Percentage drop offs

You can use the Virginia Ratings Calculator to answer this question: www.vaswim.org/.../rcalc.cgi Pick an event and course (there are no 25s since those aren't official events) then switch from "time" to "rating." A rating of 100 corresponds to a record-caliber swim, so use smaller numbers if you like. Then calculate the time for different ages. The percent increase tends to increase with age. I have also created an Excel file to do these calculations. www.vaswim.org/RatingCalculator.xlsx Use the second worksheet (the tab is labeled "Swim Converter"). The converter is not the usual sort since it can convert between ages, which is exactly what you want. The answers from the Excel file won't be exactly the same as the CGI page since I updated the curve coefficients for the spreadsheet but haven't done so for the website. Chris, thanks a lot! This is brilliant. Is there anyway to import our meet results into your Rating Calculator so that it would automatically crank out a rating for all the different swims without us having to do manual entry for each individual swim? A way of automating things, in other words? Could you explain some of the features? What, for instance, are FINA points? Did you ever come up with a way to adjust for the suit change? Times done in SCY in 2010, for instance, tend to be a lot faster for many of us thanks to the pinnacle of the floatie suits. Since then, times have generally gotten slower even if the swimmers haven't necessarily become worse. This (with apologies to Leslie) seems to have affected men more than women. ' Anyhow, I would love to be able to do an apples to apples comparison. I am at the age where the curve seems to be bending northwards (an omen?) at an ever accelerating pace. I would like to know how much of my swimming performances are the result of aging, and how much are the result of the suit changes, and how much are a synergy of both?

You can use the Virginia Ratings Calculator to answer this question: www.vaswim.org/.../rcalc.cgi Pick an event and course (there are no 25s since those aren't official events) then switch from "time" to "rating." A rating of 100 corresponds to a record-caliber swim, so use smaller numbers if you like. Then calculate the time for different ages. The percent increase tends to increase with age. I have also created an Excel file to do these calculations. www.vaswim.org/RatingCalculator.xlsx Use the second worksheet (the tab is labeled "Swim Converter"). The converter is not the usual sort since it can convert between ages, which is exactly what you want. The answers from the Excel file won't be exactly the same as the CGI page since I updated the curve coefficients for the spreadsheet but haven't done so for the website. Chris, thanks a lot! This is brilliant. Is there anyway to import our meet results into your Rating Calculator so that it would automatically crank out a rating for all the different swims without us having to do manual entry for each individual swim? A way of automating things, in other words? Could you explain some of the features? What, for instance, are FINA points? Did you ever come up with a way to adjust for the suit change? Times done in SCY in 2010, for instance, tend to be a lot faster for many of us thanks to the pinnacle of the floatie suits. Since then, times have generally gotten slower even if the swimmers haven't necessarily become worse. This (with apologies to Leslie) seems to have affected men more than women. ' Anyhow, I would love to be able to do an apples to apples comparison. I am at the age where the curve seems to be bending northwards (an omen?) at an ever accelerating pace. I would like to know how much of my swimming performances are the result of aging, and how much are the result of the suit changes, and how much are a synergy of both?