Introduced such a system about five years ago. I can vouch for the fact that it works very well on a local basis. Good spread of boats winning races and fewer **ssed off sailors. The reason is someone listens to them and acts. It only takes someone to get off their backside, look at the local results and see what is happening. Get the participants then to agree to the adjustments and agree to reviews as appropriate.
The advantage is this system takes into account the local sailing environment and local sailors, after all this is where it is to take place and who it is to benefit. The only advantage of an inappropriate system is to the competitor with an under-rated boat.
Get your heads together at your local club and work on a proposal using last seasons results. Model these figures into the finishing times and look at the spread of results. Stop when happy and agreement is reached. If necessary shadow next series to verify new figures. What have you got to lose?
With time it could maybe be incorporated with other clubs data for regional figures.
Cheshirecatman
So your are measuring the boats and assigning a number then you're using your race results to fine tune the number? If you're not then it's sound like you're using DPN and then adjusting the number regionally. This has been done at lot of clubs for a long time and doesn't address a system used nationally. This thread was started in an effort to get one system globally your system could create hundreds of variants globally. Okay I'll come clean... I'm not a fan of tweaking the numbers regionally. It's a bit PHRFish and that my friend is word that needs to be censored.
SCHRS is used as base and default. It it used as a tool to correct anomalies found in club racing, usually with the extremes with smaller or larger more extreme cats. No rating system will ever be ideal and one design impractical at local level. So you either moan about it or do something. We decided to do something. It's not perfect and never will be. If someone considers a rating unfair it is reviewed objectively. As stated it is run locally for local sailors and appears to work in that no sailor goes out with the opinion he cannot win because of his rating.
Forget any preconceived ideas you have about national schemes and try it. Even if you only do it as a paper exercise you may actually see some benefit to it. If you don't you will be stuck with schemes you are not happy with based on wide data with possibly very little influence drawn from your local sailing situation.
You have a better solution?
Cheshirecatman
