Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Ranking notesI came across some discussion of national rankings on the USOF Yahoo group. I only read a couple of the posts but I think I got a sense of the discussion. While I'm not very interested in rankings, it is clear that some people are very interested in them.The discussion spurred a couple of thoughts about rankings. I'd like to see a ranking system where it was easy to calculate your points. It'd be nice if you could look at your results after a race and know how many points you earned. Can you do that under the current system? I don't know. I think a very simple system would be fine. Maybe give the winner on each age group 50 points, 45 for second, 40 for third, and so on (I realize this system doesn't recognize the level of competition). I'd like to see a ranking system that gave greater weight to championship events. The current system (if I understand it correctly) bases your points on results and level of competition. I'd go ahead and give extra credit for rankings earned at a national championship. You could arbitrarily inflate your points by a certain percent for championships. Maybe the top five at a national championship would get their calculated points + 10 percent. What is the point of the rankings? We don't have enough runners in the U.S. to need rankings to select runners for elite classes. The only prize based on rankings are little patches that USOF mails out every year or so. I guess the rankings are considered when national teams get selected, but I don't think the selections would be very different if you didn't have any rankings. posted by Michael | 8:10 PM 
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