I demand to have a corded tire index. If not, I'll go for Carl's Prosolo
approach. Heck, I took 4 whole seconds off of my official best time in my
fun runs :)
Hey Scot, the sad part is, even if you and I lied about having street tires,
we still wouldn't be able to touch Andy and Derek's PAX times.
--Navid
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Scot Zediker
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 4:17 PM
> To: Carl Merritt; 'James Creasy'; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Team Rules (RE: TLH Tears it up in Marina)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Merritt" <cmerritt@ati.com>
> To: "'James Creasy'" <black94pgt@pacbell.net>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 12:15 PM
> Subject: Team Rules (RE: TLH Tears it up in Marina)
>
>
> > Ah, well, we would have to agree on some rules first... (remember, we
> > shelved that discussion until AFTER the race =P.
> >
> > Here's my suggestion:
> >
> > First off, we need to talk about the number of teams. Not that
> it really
> > matters, but Team Sloth might want to develop some sort of
> political rift
> > (BMW snobs pulling out and forming their own team?) since they are much
> > bigger than TLH.
>
> That would work for me. Split 'em into Team Sloth and Team
> Avarice! (those
> are the only two of the Seven Deadly Sins I can remember)
>
> > Derive an average index for each team. Since there are quite a few
> drivers
> > that are using street tires, I would recommend we apply an additional
> street
> > tire index. The easy way to get this index is take Street Touring and
> > subtract Street Touring S's index from it and you get .027, or 1.62
> seconds
> > per 60 seconds (a conservative number, but not bad and better than
> nothing).
> > So my ESP 300ZX's index would fall from a .822 to a .795.
>
> I think a better approach is to DIVIDE the STS index by that for STR. I
> came up with a "street tire multiplier" of .967, which changes your Z's
> index to... well, to .795. Okay, for most of us it works out the same
> either way, but I like my approach better. So there! :-b
>
> But then the problem we run into is, are these people claiming to be on
> street tires actually on street tires? For instance, I could lie about
> running my streets yesterday at Marina. If we adopt a modified index for
> street tires, I would end up with a PAX time that would look more
> appropriate for Andy McKee than myself if I told such a lie and
> you fell for
> it (not that I think you would). I like this approach in
> principle, but it
> may require a little too much policing for a friendly competition such as
> this one. This is just for fun after all.
>
> > Next, (and I'm sure I'm going to get lots of flack for this
> idea) I would
> > suggest that we approach this kinda like a Pro-Solo finale...take the
> > average indexed time for each team and apply a handicap modifier so that
> all
> > teams fished with an IDENTICAL time for this first event. Then for the
> next
> > two events, each team to win has to IMPROVE their times against how they
> did
> > in the first event because of the handicap index set in the first event.
> > Make sense?
>
> I don't really like this idea. It just mucks things up too much.
>
> This is a good start, though. We can probably come up with a workable
> scoring system about the time they finally decide who will be President ;)
>
> Scot - Leader of the Long-Haired Freaky People (at least that's what Katie
> K. called me) and SFR's Resident Burnout King
> '91 CS Miata
> Team Longhair
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