Fritz,
I do agree there is too much sandbagging going on. There is an older female swimmer in the Bay Area, who is a world record holder, that sandbags all the time- it drives me NUTS. I could give you more of her current accomplishments (and they're huge!) but I don't want to make it too easy for you to figure out!
If you look at the way I suggested to divide the flights... it was by number of swimmers, NOT times. I don't know about you, but I have no idea how many people are going to enter which events. That would be a completely "fair" way to do it. There's that "f" word again! So, again, if you had 40 swimmers in the 200 free. You'd divide into two groups of 20... just clarifying, that sandbagging wouldn't really help. Although I guess if I entered 2:00 for the 100 free (instead of 56.8) I'd win the slower flight, huh? I can't see anybody doing that at Nationals. They'd look really stupid. But, hey, I'm frequently wrong :p
Fritz,
I do agree there is too much sandbagging going on. There is an older female swimmer in the Bay Area, who is a world record holder, that sandbags all the time- it drives me NUTS. I could give you more of her current accomplishments (and they're huge!) but I don't want to make it too easy for you to figure out!
If you look at the way I suggested to divide the flights... it was by number of swimmers, NOT times. I don't know about you, but I have no idea how many people are going to enter which events. That would be a completely "fair" way to do it. There's that "f" word again! So, again, if you had 40 swimmers in the 200 free. You'd divide into two groups of 20... just clarifying, that sandbagging wouldn't really help. Although I guess if I entered 2:00 for the 100 free (instead of 56.8) I'd win the slower flight, huh? I can't see anybody doing that at Nationals. They'd look really stupid. But, hey, I'm frequently wrong :p
