BAOC 2007 Sprint Series
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Cumulative standings will be divided into all USOF age classes and genders (although it is not expected that Event Directors will format their results in any special way—I will sort that out).
Currently, these events with qualifying Sprints are planned:
- Jan 21 – U.C. Berkeley (results)
- Feb 24 – Emerald Hills (results)
- Mar 18 – Point Pinole (results)
- Apr 29 – Stanford University (results)
- May 19 – Indian Valley (results)
We are trying to schedule events at Lake Vasona, Lake Elizabeth, and other venues as well. If you can help with course-setting or directing and have a site in mind, contact (Rex).
The finale will be May 19 at Indian Valley. Anyone can participate, even if they haven't run enough qualifying races. There will be 4 sprints featuring head-to-head excitement—it will likely be mini-mass starts of 4 people each. Cumulative standings from the series will determine seeding, and there will be brackets of 16 runners each. A first bracket, a second bracket, and more—enough brackets to accommodate all participants. Anyone without enough qualifying races will be put into the last brackets. Each person will run 4 sprints averaging 1.5 km each. I will try to keep the lag-time between your runs low, and offer great spectating of the runners and the excitement as the courses weave in and out of the campus and its wilder surroundings.
So how will points be awarded at each sprint? The best runner on each Sprint gets 1 point. Then every other runner is awarded a percentage based on their time compared to the winner's time. If the winner finishes in 15 minutes, and you finish in 30 minutes, then you get 0.5 point. If the winner finishes in 18 minutes, and you finish in 24 minutes, then you get 0.75 point. This is different than the system that Peter Gagarin uses for the U.S. Sprint Series (http://www.sprintseries.org), but keep in mind that results for probably all of the BAOC events will be reported to his standings as well, just using a different tally.
Your standing in the BAOC series is determined by the average of your best races. The more races we have, the more will count. If it's 4, then your best 3 will count. If it's 5, then your best 3. If it's 6, then your best 4. If 7, then your best 4. If 8, then your best 5. So given a certain number of races, the lesser number is the minimum you need to run to qualify for a seeded spot in the finale at Indian Valley and the overall club sprint championship. If you course-set for a Sprint event, you are awarded the same amount of points as your best race, and it counts as one of your races for qualifying purposes.
The Indian Valley results will determine the champion in each class. Winners will receive tremendous recognition, certificates, and hopefully medals or T-shirts. We have some time to cook up an attractive and feasible package. It might be built into the price of the Indian Valley event, e.g., a surcharge of $5 for Sprint competitors only to cover the costs of the goodies. Please contact me with your ideas of what you think would be good awards for this.
April 6 Update
There are two more qualifying events for the Sprint series:
- Tomorrow at Golden Gate Park (results)
- April 29 at Stanford (results)
The current standings are available here (http://whatitiz.biz/baoc/sprint_series/2007/standings.html).
Your score for each race is how fast you were compared to the winner—I divided the winner's time by your time. So the winner gets 1 (100%), and if you're twice as much time as the winner, you get 0.5 or 50%.
Then I averaged your 3 best scores. If you do not have 3 sprints and 3 scores, then your average was brought down by 1 or 2 zero scores.
Since there will be a total of 7 races (Berkeley, Emerald Hills, 2 sprints at Pt. Pinole, Roberts, Golden Gate Park, and Stanford) I will take your best 4 races when figuring seedings for the Sprint Champs at Indian Valley May 19th.
So if you run 3 sprints, and win each one, but don't have a 4th, which counts as zero, your average will be 0.75 and you will be seeded lower, possibly out of the championship flight. So it's to your advantage to run sprints at the final two events and get the highest average possible.
I haven't done any age/gender differentiation in the standings yet; this will happen closer to the championship. For now, you probably know who you'd like to compare yourself with, if you do that sort of thing.
I haven't run super well myself in the series, so it must look strange for me to be second place (they must think the guy who made up this system designed it for himself). Well, I was 2nd to Eric, fairly close, at one sprint, and with the Course Setter's bonus, I get to use that score twice. Next time, with four scores being averaged, I should fall lower into the pack, unless I do dramatically well tomorrow. Plus, if some of the ringers with only two sprints show up well at the last two sprints, it will make the standings more representative of the club's performance, I think. All course setters, including Vlad (who I credited ahead of time for course setting tomorrow) and Steve Gregg and Steve Beuerman have received their best run score duplicated.
Regards, Rex
April 28 Update
Standings have been updated to include Golden Gate Park, but not to include 4 sprints yet. After I figure Stanford in, it will be based on 4 Sprints.
Nonetheless, a few people like Martin and Mikkel moved up. James has 2 perfect scores (wins) but not 3 sprints yet.
The current standings are available here (http://whatitiz.biz/baoc/sprint_series/2007/standings.html).
