Stir away Martin - the more the merrier. Daz's decisions are final of course, but if logic starts to enter into it too much then I'll probably lose interest. Maybe it's about time someone started an alternative forum champs thread with slightly different rules, to really get the arguments going. Me, I'll stick with the People's Front of Judea. For now.
I don't make "decisions" I just do what people tell me
the self-certify/objection approach seems to work pretty well
meanwhile... I can't believe that Nick & I are the only ones doing Kinder Trog on Sunday - anybody else be there...?
oh, and here's dom's calculator: http://www.nblg.co.uk/champ/
Name Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Tot Upcoming Races Tindersticks 90 86 88 91 88 90 533 dantodman 79 79 84 82 100 59 483 Buttermere Horseshoe Splatcher 49 94 72 65 71 78 429 The Beast (Maeshafn), Vegan Welsh 3000s, Tattenhall Tough Team, Moel y Gamelin, Lakes 10 Peaks BritNick 67 86 64 55 67 77 416 Kinder Trog, Whaley Waltz Latege (F) 72 50 60 69 64 71 386 Hobbsy 67 60 58 69 75 329 Buckden Pike, Hawkswick Stagger 41 47 38 67 61 61 315 MarkyMark 58 - 80 89 84 311 Castleton, Kinder Trog, Chrome Hill Rob Furness - 77 71 86 65 299 Marvin 75 70 80 73 298 James' Thorn Mrs Stagger (F) 54 40 63 55 54 266 sore legs 95 - 95 74 264 Pentyrch noel - - 80 - 92 90 262 Hes (F) - - 56 72 66 66 260 Lakeland 50 mrs noel (F) - - 70 82 86 238 DazTheSlug 40 - 38 51 54 40 223 Kinder Trog, Buttermere Horseshoe, Wasdale, Macc Forest, Great Hucklow, Old Crown Round, Salt Cellar, Cracken Edge, Long Tour Of Bradwell PaulE 77 65 76 218 Multiterrainer - 47 40 59 60 206 RachFR (F) 57 46 54 37 194 Eleanor (F) 62 60 34 36 192 Trog 81 - 71 152 MickTor 80 - 71 151 Vic Crescit - 41 49 54 144 Amex 40 34 43 10 17 144 lots! Stolly - - 64 78 142 L100 Mud 74 50 124 Joester - 65 49 114 Livi (F) 22 50 17 21 110 emmilou (F) 73 36 109 wycoller 46 33 29 108 lantern rouge 40 40 28 108 Langley Fete, Old Crown Round Athers 100 100 TheReverand 84 84 RaceTheSweeper 14 - 5 - 27 38 84 Wheeze 83 83 Hank 78 78 Saunders cyclops (F) 5 0 - 37 36 78 Denis Stitt, Wormstones, Round The Resers IanDarkpeak 67 67 superflyguy - 46 - 20 66 geronimo 50 50 Al Fowler that_fjell_guy dominion
On and off for some time now I've been racking my brains for a good scoring system for the forum champs that would favour everyone equally, regardless of their standard, and I think I've come up with a speck of an idea. Broadly speaking you get a point for doing better than last time and lose a point for doing worse. So, jumping forward to January 2014 (or back to the start of this year) you compare your percentile performance of your best race in the month to the percentile performance of your last. Lets say I came 80/200 in my last race (40%) and I came 70/200 in my current (best for the month) race (35%). For that I score +1 point and if things were the other way round I'd lose -1 point.
Therefore a forum champee over the year could get a very best, consistantly improving month by month, score of +12 and a worse possible score of -12. Now that could be fun? Food for thought for next year anyhow?
Depends whether a top runners or a local lad wins.
There must be better systems Stolly.
I think Stolly's method is better for not being dependent on whether a top runner or a local lad wins. In Stolly's system your score is down to relative position versus the entire field rather than just relative to the winner.
Of course 'Top runner' and 'local lad' are often one and the same - my April and June (so far) scores were in races won by Messrs Adams and Holmes respectively.
To be honest whether there are more or less elite runners in a race will be pretty irrelevant - you'd be largely comparing yourself with yourself. Under my proposed scoring system somebody winning each and every race wouldn't score any points because he/she'd never be improving over the previous raceOriginally Posted by Vic Crescit
Anyone running an ultra in Northamptonshire needs more than a few points on the forum champs board......:closed:
I'd have thought that the simplest criteria would be that only FRA or BOFRA races count, and not mountain marathon score type events? Or is that two too many rules ?
Let's not get too tied up with rules, it's all a bit of fun - isn't it? I think in the original discussion (18 months ago) about LDWA events it was suggested they should also meet FRA criteria of distance/ascent ratio, but I prefer the looser "anything you're not embarassed to claim on a fellrunning forum".
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