Reply To: Scoring procedure for the daily Most Improved award

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So, we did change the SI’s for the 2019 season to award “Most Improved” to the boat whose night’s combined ranking is most improved compared to its ranking the previous weeknight (not its season ranking through the previous week).

Issues with this approach, as I see them:

1) If boat is DNC the previous week, it is ignored. Seems like its DNC rank should count, and provide the base for the calculation.
2) Too many “Most Improved” awards to the top boats. If we revert to a comparison of the boat’s nightly ranking compared to its position in the season standings, then it should be more likely that a lower ranked boat will get the award. At least there are more positions ahead of it to be captured.
3) What about the RC duty boat scored with OOD code? They currently are ignored the week following RC duty. They should figure into the competition somehow, which if the comparison was done to their season rank through the previous week, they would figure into the mix.