The anti-sandbag law:
"if a swimmer enters an event with a time significantly slower or faster than that swimmer's recorded time in the past two years, the meet director may, after a discussion with the swimmer, change the seeded time to a realistic time" (104.5.5.A(10)).
Concerning my Auburn nationals entry, I confess, when faced with a 7 hour 2 stop flight and 3:45 nonstop at an earlier time, I did what any warm-blooded middle-aged American swimmer with low self-esteem would do--sandbag my entry so I could catch the earlier flight, thus diminishing the possible time spent sitting next to a 400 pound Alabama slammer with sleep apnea wearing nothing but overalls and body odor. Of course, I was caught in my bold fabrication and my time was "fixed."
USMS seems to have an identity problem. Are we hard core with rigid qualifying times? It would seem not as 2 of my not-so-speedy family members were allowed to swim four events last year in Puerto Rico. If we are not hard core, why does anybody care that I sandbag? More to the point, why can one person enter a crappy time and another cannot? Just wondering.:)
oh, if you want some analysis to back up my posts I analyzed your lane placement in the first few events that showed up in the masters data base. Assuming an 8 lane pool in the 50 free you were in an outside lane in 25% of your races. 50 back 15%, 100 back 33%, 50 fly 23%. For an average of averages of 24% in an outside lane compared to an expected value of 25%.
at the risk of the pot calling the kettle black: too much time on your hands bro.
oh, if you want some analysis to back up my posts I analyzed your lane placement in the first few events that showed up in the masters data base. Assuming an 8 lane pool in the 50 free you were in an outside lane in 25% of your races. 50 back 15%, 100 back 33%, 50 fly 23%. For an average of averages of 24% in an outside lane compared to an expected value of 25%.
at the risk of the pot calling the kettle black: too much time on your hands bro.
