2018 Summer Series
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We are happy to announce the return of the BAOC Summer Series. Similar to last year, this series of moderate-length events will be held from May through August on some of our more-urban and less-steep maps. Thus allowing us to continue orienteering, even during the hotter days of summer.
There will be six events this year, as listed below. Your best four of the six races will count toward your Summer Series Final Ranking.
Each event will include a "ranking" course (most likely in the form of a Middle-distance event, around 5 km), and another course more suitable for beginners. Some events may also include longer/alternative options for those folks not wanting to participate in the ranking event, and some events might offer more than one ranking course. See the webpage for each event for the details for that event.
All participants of the ranking events will be scored (on time) alongside each other in a single league, using a handicapping system to account for age and gender. This is the same scheme we used last year. The best four of six scores will be used in the final ranking. Credit will be given for Course Setting and Event Directing (so contact us now if you would like to earn some points this way!).
More details about event locations and specifics will be available over the next few weeks. See the individual event webpages linked below.
We look forward to seeing you out there!
– Your BAOC Event Coordination Team: George, Marie-Josée, Scott, Deron, and Graham
(April 4, 2018)
The Schedule
The Summer Series will include the following events:
- May 12: Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill (results)
- June 2: Presidio of San Francisco (Fort Scott), San Francisco (results)
- June 17: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (results)
- July 8: Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland (results)
- July 29: U.C. Berkeley Campus, Berkeley (results)
- August 26: Bedwell Bayfront Park, Menlo Park (results)
Note to Beginners
BAOC welcomes beginners to events with "clinics" that introduce orienteering and with "beginner" courses. We hope you will come to one or more of the Summer Series events (there is no requirement to attend all the events), and/or to our "regular" events listed in the schedule.
Important Note to All
Everyone must observe out-of-bounds areas indicated on the maps. Please note, in particular, that olive-green areas are out of bounds.
Failure to stay out of out-of-bounds areas could jeopardize our ability to get permission to hold events at the venue (as well as being unfair to those participants who go around the areas).
Some of the events will use maps with ISSOM (International Standard for Sprint Orienteering Maps [285KB] (http://orienteering.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/International-Specification-for-Sprint-Orienteering-Maps-2007_corrected-201211.pdf)) symbols, which indicate impassible features like fences, walls, or buildings. Note that the rules forbid crossing a wall or fence shown on the map as "impassible", even if it's physically possible to cross.
Scoring and Awards
To make things a little more interesting, participants can accumulate points throughout the series based on their results. Some of the best minds in the world's greatest database companies, and in the nation's finest research labs have deliberated carefully, and arrived at a scoring system for the Summer Series. (It's the same system that was used last year, crafted by François and Dennis.)
The scoring system for the Summer Series will combine all participants into one category by making adjustments, based on age and gender, to each person's performance. The person with the best adjusted performance in a given race will be awarded 1000 points. Everyone else will be awarded points in proportion to how their own adjusted performance compares to that of the person given 1000 points.
At each event in the Series, there will be an identified ranking course, which will be used for scoring. The other course(s) offered at the event will have no affect on the Series scoring.
Here are the details.
- We will use tables developed by USA Track and Field that make adjustments to 10 km road-race times based on age and gender.
- Each participant in the Summer Series has a fixed reference time based on those tables.
- For a given race, each person's adjusted performance ratio is calculated as their actual time for that race divided by their reference time.
- The person with the best adjusted performance ratio for the day is the leader and is awarded 1000 points.
- For anyone else, their point total is the leader's adjusted performance ratio divided by their own adjusted performance ratio, then multiplied by 1000, and rounded off to the nearest whole number.
This means it is possible for someone who finishes with the slowest legal time in a race to still have the highest point total for the day. So, don't give up!
Now that you've studied the methodology for scoring in minute detail, perhaps an example is in order.
- Suppose there is an event with just three people: a 45-year-old male who we'll call "F"; a 70-year-old male called "D", and a 25-year-old female called "T". Suppose their times on the course are as follows:
- F 45:51
- T 49:30
- D 57:20
- Given their ages and genders, their reference times are as follows. (Links to the USATF tables that we are using for reference times can be found here (http://runscore.com/Alan/AgeGrade.html). We're using the "10 km" column on the "AgeStdHMS" tab in the "Male Road (http://runscore.com/Alan/MaleRoadStd2015.xlsx)" and "Female Road (http://runscore.com/Alan/FemaleRoadStd2015.xlsx)" spreadsheets.)
- F 28:50
- T 30:20
- D 36:09
- Dividing course time by reference time gives the adjusted performance ratios for the course:
- F 1.59017
- T 1.63187
- D 1.58598
- So, D is the leader (despite having the slowest time) and gets 1000 points. To get the points for the others, divide their ratios into D's, multiply by 1000, and you get F with 997 points and T with 972.
Conclusion: If you want to win in the Summer Series, either (a) get fast, or (b) get old fast.
By popular demand, final standings will be based on each person's four best scores in the six-event Series.
For the record, note that François Léonard is the Official Scorer, so all queries and compliments should go to him. Complaints should be sent to DeptOfComplaints@whitehouse.gov.
We need to know everyone's age in order to make these calculations. As usual, your orienteering age is your age at the end of the calendar year. So what we really want is your year of birth. There will be sign-up sheets at either registration or at the E-punch download at each event. Please put down your name and year of birth.
Some "fine print":
- Everyone who has a valid finish for that day's full ranking course will be awarded points (except group entries will not earn points). However, to be eligible for the cumulative awards, you must be a BAOC member in good standing as of the date of the final event of the series.
- If you don't tell us your year of birth, we will assume you are a 21-year-old male. If you like that idea better than you like getting more points, well, that's up to you.
