APPENDIX A
Appendix A – Scoring See also rules 44.3 and 90.3.
A1 NUMBER OF RACES
The number of races scheduled and the number required to be completed to constitute a series shall be stated in the notice of race or sailing instructions.
A2 SERIES SCORES A2.1 Each boat’s series score shall, subject to rule 90.3(b), be the total of her race scores excluding her worst score. (The notice of race or sailing instructions may make a different arrangement by providing, for example, that no score will be excluded, that two or more scores will be excluded, or that a specified number of scores will be excluded if a specified number of races are completed. A race is completed if scored; see rule 90.3(a)). If a boat has two or more equal worst scores, the score(s) for the race(s) sailed earliest in the series shall be excluded. The boat with the lowest series score wins and others shall be ranked accordingly.
A2.2 If a boat has entered any race in a series, she shall be scored for the whole series.
Rule 90.3(a) states that a race shall be scored if it is not abandoned and if one boat sails the course in compliance with rule 28 and finishes within the time limit, if any, even if she retires after finishing or is disqualified. Therefore, circumstances can theoretically arise when no boat receives a score for a finishing place, but the race is nevertheless ‘completed’ for the purposes of constituting a series – see rule A1. An abandoned race is not scored and therefore not completed. Normally, if race 5 (for instance) of a 10-race regatta is abandoned, the next race to be sailed will still be race 5 (and, as a result, race 10 may never be sailed). Care is needed over describing race prizes – is it a prize for race number x, or a prize for a race on a stated day?
A3 STARTING TIMES AND FINISHING PLACES
The time of a boat’s starting signal shall be her starting time, and the order in which boats finish a race shall determine their finishing places. However, when a handicap or rating system is used a boat’s corrected time shall determine her finishing place.
Rule A3 does not require corrected times to be rounded to the nearer second. That is a matter for the handicap or rating system to specify. IRC and Portsmouth Yardstick, for example, have a time-rounding rule. If you need to decide a rounding policy for your own handicap system, consider whether a decimal of a second of corrected time, as in the following example, is meaningful when it derives from elapsed times taken at the finishing line at best to the nearer second.
Example: Boat A is corrected to 1200.499 (etc) seconds, Boat B is corrected to 1199.5011 (etc) seconds. Without rounding, B gets the better place. If your handicap system states that corrected times are to be rounded to the nearer whole second, rounding 0.5 to the larger number, each time rounds to 1200 seconds, and the boats are tied for a place. Apply rule A7 to calculate their points for the tied place in that race. Rounding might be fairer, though it slightly increases the probability of a tie for a place.
A4 LOW POINT SYSTEM
The Low Point System will apply unless the notice of race or sailing instructions specify another system; see rule 90.3(a).
When the notice of race and sailing instructions are silent, the default is that the series will be scored by the Low Point System (see rule 90.3(a)), with one discard (see rule A2). If all races are to count, using Appendix A Scoring, this requires a notice of race or sailing instruction to that effect. No other scoring system appears in Appendix A and, if one is to be used, must be set out in full in the notice of race or sailing instructions.
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