Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, August 09, 2004 Setting goals for WOCAt the team trials the U.S. selected the WOC team and had a meeting where the team talked about goals. I think that's great. I'm a big fan of having the team having some goals. I think paying attention to goals and results can only help improve performance over time. If nothing else, it makes it more fun to follow the WOC.Brian May spent some time putting together a simple method for aggregating results for each nation. You can read the discussion at Attackpoint and see his calculations for the 1993 and 2003 WOCs. While no method is going to be perfect, Brian's approach is fairly easy to calculate and gives a nice summary of how every nation did. To look at a nation's development over time you could either look at the overall ranking or make some adjustments for the number of events and compare a nation's score over time. One problem -- not much of a problem, really -- is that calculating the scores isn't easy if you don't have a spreadsheet. Actually, it isn't hard to do by hand it just takes a bit of time. It'd be nice if you could look at the results board at the end of a WOC race and quickly figure out how many points you've scored. You could get pretty close by subrtracting each runner's place from the total number of starters in the race, then summing those scores for a nation. For example, if the sprint final had 45 runners and the U.S. had runners who finished 20th, 25th and 30th, the U.S. scores would be 45-20=25 plus 45-25=20 plus 45-30=15. The U.S. total would then be 25+20+15=60 points. That's simple to calculate without a spreadsheet. I think Brian's approach is quite nice and is a good complement to a peer nations approach. posted by Michael | 9:35 PM 
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