 1kt or part thereof above the previous PB, a multiplier of 0.01 is applied. i.e 3.2kt increase in PB = 0.04 multiplier.
For distance this could be for every 10km over PB = 0.01 multiplier. Maximum multiplier cannot exceed 0.1 for any category. This would result in an increase in the score in line with the increase in the PB. Let's face it anyone who can better their PB by 10kts has had a real effort and from then on it will not be that easy to gain higher multiplier values. Plus that effort can be reflected in the score.
First timers PB's are not considered as this will be the basis for any PB improvements.
Now if the team qualifies for a team score, then the multiplier is applied to the average to calculate an final score, thus providing the PB'er assisting in the team score for the categories where a PB is achieved. If two PB's are achieved in the same category, only the highest multiplier is used. The PB'ers score does not have to necessarily be one of the two averaged scores used.
Example: In the 2 sec cat a team has 4 sailors posting times. The two highest speeds are calculate to say 30kts. Another sailor gets a PB of 24kt which is 1.5kt better than his previous. The multiplier for this would be 0.02.
Multiply the score of 30 by 1.02 and a new score of 30.6 kt is the team score for that category on the day.
In categories where no PB is achieved the multiplier would be zero.
Hope I've explained this well enough. Just think it might add another dimension to the GTC, one in which lesser mortals strive to better their sailing skills and can have some input into team performance.
Put this to Hardie this morning and suggested they would prefer not to tinker with the scoring system at the moment as it works well, which I agree. Maybe a concept like this could be considered somewhere down the track.
That would help with the "sliding off the end of the page" issue.
