Results and Rankings.

[Big Jon]

Woo-hoo my new best score (by 50 points) - at a local event where I was tired at the start and exhausted at the end. Looks like the new 4 level event system will let me improve my position in the ranking list without improving my orienteering! If I get 6 scores of the same value I'll soar up to to p10 overall in the rankings. If Oleg gets 6 scores of the same value as he got for winning the Brown (by 10 minutes) he will be nearly 1400 points clear of Matt Crane who is currently in first place in the rankings!

Moral of this - if you want good points come to Maroc level C events in Deeside.
Next Level C event March 27th Redburn : http://www.marocscotland.org.uk/home/fixtures/

[EddieH]

Oleg's score was rather startling, and yet mine was just about bang on for my errors on the very same course.

I suspect that your points Jon do reflect your ability - you have been lowly ranked because of the lack of opportunities to get scores in the past year.

I expect that the anomolies here are because the North East of Scotland has a lot of competitors that have attended very few ranking events and therefore there has been minimal improvement on the dreadful seed data in this part of the world. I think you are right in that we can expect more Deeside events to provide strange ranking points, however as the year goes on this effect should lessen.

I stil can't quite get my head round why Oleg scores so many points and me so few

[Big Jon]

"I stil can't quite get my head round why Oleg scores so many points and me so few "

Simple - he runs bl**dy fast and doesn't miss!

[mharky]

I don't think he ran 200 points faster than at the twin peaks though...

just shows how jobbie the ranking system is

[Marky Mark]

The points for the EPOC event at Marsden Moor have vanished?

[awk]

Woo-hoo my new best score (by 50 points) - at a local event where I was tired at the start and exhausted at the end.

Purely anecdotal, but I'm currently finding it easier to score ranking points at smaller events (on shorter courses) than at the bigger races. Not enough results to be definitive on that, but trying to look at my scores objectively, some of my best runs have been rewarded worse than some pretty ordinary runs.

[DeerTick]

I see we've all been joined by our twins again. Should we continue to get ourselves tied in knots over the nuances of the algorithm when the coding keeps doing this?

AP

[Big Jon]

Boo-hoo, results for Bogendreip tidied up now and I've lost all my lovely points... Still Redburn is a lovely area and worth coming to.

[AlanB]

Woo-hoo my new best score (by 50 points) - at a local event where I was tired at the start and exhausted at the end.

Purely anecdotal, but I'm currently finding it easier to score ranking points at smaller events (on shorter courses) than at the bigger races. Not enough results to be definitive on that, but trying to look at my scores objectively, some of my best runs have been rewarded worse than some pretty ordinary runs.

I have just had my two best ever scores at the SoSOL event (green) at Dunbar and at the Scottish Sprint Championships at Perth, sandwiched by two disasters at the SoSOL (green) at Jedburgh and the SOL (short blue) at Dalrulzion. My previous best ranking performance, from last year, was at the SOL at Tentsmuir, although a non-ranking run at Cloberfield in the SoSOL was probably better.

What those four good performances had in common was that they were all in, for me, very runnable and navigable terrain, particularly the sprint. Where the event is held in conditions that stretch both my limited stamina and navigation skills then my relative performance suffers.

[awk]

Can anybody explain to me why scores from previous races keep changing? For instance, my points from the Compass Sport Cup qualifiers back in January went up 3 points last week. This is happening most weeks!

I'm intrigued as to how I can have an absolutely disastrous run (in a local Level C event), making 8-10 minutes of mistakes and coming lower than I've done in ages on a blue course, and yet score only 37 points less than one of the best races i've run in quite a while at the Southerns, inside championship standard (comfortably a much better performance than my best score so far, again on a blue at a local Level C). Seems a lot easier to pick up points on shorter (Blue/Green) courses at local events than at the big races, and there are some sky high scores that have been recorded at them looking at some other results.

[graeme]

It says in the guidelines that after every race all the scores a rescaled to ensure
that the average is 1000 the so-called "standard deviation" is 200 but they leave the skewness in so as to d*bber the stats. in the way you describe

[Marky Mark]

The points for the EPOC event at Marsden Moor have vanished?

I find the ranking system to be pretty fair, I've improved over the last 6 months and my ranking points have reflected that. If I swap courses then there is very little difference in the points I get, so seems to be working across the different lengths. I would class myself as an average runner.

The only problem I have is why a full set of courses/results now pick up zero points when they were allocated when they first appeared on the results pages.

[jonesy]

For those of you who are the wrong side of 40, and harder training to improve your ranking points is not an option:

How to boost your ranking points.doc

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[lucy]

So let me confirm if I score over 1000 points then I am an above average orienteer?

[IanD]

For those of you who are the wrong side of 40, and harder training to improve your ranking points is not an option:

How to boost your ranking points.doc

I had a good laugh reading this, although of course everything in it is literally true.

However I would say that anyone making improving their ranking their sole orienteering objective is more than a little sad. Getting fitter/orienteering better may be the hardest way to get better ranking points, but it is also the most satisfying way.