I was wondering why the Rules of Sailing as issued by ISF specifies equally that boats which are DNS, DNC, OCS, DNF, DSQ, BFD all get scored equally:

# boats entered in Series +1.

It seems that this places equal weight on someone that entered a race but failed to finish to someone who didn't leave the beach.

Thoughts or rationale to this scoring system?

I'd like to see us score such that if you enter a race (ie start) that you should be scored number of boats which started that race +1.