All the Heats

Premium Member Comment by Trav on May 25, 2010 at 9:53

yeah Merrick, found this is the best race format for smaller numbers (<10) everyone gets plenty of riding in and the most consistent skater earns the win (unless you do a top 4 shootout and a grom cuts you off ) :)

ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on May 25, 2010 at 17:21

Here's a quick spreadsheet I whipped up to make running this sort of race a bit easier.

ASRA-round-robin.xls

It'll work for up to 10 racers, racing every other racer in a 2-man heat. That's a maximum of 45 races; 9 for each racer.

1. Write the racer's names in the yellow boxes.
2. For each race, write the winner's name in the appropriate spot in the draw.
3. Use the table at the bottom to write the final tally for each racer.

Premium Member Comment by Owen on May 25, 2010 at 17:24

every two weeks you say.

ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on May 25, 2010 at 17:33

While I'm messing with head-to-head race formats, check these two columns below.

The numbers on the left indicate the number of racers while the corresponding number on the right indicates how many races will be needed. (This is for 2-man, round-robin heats, ala Arvin's race)
2 1
3 3
4 6
5 10
6 15
7 21
8 28
9 36
10 45
11 55
12 66
13 78
14 91
15 105
16 120
17 136
18 153
19 171
20 190
21 210
22 231
23 253
24 276
25 300
26 325
27 351
28 378
29 406
30 435
31 465
32 496
33 528
34 561

Premium Member Comment by Owen on May 25, 2010 at 18:51

when is the next race.

Premium Member Comment by Trav on May 25, 2010 at 18:56

whenever you can make the trip up Owen let us know, we're there almost every weekend..

ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on May 26, 2010 at 11:21

Here's a slightly improved version of the round-robin draw. It can now handle a maximum of 12 competitors, which requires 66 races.

ASRA-round-robin.xls

Love the round robin format...

Premium Member Comment by Trav on May 26, 2010 at 11:53

love your work bugs, very official.
we were just walking to the top of the hill and saying "i haven't raced you yet, lets go". if there's an odd number, everyone takes a turn sitting out, which works out well, then you have a finish line judge..

Premium Member Comment by haggy on May 26, 2010 at 12:26

Trav - looks like you got robbed mate. our race is written down as my win, when in fact it was yours... which means you had one win more than me... i was running through it in my head on the drive back to syd after the race and thought we had the same amount of wins, but as it turns out you had more! oh well, the vagaries of a fun social race...

Comment by Arvin on May 26, 2010 at 13:01

that was the race where trav was drafting you but he never caught up right?

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