At 01:12 18 January 2017, John Cochrane wrote:
7T: I'm sorry to hear of your heartbreaking landout, especially from such
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good position. Time to show great sports psychology and go win
tomorrow!=
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It's a great example of the IGC rules issue: Only landout, a few km
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330 points. Only finisher, everyone else a few km short: they get 999
poin=
ts. Now you know why "stick with the gaggle" is so vital in IGC scoring.
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tter to land out with the gaggle than to take any risk in order to be the
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nly finisher.=20

US scoring isn't perfect either. It also switches from speed to distance
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ints in a complex way depending on landouts.=20

Heres my current best suggestion:=20

points =3D (day devaluation factor) max ( 1000 x speed / winner's speed,
75=
0 x distance / winner distance)=20

the day devaluation factor doesn't matter here. What matters is speed vs.
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istance points. And the key -- they are fixed, irrespective of the number
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f landouts.=20

So, only finisher gets 1000, 1 km landout gets 750. Only landout gets
750.
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The incentive to be lone wolf goes way up.=20

It works as now if you're really slow. If you are below 75% of the
winner's=
speed, you get 750 points for finishing. You always get the better of
spee=
d and distance.=20

And real simple too. People might (gasp) actually understand their score!

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And strategy. No more need for team captains to report landouts to tell
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if it's a speed day or distance day.=20

it gets rid of some other IGC idiosyncrasies too, like the occasional
incen=
tive to deliberately land out.=20

John Cochrane

Why only get speed points if you finish. I do not see why you shouldn't
earn speed points for going to ground quickly. 100 point finish bonus 500
distance 400 speed