- If we find out your age after some of the point calculations have been made, we will try to go back and recalculate your point totals for the earlier events. In no case, though, will such retroactive point adjustments exceed 1000 points for a given race. (In other words, if you don't tell us your year of birth in time, and you should have been the leader that day, you won't quite get all the credit you might have gotten.)
- Course Setters for events in the Series will be given points for their own event equal to their best other point total in the series. Event Directors (some of whom may be able to run in their own event) will be given the higher of (a) their actual score in the event or (b) their best other point total in the series.
Final Series Results
The methodology of determining Summer Series points is explained above. In particular, note that group/team entries do not earn points, and 21-year-old male is assumed if we don't have a person's birth year ("M21" below).
As noted above, Event Directors and Course Setters receive credit for their service. Points earned by those credits are annotated with "cr" below.
- Event abbreviations:
- DVC = Diablo Valley College, SFP = San Francisco Presidio, GGP = Golden Gate Park, JMP = Joaquin Miller Park, UCB = U.C. Berkeley, BBP = Bedwell Bayfront Park
Num. Best Pl Name DVC SFP GGP JMP UCB BBP Total Runs Four 1 François Léonard 0 951 1000 1000 1000 3951 5 3951 2 Dennis Wildfogel 891 852 939 748 913 833 5176 6 3595 3 Rex Winterbottom 876 856 913cr 913 818 4376 5 3558 4 Tapio Karras 900 971 823 803 3497 4 3497 5 Daniel Šebo 818 899 899cr 851 789 4256 5 3467 6 Anastasiya Gordeeva 806 921 875 803 3405 4 3405 7 Chuck Spalding 908 852 773 845 743 4121 5 3378 8 Marie-Josée Parayre 838 0 858 845 703 3244 5 3244 9 Steve Haas 707 866 790 866cr 3229 4 3229 10 Riley Culberg 970 1000 983 2953 3 2953 11 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 682 790 707 564 2743 4 2743 12 Takashi Sugiyama 891 943 869 2703 3 2703 13 Evan Custer 645 602 677 514 2438 4 2438 14 George Minarik 655 638 557 576 2426 4 2426 15 Natalie Kim 540 737 455 670 2402 4 2402 16 Graham Brew 818 807 708 2333 3 2333 17 Deron van Hoff 738 792 769 2299 3 2299 18 Jeff Goodwin 841 0 633 768 2242 4 2242 19 Petr Horcicka 651 790 790cr 2231 3 2231 20 Derek Maclean 772 745 708 2225 3 2225 21 Lori Huberman 774 774cr 625 2173 3 2173 22 Bob Cooley 717 741 652 2110 3 2110 23 Scott Aster 458 529cr 500 529 378 2394 5 2016 24 Tori Borish 1000 995 1995 2 1995 25 Gary Kraght 678 651 652 1981 3 1981 26 Wayne Staats 707 798 408 1913 3 1913 27 Matthias Kohler 580 703 616 1899 3 1899 28 Quincy Rosenzweig 578 639 666 1883 3 1883 29 Vicky Woolworth 679 538 656 1873 3 1873 30 Misha Kreslavsky 1000 762 1762 2 1762 31 Stephanie Maclean 602 573 584 1759 3 1759 32 Julia Doubson 792 749 1541 2 1541 33 Werner Haag 754 773 1527 2 1527 34 Nancy Lindeman 371 360 398 273 1402 4 1402 35 Carlo Giacometti 750 633 1383 2 1383 36 Olga Kraght 480 358 530 1368 3 1368 37 Laurel Larsen 378 503 466 1347 3 1347 38 Eric Rosenzweig 755 584 1339 2 1339 39 Amalie Eartman 649 670 1319 2 1319 ("M21") 40 Gary Carpenter 652 538 1190 2 1190 41 Nick Corsano 576 546 1122 2 1122 42 Leslie Minarik 558 489 1047 2 1047 43 Siargey Pisarchyk 984 984 1 984 44 Mark Blair 441 540 981 2 981 45 Mikkel Conradi 977 977 1 977 46 Kevin Culberg 936 936 1 936 47 Stephen Granger-Bevin 919 919 1 919 48 Stephen Harrison 899 899 1 899 49 Erika Reed 546 341 887 2 887 50 Ann Marie Cody 877 877 1 877 51 Huon Wilson 847 847 1 847 52 Jonathan Owens 826 826 1 826 53 Michael Eartman 792 792 1 792 54 Marina Keating 431 360 791 2 791 55 Penny De Moss 775 775 1 775 56 Lubomir Šebo 769 769 1 769 57 Susan Kim 761 761 1 761 58 Joanna Merriss 760 760 1 760 59 Greg Khanlarov 755 755 1 755 60 Matej Šebo 732 732 1 732 61 Zach Lyons 723 723 1 723 62 Christine Brew 719 719 1 719 63 Steve Beuerman 385 332 717 2 717 63 Sam Coradetti 717 717 1 717 65 Rich Parker 714 714 1 714 66 Favor Greg 0 700 700 2 700 67 Abdullah Mourad 634 634 1 634 68 Dan Greene 589 589 1 589 69 Brad Wetmore 571 571 1 571 70 Carl Williams 556 556 1 556 71 Davy Williams 543 543 1 543 72 Zach Elian 529 529 1 529 73 Rosemary Johnson 493 493 1 493 74 Irena Stepanova 489 489 1 489 75 Denis Kourakin 480 480 1 480 76 Laura McKeegan 471 471 1 471 77 Emmett Howard 447 447 1 447 78 Linda Horcickova 432 0 432 2 432 79 Lisa Davis 372 372 1 372 80 Aviad Fuchs 348 348 1 348 81 Konkov Fyodor 0 0 0 2 0 81 Jeff Lanam ED 0 0 0 81 Theo Verhoven CS 0 0 0