The main reason that women's breastroke drop from a cut off of 1:20 in 1993 versus 1:17 in the 100 yard for the top ten times is that a different generation is a little faster than those that swam in the 1960's as kids. So the person who was top ten at 1:17 this year, swam faster than last year. The national qualifying time was 1:27 which was 10 seconds slower and as you stated Matt, this is a three year average and it takes time for this to drop. On the other hand, the 200 yard is a lot slower for qualifying times because us masters have trouble swimming good 200 swims outside of freestyle. As for what the time was in 1993 for 100 yard breastroke for national qualfying I don't know. I just play around the computer and look at the preceding top 10 times going back in time. However, I'm not currently able to find this. I also think that 100 yard fly for 45 to 49 women drop from 1:10 to 1:07 during the same time period.
Hi Michael,
That spreadsheet sounds like great research, but I was mostly referring to the years 1999 to present, which is the time I have been intimately involved with hand-typing the tables for the entry forms appearing in the magazine.
My point was that the new formula created by the Championship Committee a few years ago has very effectively stabilized the NQT table.
In fact, I have seen so little variance from one year to the next (DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS...sorry to shout...) -- :) -- that I hope the Championship Committee will pursue my suggestion to fix the qualifying times for three years at a time rather than rewriting them every year.
:) Bill
PS: I was right about my age group. In comparing the NQTs from 1993 to those for 2003 in the men's 35-39 age group, 13 out of 18 times were faster in 1993.
Hi Michael,
That spreadsheet sounds like great research, but I was mostly referring to the years 1999 to present, which is the time I have been intimately involved with hand-typing the tables for the entry forms appearing in the magazine.
My point was that the new formula created by the Championship Committee a few years ago has very effectively stabilized the NQT table.
In fact, I have seen so little variance from one year to the next (DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS...sorry to shout...) -- :) -- that I hope the Championship Committee will pursue my suggestion to fix the qualifying times for three years at a time rather than rewriting them every year.
:) Bill
PS: I was right about my age group. In comparing the NQTs from 1993 to those for 2003 in the men's 35-39 age group, 13 out of 18 times were faster in 1993.
