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)
It's interesting that the M55-59 is absent from this comparison.
Out of curiousity I compared the distribution of times for the women's age groups and compared them to the men's distributions, looking for the best match in the first "hump" in the distribution (the center of the first "pack"). These are the matches:
W18-24/M50-54
W25-29/M45-49
W30-34/M50-54
W35-39/M60-64
W40-44/M60-64
W45-49/M60-65
W50-54/M60-65
W55-59/M65-69
The distributions were for the 100m freestyle, for the last couple years of competition in the Canadian results database. I've attached a sample distribution.
It's interesting that the M55-59 is absent from this comparison.
Out of curiousity I compared the distribution of times for the women's age groups and compared them to the men's distributions, looking for the best match in the first "hump" in the distribution (the center of the first "pack"). These are the matches:
W18-24/M50-54
W25-29/M45-49
W30-34/M50-54
W35-39/M60-64
W40-44/M60-64
W45-49/M60-65
W50-54/M60-65
W55-59/M65-69
The distributions were for the 100m freestyle, for the last couple years of competition in the Canadian results database. I've attached a sample distribution.
