HOW TO SCORE USING APPENDIX A – GENERAL GUIDANCE How to score using Appendix A – General Guidance
1. Choose the appropriate wording to appear in the notice of race – see K13, Notice of Race Guide – and in the sailing instructions – see L17, Sailing Instructions Guide. If the series is to be scored by the Low Point System, Appendix A, with one discard, then the sailing instructions do not need to specify the scoring system, since this is the default (see rules 90.3 and A2). However, it does no harm to state the scoring system. State races to count. Some clubs like a different tariff of scores for non-finishing places, in particular scoring DNC more heavily to encourage participation.
2. The score for non-finishing places can change during a series if new boats can enter during the series (see rules A4.2 and A9); this is common in long club series (A9), affecting DNC scores. To avoid the need to recalculate, the sailing instructions can say that ‘The last sentence of rule A9 is replaced with: “A boat that did not come to the starting area shall be scored points decided by the race committee”.’ The race committee can then decide a value for this at the start of the series, being a number larger than the maximum expected series entry. Alternatively, give a fixed (but possibly heavier –see 1 above) value to DNC as with other non- finishing scores by saying: ‘The last sentence of rule A9 is replaced with: “A boat that did not come to the starting area shall be scored as if she did not start [+ n points].”
3. If scoring manually, apply rules A3, A4 and A5 to the results, in tabular form. The sequence is: • Take order of finish (non-handicap races) or elapsed times (handicap races).
• Correct elapsed times using handicap or rating factor (handicap or rating races only). Apply rounding if specified.
• Identify and score for DNC, DNS, OCS, BFD, RET and DNF (which includes those not finishing within a time limit if so provided in the sailing instructions).1 than a regatta’).
Use A4.2 for short series, A9 for long series (‘longer
• Rank remaining boats for their preliminary finishing places by: - Corrected times (handicap races only), otherwise - Finishing order.
• Assign points to preliminary finishing places based on the specified scoring system, breaking race ties (rule A7).2
• Identify and add penalty places to the preliminary finishing places for boats scored SCP or ZFP (do not change the scores of other boats – see rule A4.2).
• If appropriate, post preliminary results for the race and series (stated to be ‘subject to changes resulting from protests and requests for redress’).
• Remove the finishing place and change the score of boats that the protest committee instructs should be scored DSQ, DNE or DGM. The finishing places, and thus the scores, of boats with finishing places after the boat to be scored DSQ, DNE or DGM will also change – see rule A6.1. When a boat in that race has been scored SCP or ZFP it is important to remember that her score, which is her finishing place plus penalty places, will change only if her original finishing place was after that of the DSQ, etc, boat before it was removed – see rule A4.2 example.
1 In the absence of a sailing instruction to the contrary, a race committee must give a finishing place to any boat that starts and finishes as defined. If a boat is believed not to have sailed the right course before she finishes, as defined, a protest is required for her score to be changed.
Under the last sentence of rule A5 the race committee cannot disqualify her without a hearing nor score her DNF. 2 When races comprise the fleet split into two or more flights or groups, the results of which are then combined, there will be initially at least two boats with the same score for every place. These do not rank as ties to be broken.
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