Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, October 08, 2002 Spiking controlsThe training log at Attackpoint let's you enter the number of controls you found and the number you spiked.I looked at all the current entries to see how often people say they've spiked controls. Here are the hit rates (percent of controls spiked) for the last week: 90, 78, 65, 86, 84, 92, 83, 66, 78, 89, 91, 90, 79, 100, 69 and 92. The average of those numbers is 83. I don't usually count spiked controls. But if I did, I'd probably spike about 30-40 percent. I must: (a) Be a much worse map reader than most people at Attackpoint, or (b) Use a different definition of "spike." I suspect (hope) the answer is (b). It looks like people are considering a control as "spiked" if it isn't a boom.** To me, a control isn't a spike unless it is almost perfect. I've got to have good "flyt" and not hesitate. In most cases, I'd have to see the control (or the feature and know the control was at the feature) from a long way away -- as soon as reasonably possible -- to consider a control a spike. By my definition, I can have a control where I don't lose any time, but I don't consider it a spike. I guess I really have three ways of grading a control -- a spike, a boom and something in between. "Something in between" is quite common and is reasonably good; perhaps even as fast as a spike. But, "something in between" isn't as good as a spike. I need to come up with a better name than "something in between." ** By the way, the Finnish term for boom is "pummi." posted by Michael | 6:53 PM 
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