PRIVATE PREVIEW - 2006 Spyder National Masters team

SCORING: The Spyder team is scored using the "old World Cup points" system (25 points for 1st, 20 for 2nd, 15 for 3rd, 12...1 for 4th..15th place).
 - ISSUE: Must competitors START in all three events to be eligible??
 - ISSUE: competitors do NOT need to finish all events to be eligible. [**RIGHT??!***]

TIE-BREAKING: In the event of a first-place tie, the Spyder team member is selected by applying the following criteria:
(a) best finish (e.g, if one racer's best finish is 1st, the other racer's best finish is 2nd, the former is selected). If both racers have equal position for their best finish, repeat with 2nd best finish; if still tied, repeat again with 3rd best finish.
(b) race points - if the best-finish criteria is unable to break the tie because both racers have the same finish-position record, then the total race points of the two competitors are used to select the team member, i.e., their class combined standings resolves the tie).

There are 5 classes in which the Spyder Team member is different than the class combined champion: W09 (Marietta Frinell, combined; Chris Liegl, Spyder), W08 (Glenn McConkey, combined; Nancy Auseklis, Spyder), W02 (Dasha Kadulova, combined; Tracy Reimer, Spyder), M07 (Victor Roy, combined; Pepi Neubauer, Spyder), M02 (Toby Chapman, combined; Ryan Leach, Spyder) This is a "normal" situation - World Cup points scoring of the Spyder team places more emphasis on finish position, whereas race points scoring for the combined places more emphasis on time/closeness of competitors' results.

ISSUE: M04 depends on whether racer must start in all three events to be eligible. Bill McGrath has 50 points from 1-1 finishes in GS and SL, but did not compete in the SG. Stuart Homsy and Dennis Wilhelmsen are tied with 47 points and have equal finish records of 2-3-4, which would be broken by race points with Homsy (63.84) edging Wilhelmsen (66.21) if the must-start-all-races criteria is used.

2006 Spyder Team Standings **Draft**
Class Men Women Notes
CompetitorDivisionPts (SG-GS-SL)Race Pts CompetitorDivisionPts (SG-GS-SL)Race Pts
13 (85-89) John WoodwardFW75 (1-1-1)0.00    
12 (80-85) Richard CalvertEA75 (1-1-1)0.00 Cathie DouglasRM50 (x-1-1)0.00  
11 (75-79) Duffy DodgeEA60 (2-3-1)15.02 Alice PepperEA65 (2-2-1)40.87  
10 (70-75) Al AuseklisIM70 (2-1-1)4.77 Wendy HillEA75 (1-1-1)0.00  
9 (65-69) Willi SchmidtPN60 (2-2-2)58.27 Chris LieglCN62 (4-1-1)481.23 Different combined winner
    Marietta FrinellFW 60 (2-2-2)60.52
8 (60-65) Knut OlbergPN75 (1-1-1)0.00 Nancy AuseklisIM70 (1-2-1)15.76 Different combined winner
    Glenn McConkeyIM 65 (2-1-2)9.63
7 (55-59) Pepi NeubauerEA70 (1-1-2)21.84 Barb SettelEA70 (1-2-1)29.40 Different combined winner
  Victor RoyPN 65 (2-2-1)18.05
6 (50-55) Cary AdgateCN75 (1-1-1)0.00 Deb LewisFW70 (2-1-1)47.53  
5 (45-49) Lars FribergIM53 (8-2-1)20.39 Amy LanzelIM75 (1-1-1)0.00  
4 (40-45) TBDDIVPTS (finish)PTS Lisa Feinberg DensmoreEA70 (1-1-2)16.78 Winner depends on whether
racer must compete in
all 3 events to be eligible
  Bill McGrathIM 50 (x-1-1)n/a  
  Stuart HomsyCN 47 (4-2-3)63.84  
  Dennis WilhelmsenPN 47 (3-4-2)66.21  
3 (35-39) Sverre NyquistN62 (1-1-4)23.27 Liesl PankeFW70 (1-1-2)7.55  
2 (30-35) Ryan LeachIM70 (1-1-2)32.58 Tracy ReimerEA65 (3-1-1)111.83 Different combined winner
  Toby ChapmanN 57 (4-2-1)8.51 Dasha KadulovaIM 60 (1-2-3)83.47
1 (20-29) Tom BehanCN70 (2-1-1)24.96 Dana AlexandrescuIM75 (1-1-1)0.00  

Complete Spyder team standings from the 2005 Big Sky national championships

For reference, the 2005 Big Sky national championships class combined champions based on race points:


Contact Information

Deb Lewis
Director of Race Services and Scoring, Far West Masters
Email: djlewis@acm.org

Last update: 08-Apr-2005