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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For the age component of this, we had a huge discussion of this a number of years back, which resulted in one swimmer--maybe the great Phil Arcuni--putting the following on the Internet.
http://n3times.com/swimtimes/
Hi
I just checked that site and formula.
My time this year (2007) in a 50 LCM free was 35.16.
According to the formula I would have been doing 28.50 at age 20. However at age 20, my PB was 27.20 (which in turn, means that I should be doing 33.56 at 64, now).
Therefore I can attribute that loss of 1.2 seconds to 40+ years of non-swimming (I stopped at 21-ish) and 45 years of heavy smoking (but I quit on 02/02/2002)
(Strangely enough, it looks as if Finns are couch potatoes and smokers. Why? you ask. According to the Finnish formula, 27.20 at age 20 translates to 35.16 at 64; my exact time to the 1/100th of a second last Saturday 24th. And I'm not a Finn).
Cheers
For the age component of this, we had a huge discussion of this a number of years back, which resulted in one swimmer--maybe the great Phil Arcuni--putting the following on the Internet.
http://n3times.com/swimtimes/
Hi
I just checked that site and formula.
My time this year (2007) in a 50 LCM free was 35.16.
According to the formula I would have been doing 28.50 at age 20. However at age 20, my PB was 27.20 (which in turn, means that I should be doing 33.56 at 64, now).
Therefore I can attribute that loss of 1.2 seconds to 40+ years of non-swimming (I stopped at 21-ish) and 45 years of heavy smoking (but I quit on 02/02/2002)
(Strangely enough, it looks as if Finns are couch potatoes and smokers. Why? you ask. According to the Finnish formula, 27.20 at age 20 translates to 35.16 at 64; my exact time to the 1/100th of a second last Saturday 24th. And I'm not a Finn).
Cheers
