greywolf wrote:But the points distribution is skewed - so for example having your best runner run both M & L and finish 11th & 3rd scores fewer points for the team than if they rest up, get 2nd in the long and someone else is 30th in the middle...
You're missing the key point about the randomness of the results. In your example 2nd/30th is just as likely to end up as 10th/30th. Among people running two events at WOC, there's almost no way to determine which they'll do better at.