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The OOD code is used in the SailWave race scoring program to score a boat that performs race committee duty. There are a number of ways of computing the points assigned to the OOD code, as mentioned previously. I recently have looked at 4 of these methods (click on blue hyperlink to open season results scored as described):
- OOD scores the average of all races that are counted (i.e., not counting discarded races in the average)
- Average of all races in series (i.e., no races are left out of the average calculation)
- Average of all races competed (i.e., DNC races not included in the average)
- 1st place for R/C duty
The 1st of these methods was used in 2018. The 3rd method was used in 2017 and the 2nd in 2016 and in some prior years. I think just scoring the boat a DNC has been used in the past, as well. J24 Fleet 43 uses the 4th method for its Wednesday Evening Series.
The only method that has a significant effect on the 2018 season results is method 4 – giving the R/C duty boat a 1st place. The other methods do affect the total points, but do not change the 2018 season rankings significantly, as best as I can tell. Method 1 does reward the R/C boat more than the other methods except for that of awarding a 1st place, which seems a bit over-generous. Method 4 also effectively penalizes any boat who does not do race committee duty, maybe because the weather did not permit a race to be held.
So, I believe the OOD score that we used in 2018 (i.e., the average of the counted races) is the right one to use. It provides good incentive to be race committee, but does not unduly skew the results. Awarding a 1st place as is done in J24 Fleet 43 seems too much of a scoring benefit that can easily skew the results. Whatever method is agreed upon, it should be documented in the SI or NOR, as appropriate.