Seeding - Seed Time vs Actual Time

Perhaps we could use an online lane selector for meets similar to what the airlines use for seat selection. Choose your heat and your lane in advance. The host could charge a bit more for the prime lanes and heats.This is a great idea, as long as there are frequent flyer awards to get upgrades. Even better than choosing your lane and heat, is choosing who is in the lane(s) next to you. The meet host could make extra money (take the airline change fee of $150 and divide by $100 for $1.50 charge per move) by charging every time you switch your lane. Something like this: Two weeks before the entry deadline, I enter the 400 free and really want to swim next to a certain individual. I choose the last heat, lane 4 and pay my $4 basic event entry fee. A week before the entry deadline, I notice that this individual has decided he wants to swim in heat 1, so I pay a $1.50 change fee to move myself to the lane next to him. The next day, he's apparently not keen on that, so he moves to heat 2 and grabs the last open lane there. Chalk up another $1.50 change fee for the meet organizers. Now, I'm faced with a dilemma as my move is going to cost me two fees: $1.50 change fee An auction amount to be determined by the swimmer currently in the lane I want to be in. I decide to make the move and negotiate a $10 fee with that swimmer so that we swap lanes. Per the rules of the game, that swimmer then gets to keep half as a credit to their entry fees and the meet host gets the other half. This games-man-ship goes on and on right up until the deadline, all supported by an online program (we'll ask TeamUnify or SwimPhone to build it) so that, by the end of it all, this competitor and I have each paid multiple change fees and "swimmer swap" fees, making the meet host lots of money so that they can then throw an awesome kegger at the end of the meet (or, maybe, buy new EneyBuoys for the team).

Perhaps we could use an online lane selector for meets similar to what the airlines use for seat selection. Choose your heat and your lane in advance. The host could charge a bit more for the prime lanes and heats.This is a great idea, as long as there are frequent flyer awards to get upgrades. Even better than choosing your lane and heat, is choosing who is in the lane(s) next to you. The meet host could make extra money (take the airline change fee of $150 and divide by $100 for $1.50 charge per move) by charging every time you switch your lane. Something like this: Two weeks before the entry deadline, I enter the 400 free and really want to swim next to a certain individual. I choose the last heat, lane 4 and pay my $4 basic event entry fee. A week before the entry deadline, I notice that this individual has decided he wants to swim in heat 1, so I pay a $1.50 change fee to move myself to the lane next to him. The next day, he's apparently not keen on that, so he moves to heat 2 and grabs the last open lane there. Chalk up another $1.50 change fee for the meet organizers. Now, I'm faced with a dilemma as my move is going to cost me two fees: $1.50 change fee An auction amount to be determined by the swimmer currently in the lane I want to be in. I decide to make the move and negotiate a $10 fee with that swimmer so that we swap lanes. Per the rules of the game, that swimmer then gets to keep half as a credit to their entry fees and the meet host gets the other half. This games-man-ship goes on and on right up until the deadline, all supported by an online program (we'll ask TeamUnify or SwimPhone to build it) so that, by the end of it all, this competitor and I have each paid multiple change fees and "swimmer swap" fees, making the meet host lots of money so that they can then throw an awesome kegger at the end of the meet (or, maybe, buy new EneyBuoys for the team).