Here's a thread for the ladies to discuss anything that relates to women and swimming. For example, feel free to discuss how disgustingly ugly fastskins are, how the "curse" can kill a meet, how suits don't fit, how swimming wrecks your hair, how hormones unhinge you, etc.
Most meet directors discourage the use of NTs, especially at big meets where they want the heats to run quickly.
Some meets, like our New England Championship meets, forbid it. "NT" entries are rejected. We also have wording in our meet information that allows the meet management to adjust any seed time that is obviously incorrect. So if we see a sandbagged entry, we reserve the right to correct it.
At our upcoming NE SCY meet, we have added (starting last year) a seed time promotion. The first 10 swimmers in the meet who swim their _exact_ seed time will win a $10 Starbucks card. Last year, we had 8 winners.
We also publish reports of the best and worst seeders, and also a full list of all swimmers in the meet and how well or poorly they seeded themselves. This way, in future years, we can keep an eye out for the bad repeats.
We had one swimmer, for example, who across a total of 9 individual events, swam times that were, on average, 0.28 seconds per 100 yards, different from her seed times. Time-wise, we had around 40 swimmers who were within 1% of their seed times, on average.
We also had people who were 35% off their seed times on average.
-Rick
Most meet directors discourage the use of NTs, especially at big meets where they want the heats to run quickly.
Some meets, like our New England Championship meets, forbid it. "NT" entries are rejected. We also have wording in our meet information that allows the meet management to adjust any seed time that is obviously incorrect. So if we see a sandbagged entry, we reserve the right to correct it.
At our upcoming NE SCY meet, we have added (starting last year) a seed time promotion. The first 10 swimmers in the meet who swim their _exact_ seed time will win a $10 Starbucks card. Last year, we had 8 winners.
We also publish reports of the best and worst seeders, and also a full list of all swimmers in the meet and how well or poorly they seeded themselves. This way, in future years, we can keep an eye out for the bad repeats.
We had one swimmer, for example, who across a total of 9 individual events, swam times that were, on average, 0.28 seconds per 100 yards, different from her seed times. Time-wise, we had around 40 swimmers who were within 1% of their seed times, on average.
We also had people who were 35% off their seed times on average.
-Rick
