Does anyone have an idea if qualifying times for SCN will drop back a bit now that the suits have been gone? I am real close in the 50 and 100 free and this would be good news for me.
Oh, well, I didn't want to have breakfast anyway!!
Seriously, tried to find a formula or something on this site with no luck. I think it's based on the previous year's Top 10, so if your age group's times went down post-rubber, the quals will probably drop.
Hope to meet you in Greensboro next year!
I'll be there and look forward to meeting another frog! :D
:lmao:
Yeah, I could just see the noodlers in our community trying to squeeze into a kneeskin... :afraid:
Oh, well, I didn't want to have breakfast anyway!!
Seriously, tried to find a formula or something on this site with no luck. I think it's based on the previous year's Top 10, so if your age group's times went down post-rubber, the quals will probably drop.
Hope to meet you in Greensboro next year!
I would agree with Aquageek. Time standards should be staying the same or getting faster. Masters is growing every year, so that means the swimming should get faster every year, and not necessarily the national meet (that meet is already long enough!!).
Does anyone have an idea if qualifying times for SCN will drop back a bit now that the suits have been gone? I am real close in the 50 and 100 free and this would be good news for me.
NQTs may get slower due to the way the formula works (see previous poster) but I don't think it is likely that any additional correction factor will be added. This item came up at convention but it was voted to keep the same formula in place for Mesa; see item #5 in the following minutes:
www.usms.org/.../champ-2010-9-16-1.pdf
Anything is possible, I suppose, but if they didn't change it for Mesa I am not sure why they would change it for Greensboro or other future spring nationals.
Seriously, tried to find a formula or something on this site with no luck. I think it's based on the previous year's Top 10, so if your age group's times went down post-rubber, the quals will probably drop.
The formula is a little hard to find, but it's listed at the bottom of the qualifying times tables for SCY, at least. For SCY, it's the three year average of the Top Ten 10th place time + a conversion factor (15% for 50s and 100s, and 10% for 200s+). For LCM, I couldn't immediately find the formula, but I think I remember it being the three year average of the Top Ten 5th place time plus a similar conversion factor. In any event, it takes into account the three year averages. So, the times may be affected somewhat by whatever suits were/are allowed over the past few years, but it won't be a dramatic change from year to year.
