{"id":537,"date":"2009-10-19T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=537"},"modified":"2009-10-22T17:32:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T22:32:36","slug":"new-formula-for-season-points-in-sanctioned-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"New Formula for Season Points in Sanctioned Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current system of awarding points by the WUSPBA (and seemingly EUSPBA is similar) is:<\/p>\n<p>(Points per competition) = (Number of Competitors) &#8211; (Placing &#8211; 1)<\/p>\n<p>I say a better formula is:<\/p>\n<p>(Points per competition) = (Number of Competitors)*(1\/Placing)<\/p>\n<p>Note, only the top 6 places are awarded points. Everybody else gets zero points. Also, piobaireachd is worth double points.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, as an example, this is how the top 40 in Grade III in the EUSPBA would be reorganized based on my new formula.<\/p>\n<p>Old Rank &#8211; Name and Branch &#8211; Old Points &#8211; # Comps &#8211; New Points &#8211; Old Pts\/# Comps &#8211; New Pts\/# Comps<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/euspbagr3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-538\" title=\"euspbagr3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/euspbagr3-300x282.png\" alt=\"euspbagr3\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/euspbagr3-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/euspbagr3.png 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current system of awarding points by the WUSPBA (and seemingly EUSPBA is similar) is: (Points per competition) = (Number of Competitors) &#8211; (Placing &#8211; 1) I say a better formula is: (Points per competition) = (Number of Competitors)*(1\/Placing) Note, only the top 6 places are awarded points. Everybody else gets zero points. Also, piobaireachd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Formula for Season Points in Sanctioned Competitions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}