Personal performance handicaps are in wide use around the world to enable teams of diverse skill levels to compete on a level basis.Similar to golf handicaps, personal performance handicaps in sailboat racing are derived based on past performance. To date, personal performance handicaps have been derived from, and applied to, a boat’s elapsed time around the course. Fleet 27 is experimenting with a new and unique personal performance handicap system derived solely from historical finish positions, called the Z-Score Handicap.
Z-Score handicap results for Race #3 are now posted on the race results page. A couple races are needed before the handicap system is seeded with sufficient information to calculate relative positions.