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Sailboat Season Points and Scoring

Low Point System
The standard sailboat scoring system is a "low point" system. I have tried to score in other ways, but after you do the math a few times and factor in things like people not being able to make races, and people not finishing a race because of broken stuff, it makes a lot of sense the way the classic scoring system works.

When you run a race, first place gets 1 point, the 2nd place gets 2 etc.

If someone races but does not finish the race, they get one point for everyone that did FINISH the race, +1.

If someone doesn't start the race (couldn't make it to the race, or joined fleet later on in the season), for races they missed, they get one point for everyone who STARTED, +1.

Then.... you can have what is called a "thow out", where after a season of racing, you throw out the worst (highest) score that each person got at a certain race (whether they made it there or not).

If you think about it, and run the numbers a few times, you will see that this is a very good system to score races and it gives apropriate scoring for missing and not finishing races. Also you can use this scoring system for any of the alternate types of racing, not just round the bouy type.

Example of A Season of Racing:
To see pictures from the races, click on the race number at the top.

Name	Boat	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Total
Started / Finished		3 / 3	4 / 2	6 / 2	4 / 4	0 / 0	3 / 3	2 / 2	3 / 3
Ken Abrahams	Ugly Duckling	1	1	3 dnf	1	0 dns	1	1	1	9
Shorty	Bucket Ears	2	2	1	3	0 dns	2	2	4 dns	16
David Sargent	Ducky	4 dns	5 dns	2	2	0 dns	3	3 dns	2	21
Doug Day	D.U.B	3	5 dns	3 dnf	4	0 dns	4 dns	3 dns	4 dns	26
James Banik	un-named	4 dns	3 dnf	3 dnf	5 dns	0 dns	4 dns	3 dns	4 dns	26
Chuck Leinweber	ACME	4 dns	3 dnf	3 dnf	5 dns	0 dns	4 dns	3 dns	4 dns	26
Mike Falasca Jr	Dasher	4 dns	5 dns	7 dns	5 dns	0 dns	4 dns	3 dns	3	28

DNS means Did Not Start (# of start +1)
DNF means Did Not Finish (# of finish +1)

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