Thought I would throw this out there. Should I continue to post scores by Time or should I instead use Rank? I noticed the order would have changed for April's shoot.
If you don't shoot all the time with a club. Rank scoring will really hurt your standings. Many times we have been faster in time at other clubs. But-because we don't shoot there every 2 weeks or so. We have been pushed down the list by folks with higher rank points, but slower times. IMO-Rank scoring should be done away with! LG
Rank points serve no function at all. They can(and has)cause shooters to place lower in the overall scores, irregardless of the actual times. It needs to be done away with-- LG
Hi Rusty, We missed you at the Father's Day match yesterday. It was great fun. I sent the scores out in this mornings mail. Grumpy want me to do a couple of plugs for participation on the forums. Any advice or conversation on how best to do that?
I posted the scores. Rather than post two different tables you can simply look at the Rank column in the Final section to the right of you alias. You will see how the order would be different if using Rank. For June there were differences.
Now you all have me curious. I usually just ignored the Rank as I'm usually dead last or as good as dead last. But when Lumpy spoke up against it it got we wondering about it.
What is Rank and how does it work or how is it supposed to work? If I shoot among 10 shooters how to I get a rank of 20 something? No big deal, just being curious.
Hi Grumpy! My understanding is like this. If, with ten shooters, you finished stage one in 5th place, Rank score of 5, then, really had trouble on the next couple of stages, with a finish of 10th in stage 2 and 9th in stage three. Then you pulled it all together and finished 1st in stage four, you would end up with an overall rank of the sum total of the four stage ranks, in this case your rank score would be 25. Since there are many possible ways to add up four numbers, from one to ten, that total 25, a tie rank score would be broken by total time. While I never look at rank score to see where I finished, rank scoring is how I measure my consistency. I try to look at it like shooting a small group at a 100 yard target. It is better to shoot a four shot group that is five inches in diameter, which isn't all that small, than it is to shoot one perfectly centered bull's-eye then one off the edge of the paper then one in the nine ring then one in the six ring. I could be completely full of beans however! At least now you can see that in a match with ten shooters and four stages a person could end up with a rank score of 40. I believe that rank scoring is only used at very large events so you won't have to deal with it here.