In message <LNBBIPCHGANGCLIKCLLAKEALHCAA.Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>,
"Kevin Stevens" writes:
>While having people not get lost is A Good Thing, it should be a result rather
>than a goal of good course design. I wouldn't agree that it should be pursued
>as a primary indicator of a successful program.
>
>Yesterday's course was very well designed for the location, expected weather,
>and number of entrants. It was somewhat simplistic for a typical SFR and
>national course - running it in my head I count 11 notable elements, vs 16-24
>that I find typical for an SCCA course.
Well, in homage to Rich Urschel, here are some (very) rough numbers
from last year's normal season events:
round1: 79 DNFs / 846 runs
round2: 62 DNFs / 717 runs
round3: 27 DNFs / 519 runs
round4: 31 DNFs / 712 runs
round5: 54 DNFs / 716 runs
round6: 31 DNFs / 690 runs
round7: 28 DNFs / 796 runs
round8: 16 DNFs / 608 runs
round9: 24 DNFs / 472 runs
round10: 18 DNFs / 603 runs
round11: 22 DNFs / 588 runs
round12: 24 DNFs / 868 runs
round13: 17 DNFs / 876 runs
round14: 9 DNFs / 540 runs
round15: 21 DNFs / 560 runs
round16: 10 DNFs / 576 runs
round17: 12 DNFs / 620 runs
round18: 6 DNFs / 520 runs
I just made a quick pass at the reported results with an awk script,
reporting the total number of lines I saw multiplied by the number
of runs per person. I occasionally got more lines than report
entries; I suppose that this is due either to people buying fun
runs in addition to thier regular runs, or due to my lame awk hacking.
Kevin "Too-Much-Time-On-His-Hands" Lahey
kml@patheticgeek.net
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