When a new masters swimmer asked on a different thread for a meters to yard conversion utility, I referred her to the following site:
www.swiminfo.com/.../conversions.asp
Unfortunately, as another poster quickly pointed out, this site will soon be available only to those who pay for it.
I am wondering if someone with some computer savvy could recreate this very useful utility for us masters, then post it in an area of the USMS web site where we could access it for free.
This same area could also include some other useful tools for swimmers. There is, for example, a fun (though perhaps somewhat suspect) "future times predictor" for aging swimmers at:
http://n3times.com/swimtimes/
In addition, my friend and teammate Bill White wrote an Excel spreadsheet (so far not posted on the web) that allows you to easily calculate your 100 pace for distance swims. You can either input the total distance and total time and it will give you your average 100; or you can input the average 100 you hope to swim and the total distance, and it will crank out what your overall time will be if you can hold that pace.
Anyhow, I propose the USMS web site add a new section called something like "Swimmers Tool Box" that collects, in one place, all these useful and/or just fun-to-play-around-with utilities we can come up with. I know many of the posters here are brilliant amateur mathematicians, who enjoy inventing these things; maybe we could even have an annual award for whatever new calculator we users vote as the most interesting! Kind of like a Touring Prize (is that the right name) for swimming math esoterica!
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Standard deviation should iron out any disparities that occur like the afore mentioned 200 backstroke. Plus you need to compate more than one year. THe first thing I learned in college: Anecodtal evidense is generally the most convincing but statsitically the most irrelevent.
To show show, I ran 4 years worth of data on the Mens 200 M back. The average top 10 from 2000-2003 for 40-44 was 2:27.01 with a delta of 5.26 The average for 45-49 was 2:33.10 with a delta of 4.29 This confirms what we already knew, Frit'z swim this past summer (which was 3 stds under the mean) was a better swim than the 2:22 that your friend swam. Also a 2:48.0 for a 40-44 is the equivalent of a 2:50.2 from a 45-49. That seems pretty accurate don't you think.
Oh, and I think we should officially refer to Fritz as an outlier.
Standard deviation should iron out any disparities that occur like the afore mentioned 200 backstroke. Plus you need to compate more than one year. THe first thing I learned in college: Anecodtal evidense is generally the most convincing but statsitically the most irrelevent.
To show show, I ran 4 years worth of data on the Mens 200 M back. The average top 10 from 2000-2003 for 40-44 was 2:27.01 with a delta of 5.26 The average for 45-49 was 2:33.10 with a delta of 4.29 This confirms what we already knew, Frit'z swim this past summer (which was 3 stds under the mean) was a better swim than the 2:22 that your friend swam. Also a 2:48.0 for a 40-44 is the equivalent of a 2:50.2 from a 45-49. That seems pretty accurate don't you think.
Oh, and I think we should officially refer to Fritz as an outlier.
