2000 BAOC Advanced Rankings
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Annual rankings summarize the year's competition. Accordingly, below are the rankings and commentary for the 2000 Brown, Green, Red, and Blue courses. Every club member with at least four runs on their advanced color course at a club ranking event during the year should appear on a ranking list. Scores of runners with only three runs or who stepped down are listed below the official list. Brown is an exception in that it is not restricted to age groups.
The methodology, which has been in use for several years, is also included. The significance and some of the shortcomings of the rankings was discussed in the 1999 rankings, as were the criteria for ranking events.
While no system can be perfect, the results can be fairly reliable by using the best data and reasonable subjective judgment. I hope you find them interesting and accurate and perhaps a basis for evaluating your own 2000 performance and goal setting for 2001. Hopefully, these lists will give a good sense of how competitors would stack up at a fair competition where everyone ran their typical 2000 race. Please send me any comments, questions, or suggestions.
See also the unofficial 2000 Advanced Long List, which compares performances on different courses based on scores from the four ranking lists. (Club membership is not a criterion to be on the Advanced Long List.)
The ranking lists are also posted on the technical pages at my Website, along with results from previous years.
Brown
The Brown course is essentially an all-comers course in that very few of the participants are in the corresponding USOF age groups. It is not unusual for the leaders to be well-qualified Green runners recovering from injury or otherwise finding reason to get in a minimum number of runs on the course during the year. 1998 and 1999 saw Dennis Wildfogel finish on top. This year it is George Minarik, who, incidentally, came back at the end of the year with a good showing on Green. He won two of his five Brown races to finish over 20 points ahead of second-place Scott Aster. Harold DeMoss, the lone "legitimate" Brown runner (M65) repeats his fourth rank of last year.
Runs Score
1 Minarik George 5 105.8
2 Aster Scott 3 82.9
3 VanHoff Deron 6 81.4
4 DeMoss Harold 5 80.4
5 Kirschenbaun Lief 7 74.9
6 Maclean Stephanie 7 72.5
7 Freund Dwight 4 68.8
8 Ilmarinen Heini 4 63.8
9 Lee Vivian 7 60.1
10 Young Michael 5 59.0
11 Roos Joan 7 56.9
12 Meredith David 4 52.9
13 Shakhnovsky Oleg 4 50.9
14 Minarik Leslie 4 50.8
15 Seaman Jill 4 50.4
16 Johnson Rosemary 6 48.5
17 Gerstner Meg 4 48.4
18 Shirley Christine 6 38.4
19 Lindeman Nancy 12 32.7
20 French Dean 4 32.6
Glendinning Alan 3 89.8
Jacobs Marsha 3 66.4
Wolfe Abby 2 53.8
Tresan Colombe 3 52.5
Madrid Louise 3 41.6
White Susan 3 38.7
Green
The Green rankings have been missing something the last four years or so: the name of Gary Carpenter who, but for devoting his attention to Red and Blue courses, would most likely have been the man to beat on Green. This summer he put together a string of high scoring runs on Green, leaving him 5 points clear of Hannu Haarma, not an easy job with Hannu winning six of his ten races. But Gary won three of his five and was second in his other two. Significantly, Gary topped Hannu in two of their three head-to-head meetings at Tahoe.
Anneliese Steuben moved up from her second-place Brown ranking last year to fifth on Green with 93.4 points. That makes her the top Green woman, 10 points ahead of Sarah Minarik.
Runs Score
1 Carpenter Gary 5 115.6
2 Haarma Hanu 10 105.5
3 Wildfogel Dennis 9 100.2
4 Custer Evan 6 94.9
5 Steuben Anneliese 9 93.4
6 Scarborough Joe 11 92.8
7 Spalding Chuck 9 87.9
8 Cooley Bob 6 85.4
9 Minarik Sarah 4 83.1
10 Minarik George 5 79.1
11 Glendinning Alan 4 77.3
12 Fleishman Michael 8 75.3
13 DeMoss Harold 7 69.0
14 Wojtowicz Debbie 9 66.5
15 Goss Gerry 7 65.8
16 Verhoevan Theo 5 64.6
17 Clemo Patty 7 64.5
18 Hintz Stew 10 63.6
19 Wolfe Abby 10 62.8
20 Lewis Robert 9 61.6
21 Williams Rob 4 60.8
22 Goss Stacy 9 60.4
23 Hoare Phillip 9 58.0
24 Minarik Leslie 5 55.2
25 Shakhnovsky Oleg 5 54.4
26 Madrid Louise 6 53.3
27 Lanam Jeff 11 51.2
28 Revenko Victor 7 47.5
29 Petersen Janet 4 46.5
30 Johnson Rosemary 5 44.4
31 Beuerman Steve 10 44.3
32 DuPertuis Lucy 4 44.2
Fjellbirkeland Lars 3 105.1
Jankowski Steve 6 94.5
Weber Nik 7 88.8
Taylor Chris 6 87.7
Tresan Blake 5 87.2
Wilson James 5 83.3
Papendick Bill 3 76.6
Martin, Adrian 3 76.1
Jorgensen David 3 75.1
MacLean Stephanie 3 64.8
Jacobs Marsha 3 61.3
Strak Bill 3 60.0
Jacobi Chris 3 56.1
Marshall John 3 54.8
Red
The continuing battle for first between Kent Ohlund and Tapio Karras was well into its fifth year when Neal Barlow decided to jump into the action. At the end of the year, it was Kent Ohlund on top again, the fourth time in the last five years, and Neal in second off four solid runs at Burton Creek, China Camp, and Montebello. Tapio had his usual prolific season, with 13 runs at ranking events and six wins, and again was only a couple of points out of first. His most notable victory was day two at Burton Creek, when he came in three minutes ahead of Neal. But the head-to-head record repeated the story: Kent in first, 2-0 against Neal and 3-2 against Tapio. Neal beat Tapio 2-1.
