Fleet racing in any boat is about going fast. Knowledge of the rules can help you to place yourself in the best position in a crowd, but generally speaking your odds of winning are better if you focus on getting out front and avoiding other boats like the plague (or an old wife, to borrow a phrase above).

Match racing and team racing put the emphasis on using your boat handling and rules knowledge to the forefront to control the competition. This concept works best with boats that are equal in speed, and that do not have dramatic acceleration capabilities, as it keeps the competition from being a runaway.

Statistically, it's probably like a 1 percenter game within our 1 percenter sport...

Mike