gouvernail said:The handicapping systems all need the same thing to get started...Somebody has to have enough passion to scxore a few demonstration events so others can see the possibilitiesand possibly join in the effort. Masters handicapping got rolling and seems to have stuck.
I have had a few ideas about handicaps we might try, Mostly I have also been too lazy or lacking in personal passion about those handicaps to actually spend the necessary effort to demonstrate how "great my idea" might have been.
OliLaser said:Having a handicap is retarted....
OliLaser said:I know what Phrf is what im saying is that if you want a handi cap race in a fleet of unsimmilar boars NOT one designs thats what makes one design so great you know whos in 1 2 3 4 5 as soon as your done racing and if your not very good well guess what theres like 182000 lasers out there chances are theres gona be someone who races whos as good as you so you can have competiotion
kch88 said:Sailing is so dependent on the weather, unlike golf or bowling, that if someone should have been farther ahead then they are, they may have hit that shift they needed instead of being handicapped and missing it. But that shouldn't matter really, it's all about having fun anyway.
kch88 said:One problem that I am thinking of at the moment, which wouldn't really be a big deal for most people but could affect the outcome of the races in a handicap system, is the weather. Sailing is so dependent on the weather, unlike golf or bowling, that if someone should have been farther ahead then they are, they may have hit that shift they needed instead of being handicapped and missing it. But that shouldn't matter really, it's all about having fun anyway.