Penny DeMoss, after leading last year's Green list, takes 10th on Red to replace Angelica Riley as the top BAOC woman.
Runs Score
1 Ohlund Kent 7 102.3
2 Barlow Neal 4 100.2
3 Karras Tapio 13 99.8
4 Gregg Steve 4 98.8
5 Kohler Matthias 11 94.6
6 Wyatt-Mair Gavin 4 87.9
7 Carpenter Gary 6 86.1
8 Willecke Ralf 9 85.9
9 DeMoss Penny 5 85.4
10 Tidswell Ian 5 84.0
11 Greene Dan 7 83.5
12 Wells Kelly 7 80.3
13 Sherwood Chris 4 77.3
14 Weber Nik 7 76.8
14 Petersen Mark 5 76.8
16 Papendick Bill 6 76.1
17 Rosenzweig Eric 7 74.3
18 Pinkham Tony 8 74.1
19 Cooley Bob 4 69.2
20 Larsen Shawn 7 68.6
21 Jaehn Rod 5 64.3
22 Blair Mark 15 63.4
23 Green Russell 7 62.5
24 Graube Peter 6 62.3
25 Schoenfeld Kevin 11 61.5
26 Aster Scott 3 58.9
27 Rice Mark 7 50.7
Maclean Derek 12 99.4
Bassett Bruce 3 71.7
Masalkovas Andrejus 3 50.0
Blue
The top seven on this year's Blue list are in pretty much the same order as last year. James Scarborough repeats as BAOC's top male, with wins in seven of his nine ranking runs. James' best runs, most likely were as the top BAOC runner over the two days at Burton Creek, finishing 10 minutes clear each day against all of the club's best. Dan Stoll-Hadayia handed James one of his rare club losses, nipping him by eight seconds at Sunol. Dan moves from third to second as Panu Haaramo's DQs caught up with him. Panu dropped from second last year down to ninth, as three of his six runs were scored as DQ.
The man to watch on Blue is fast-improving Syd Reader. He moved ahead of Wyatt Riley by nearly four points into third place and within only a half point of Dan. Dan and Syd traded victories in their head-to-head races during the first half of the year but Syd's impovement was evident finishing ahead of Dan the last four of the year.
Runs Score
1 Scarborough James 9 99.7
2 Stoll-Hadayia Dan 11 90.6
3 Reader Syd 12 90.1
4 Riley Wyatt 7 86.2
5 Stein Doug 12 84.3
6 Graeve Thorsten 11 83.1
7 Gregg Steve 9 81.9
8 DeMoss Penny 8 67.1
9 Haaramo Panu 6 65.4
10 Wyatt-Maier Gavin 9 62.0
11 Winterbottom Rex 10 61.5
12 Springer Mike 7 59.3
13 Boughner Van 6 57.2
14 Graube Peter 5 54.3
15 Dreyfuss David 4 50.5
Lewis Jeff 3 76.4
Ramsey Ian 3 75.5
Masalkovas Vadimas 3 56.6
Methodology
Ranking events are those BAOC meets with:
- Suitable terrain and maps
- Courses according to USOF A or B meet standards
- Adherence to principals of challenge and fairness
2000 ranking events
Joe Grant (2), Briones, Sunol, Annadel, Indian Valley, Spooner Lake, Saw Mill Flat, Burton Creek (2), China Camp, Big Basin, Montebello, Tamarancho, Calero.
Event score
Scores are assigned based on the competitor's time in relation to the average of the times of the top three ranked runners in the race. Event scores are weighted based on the average prior year points of the top three ranked runners in the race. Scores and times of runners stepping down do not enter into the computations. DQs (OT, DNF, MSP) are assigned a running time of 3:20. Only BAOC club members are ranked.
Stepping down
Runners in on a course below that of their USOF category will be considered stepping down if they had an annual ranking of 80 points or more during the current or previous ranking year.
Annual score
The average of the best four event scores constitute a person's annual ranking. If a runner has more than four scores, the best 4/5, 5/6, 5/7, 6/8, 6/9, 7/10, 7/11, etc., are averaged. A meet director or course setter of a ranking event(s) may receive one credit day for a fourth day if needed.
