Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 C is for CheatingOrienteers cheat. Not all of us. But some do. Attackpoint has recently had a couple of lively discussions of doping and cheating (mostly following).I think you could get rid of a lot of following, if you (i.e. as a federation and as organizers of races) put some effort in to it. Here is one way you could do it: 1. Look for following. Following is pretty easy to spot if you look at split times. You could develop a pretty good definition of "probable following" and use a computer to identify likely followers. 2. When you find it, warn the follower. When the organizers identify a "probable follower" (using analysis of split times), you'd give that person a warning. 3. Take some sort of positive action to make it harder for that person to follow in the future. Anyone who has been warned would be treated differently, give them a start time that makes it harder for them to follow. 4. Penalize them for repeat violations. If split times show them following again (within a given time period, maybe a year), penalize them. You could add time or whatever. Something like this wouldn't eliminate cheating. But it'd make it a lot harder. It might be more trouble than it is worth...or it might not. Of course you'd keep all of the other things in place to prevent following; like rules against following, start intervals, butterfly loops, etc. As an aside, I think the way to prove that someone followed is much the same as the way you prove a lot of financial fraud. In many (maybe even most) financial frauds that result in proof of fraud, the proof is simple. The fraudster admits they committed the fraud. It isn't simple to get an admission. But auditors who specialize in fraud have a pretty powerful set of tools. For something completely different...check out Kim Fagerudd's new web page Check out Kim Fagerudd and Salla Sukki's web page (all in Swedish, but worth a look for the maps even if you can't read the language). They've had a page for a good year or so, but this is a new and improved version. Kim has started keeping his training log on the web page. It'll be fun to see how his training goes. posted by Michael | 8:20 PM 
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