| Subject: | Re: Meeting Rules Proposals |
| Date: | 01/31/2007 06:40 AM |
| From: | Jay Rideout <jbrideo..@yahoo.com> |
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Agreed, three in a class, and you'd better find some friends : ) But I'm in the shrinking 55+ world. Oh well. I'm thinking in terms of the promoter and the people that make the effort to be involved in some of the lower draw events. By distributing the range of points over the participating (finishing) field it maintains the full points value of a first place. With a bottom up points award I think you'd lose some incentive for participation and sponsership because there are no high end points. A top to bottom points distribution spread over a less then 15 group of finishers helps maintain the attraction of the event for racers, sponsers, and promoters. Just my $0.02 . (Geeze there's no "cent" symbol on the keyboard... inflation)
----- Original Message ----
I think that proposal winds up being completely arbitrary in practice. You could have three fast people in a legitimate close race, three sightseers dawdling or any combination thereof. How does this idea fairly reward the former while encouraging the latter? If you really want to tip the scales in favor of encouragement and reward how about a "bottom up" point structure. Start at 1 point for the last finisher and count up by one for every finisher.
Just a thought...
Jay Rideout wrote:
If the finishers doen't evenly match up to the points distribution, just round up a point. ----- Original Message ----
Discussion topics:
Proposed rules:
-No article of clothing may be worn that serves solely an aerodynamic purpose. (Reason - keep unfair advantages out of competition) (Negative - hard to interpret and enforce) -Change in BAR points system. All OBRA sanctioned races and fields would receive BAR points regardless of size. BAR points would be awarded from the bottom up, starting at the 15th finisher (or last finisher if there are fewer than 15 finishers) and progressing up to the 1st place finisher as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 25, 30. (Reason - make points more accessible at small events) (Negative - makes points mean less. For example, rider 1 could get the same amount of points racing with 3 people, that rider 2 could get racing against 100 people) Sal Collura
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