On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 3:59:35 PM UTC+3, krasw wrote:
On Friday, 20 January 2017 11:05:21 UTC+2, Bruce Hoult wrote:
The stated reasoning is that difficult days are more about luck than about pilot skill. I think the decades of accumulated results show that to be incorrect -- the guys who win contests overall stand out from the also-rans EVEN MORE on the difficult days.

Smells like circular argument. Good guys win difficult days and good days, that is exactly what we wan't. If "wrong", lucky pilots would win on difficult days, we would have a problem.

Exactly. The "wrong" lucky pilots are not winning the difficult days (at least not very often) -- so why do we devalue the points? I think it's a mistake.