Shanklin Sailing Club

The racing results software I have written now copes with handicaps using the SCHRS as well as Portsmouth Yardstick if required.

I have re-entered the results for the 2009 regatta races and they seem to come out in roughly the same order as before.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/race ... ries_id=87
http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/race ... ries_id=86

Keith has come up with a valid point regarding the SCHRS.
See your emails.

I think I have more or less finished the software for racing results. Anybody with access to the admin section can now add, edit and delete series and do the same for sailors in the database.

The big test will come in three weeks time but I am quietly confident it is going to work.

If any other sailing clubs are interested in the software please give me a call on 01983 721264.

Lets wait untill we start then we can celibrate.
Realy need a handicap race to prove things.

ChrisR wrote:Lets wait untill we start then we can celibrate.
Realy need a handicap race to prove things.

That's not the attitude that won us an empire.

That's where I am going wrong, I would just like to win a rece, sod the empire, we will leave that race to Keith

I have updated the race series page so it shows the latest races: http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/series.php (as long as we remember to put a date on).

There is also a new RSS feed for the racing results: http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/race-results.xml .

Where did the junior cup come from?

ChrisR wrote:Where did the junior cup come from?

Last year.

However there is a bug in the RSS feed - it is currently showing series results, not race results.

Bug fixed.

ChrisR wrote:Where did the junior cup come from?

To avoid confusion the web page will now only show races in the current year.

In expectation of a squeaky tight finish in the Tuesday Afternoon Series I have updated the racing results software to count back the best two discards and order results accordingly.

Positions will be defined by number of points after all discards, number of points after one less discard, number of points after 2 less discards.

If that doesn't separate Geoff and Keith then they will have to have a "who can piss the highest" competition to decide the winner.

How wonderful technology is, I received notification of this post by Twitter, Geoff probably thinks it comes from a bird, Erling would be dumbfounded which will probably give Keith a chance as he knows more than the rest about computers.

He's got a computer on board?

I have added a statistics facility to the race results software. Just click in your name in the race pages and you can see some details such as number of wins and average points.

forum_admin wrote:I have added a statistics facility to the race results software. Just click in your name in the race pages and you can see some details such as number of wins and average points.

Getting very technical now

Discarded points are now scored through in a different colour to the number. I did this because it wasn't clear whether 4s were discarded or not.

Added some graphs of the last 30 races for each helmsman. Just click on the names in the results pages.

I have added all of the 2008 racing results to the database.

What happened to 2009 & 2010

ChrisR wrote:What happened to 2009 & 2010

They were there anyway.

Those of you that subscribe to the RSS feeds may have noticed all the results being resent to you. This is because I have renamed all the files to be more friendly.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/race ... ries_id=25
can now be viewed at
http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/race ... Series.php

As Shanklin Sailing Club is not very competitive, I thought I would add something to the site to give people more incentive.

I have made a table of average scores for the last two years' results. This is slightly different from the averages on individuals' pages as this shows races started instead of completed.

As soon as the first results of 2011 go on the site it will show 2010 and 2011.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/whoishot.php

Why not call it WhoIsHot instead of points average.

ChrisR wrote:Why not call it WhoIsHot instead of points average.

Do you think Geoff is hot then?

I have made a page ranking helmsmen by number of firsts, seconds and thirds.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/medalstable.php

2007 racing results are now on the database so you can see the medals table and average points for that year.

Now that Chris is on a three day week, perhaps he might like to volunteer to add 2006 to the database.

Big up Chris for putting the 2006 results on the web site.

Not all up yet

Now that there are five years' of statistics on the site, I have added a second graph to the helmsman pages showing averages over the five years.

The garish colours are generated randomly.

I have added a third graph to the helmsmen's pages showing firsts, seconds and thirds over the five years we have results for.

Point me in the direction of the helmsman page

If you go to any results page that contains names, you can click on the names to see more details.

For instance the points page has a list of all the regular sailors: http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/whoishot.php

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/helm ... s_Read.php

Can this software be run from disk/exe file?????

No, it's all in the cloud. But that means that it will work on any internet enabled device, not just a Windows PC.

ChrisR wrote:Can this software be run from disk/exe file?????

How would other would be interested parties e.g.:Clubs be able to access/purchase the scoring system.

ChrisR wrote:How would other would be interested parties e.g.:Clubs be able to access/purchase the scoring system.

They would call 01983 721264 and ask for Liam.

Well , I can now see clearly how bad things have got. I think I will take up a new hobby. May be Knitting or something sumilar !

If my understanding of the Pro Am series is correct then the the software is now ready for it.

The software is also ready for the Southern Championships. I have kept it completely separate from our own results so it will not effect the medals table and averages.

I think it is a very accurate and wonderful tool.

Some of the more eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed the Pursuit results for 2011 were upset by Keith and John getting average points and not having a total to average. This bug has now been fixed and Sean has now returned to the top of the table.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/race ... Series.php

Tie breaks

I have tweaked the racing software to deal with tie breaks.

Race series are now decided by the following criteria.

Lowest number of series points after discards are removed.
Number of firsts.
Number of seconds.
Number of thirds.
Lowest number of series points counting the best discard.
Lowest number of series points counting the two best discards.
Lowest number of series points counting all discarded points.
Position in last race in series.

Firsts, seconds, thirds and last result are regardless of whether they are discarded or not.

Hope that is OK with the VC.

The changes only show if I update a series.

Two changes that occur due to this system are Mark Pritchard is third in the Bang and Go Back series rather than joint third with myself, and Simon Giles no longer shares the 2010 Ventnor Race with Erling Holmberg but wins outright.

I have tweaked it further so best result in series is now counted after number of thirds.

It is an amazing effort - thank you very much Liam.

Points averages for Picos and Sprint 15 races are now split for the two classes.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/whoi ... ?year=2011

Our racing results software is now being used by Brading Haven Yacht Club

http://results.bhyc.org.uk/

Do the sailing club get commission?

Erling H wrote:Do the sailing club get commission?

The club get commission fully commensurate with the amount of help they gave with the coding.