OK...Here comes a thread for all of you wannabe odds-makers.
Post your thoughts for establishing handicaps for personal challenge races.
Here are a couple of mine:
1. Age credit: basic idea.....the older of the two gets a handicap. (as in chaos vs. muppet) the handicap goes to yours truly.
2. Wetsuit penalty: self explanatory....I heard 10% is a good rule of thumb for this one.
3. Personal bests (within 2 years).....swimmers are handicapped based on their best recent performances. (this could make geek vs. gull II a real nail-biter)
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This is an interesting idea.
Seems like there should be handicaps for # practices per week, # years of masters competition, physical/health problems. I guess, perhaps, some female posters might possibly want a kid/# kids handicap. (If you don't, please ignore this; I've just heard someone say it.)
How do you propose to quantify the handicaps for these factors? Is there a Math Geek who can do the numbers?
I'd like to hear about the handicapping for the Muppet vs. Barra challenge. Is the challenge in the 100 or 200 fly or a distance free event?
Back to my non-math job.
This is an interesting idea.
Seems like there should be handicaps for # practices per week, # years of masters competition, physical/health problems. I guess, perhaps, some female posters might possibly want a kid/# kids handicap. (If you don't, please ignore this; I've just heard someone say it.)
How do you propose to quantify the handicaps for these factors? Is there a Math Geek who can do the numbers?
I'd like to hear about the handicapping for the Muppet vs. Barra challenge. Is the challenge in the 100 or 200 fly or a distance free event?
Back to my non-math job.