It might make the seedings more reasonable for the May 19th Sprint Champs if some of those (like James) who won't be able to get 4 sprints, but have 3 already, to run a fourth. Also, it would give others a chance to have a higher average.
Rex
May 1 Update
Everybody qualifies and can participate in the club Sprint championships May 19th at Indian Valley.
The Sprint standings only determine your seeding within your age/gender category.
If you are coming, or even just thinking about coming to the May 19th event, I would like to know now the following information. Please send it to me by .
- Name:
- USOF Age/Gender class (like F21 or M60 or F10):
- Percent chance I will attend May 19th:
- If you would like to have another Sprint race to improve your average, this might happen or be possible. Check off which dates you could attend a barebones, small attendance sprint event:
- ___ Thursday evening, May 10th
- ___ Thursday evening, May 17th
Current Standings
The current standings include 7 races.
- Your best 4 of 7 count.
- If you don't have 4 scores, your average will be lower.
- If you only have 3 races, your score will be about 0.25 less than it should be.
- If you only have 2 races, your score will be about 0.5 less than it should be.
- If you only have 1 race, your score will be about 0.75 less than it should be.
- The following individuals have received their best score duplicated from course setting or event directing: Rex Winterbottom (both U.C. Berkeley and Roberts, so 2 different scores were duplicated), Steve Beuerman, Steve Gregg, Vladimir Gusiatnikov, Matthias Kohler, and Chuck Spalding.
The following standings are updated to reflect the Stanford event scores:
1 Eric Bone 1.0 2 Rex Winterbottom 0.9932 3 Mikkel Conradi 0.9429 4 Benjamin Legg 0.9415 5 Syd Reader 0.936 6 Tapio Karras 0.8711 7 Russell Neilson 0.8531 8 Dennis Wildfogel 0.8177 9 Andrejus Masalkovas 0.8035 10 Derek Maclean 0.7937 11 Steve Gregg 0.7912 12 Greg Khanlarov 0.741 13 Kent Ohlund 0.737 14 Martin Kunz 0.7135 15 George Minarik 0.7114 16 Peter Graham 0.7024 17 Dan Greene 0.6989 18 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 0.6818 19 Chuck Spalding 0.6703 20 Wesley Willett 0.6524 21 Bob Cooley 0.6397 22 Manfred Kopisch 0.627 23 Matthias Kohler 0.6107 24 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 0.6046 25 Bob Strauss 0.5647 26 Brad Wetmore 0.5625 27 Robin Gustaffson 0.5368 28 Stephanie Maclean 0.5309 29 Terry Farrah 0.5053 30 James Scarborough 0.5 31 Jeff Lanam 0.4866 32 Jason Hogan 0.4824 33 Francois Leonard 0.4774 34 Eric Rosenzweig 0.4625 35 Jean-Charles Baritaux 0.4295 36 Bjorn Widerstrom 0.4109 37 Ido Green 0.4053 38 Joe Scarborough 0.4028 39 Steve Beuerman 0.3965 40 Frederick Lee 0.335 41 Oleg Shakhnovsky 0.3249 42 Jennifer Kerr 0.3217 43 Pete Olsten 0.3068 44 Marie-Josee Parayre 0.2853 45 Viktor Passinsky 0.2631 46 Joe Maffei 0.253 47 Morten Bostrom 0.2482 48 Mark Prior 0.2459 49 Julia Doubson 0.2446 50 Vadimas Masalkovas 0.2408 51 Evan Custer 0.2313 52 Brian Kirshner 0.2301 53 Dag Ainsoo 0.2297 54 Jari Ikaheimonen 0.2284 55 Rick Baraff 0.2207 56 Trinka Gillis 0.2073 57 Oren Rigbi 0.2005 58 Johan Heiber 0.1953 59 Mitsumi Sugizaki 0.1944 60 Anja Kahampaeae 0.1941 61 Robert Lewis 0.1914 62 Tomer Maymon 0.1891 63 Terry Gleason 0.1765 64 James Wilson 0.1701 65 Sean Campbell 0.1684 66 Jim Fish 0.1673 67 Anand Varma 0.1616 68 Shura Krechetov 0.1453 69 Stefan Stefanov 0.1273 70 Fyodor Konkov 0.1193 71 Tatiana Fedyk 0.1142 72 Joan Roos 0.1076 73 Thierry Legall 0.1064 74 Marsha Jacobs 0.0985 75 Jamie Caplinger 0.0982 76 Dwight Freund 0.0966 77 Daniel Kopisch 0.0963 78 Margaret Longstreth 0.0917 79 Laura McKeegan 0.0847 80 Shirley Pierce 0.0757 81 Rosemary Johnson 0.0692 82 Terri Hunt 0.0633 83 Bronwen Caplinger 0.0612 84 Nancy Lindeman 0.0599 85 Dean French 0.0586