There is a Master's meet in Atlanta this Sunday which starts at 10 AM. I haven't been to one before so I was wondering how long they last and is there a certain order to the events.
I would hate to think that when someone truly has a breakthrough meet they were being labeled as a poor seeder.
Michelle -- I just looked up your results... you are definitely _not_ anyone who is anywhere on my list of people with bad seed times. Your seed times were terrific.
You swam a total of 750 yards, and your total cumulative time was 10:59.35 for all five events. Your _total_ "error" in seed times was 11.09 seconds. That means you dropped 1.7% from your seed times. That puts you somewhere in the realm of the 70th-percentile for seed time accuracy at the meet. You were better with your seed times than 70% of the swimmers in the meet.
Put another way, for every 100 yards of swimming, your seed times were off by 1.48 seconds, or 0.37 per 25 yards. Wow!
If everyone in the meet had seed times that were as accurate as yours, I'd be one of the happiest meet directors around!
We're always going to have people dropping time. That's what we hope for! And especially at championship meets, we expect to see time drops. What I'm trying to differentiate are "fantastic swims" and "bad seed times". If you drop a couple seconds in a 200, that's a great swim. If you "drop" 20 seconds in a 200, then you had a bad seed time.
-Rick
I would hate to think that when someone truly has a breakthrough meet they were being labeled as a poor seeder.
Michelle -- I just looked up your results... you are definitely _not_ anyone who is anywhere on my list of people with bad seed times. Your seed times were terrific.
You swam a total of 750 yards, and your total cumulative time was 10:59.35 for all five events. Your _total_ "error" in seed times was 11.09 seconds. That means you dropped 1.7% from your seed times. That puts you somewhere in the realm of the 70th-percentile for seed time accuracy at the meet. You were better with your seed times than 70% of the swimmers in the meet.
Put another way, for every 100 yards of swimming, your seed times were off by 1.48 seconds, or 0.37 per 25 yards. Wow!
If everyone in the meet had seed times that were as accurate as yours, I'd be one of the happiest meet directors around!
We're always going to have people dropping time. That's what we hope for! And especially at championship meets, we expect to see time drops. What I'm trying to differentiate are "fantastic swims" and "bad seed times". If you drop a couple seconds in a 200, that's a great swim. If you "drop" 20 seconds in a 200, then you had a bad seed time.
-Rick
