HAL's Race Results - Scoring Made Easy

Quality settings

This screen is reached from the summary screen. It is used to specify the quality settings that the program will use in all statistical analysis.
Quality settings

Poor performance threshold (default 5%)

In some races, there are boats that perform particularly badly. Often this is due to gear failure or crew problems. If the results from these boats are included when working out the Standard Corrected Time for the race (see below) they will unduly skew it. Therefore any boat whose corrected time is more than this percentage greater than the average corrected time of all finishers will be deemed a poor performer. Poor performers are left out when working out the Standard Corrected Time. Any boat whose corrected time is within the threshold is a good performer.

Minimum number of finishers that are good performers (default 5)

You must have a reasonable number of boats finishing a race to gather meaningful statistics from it. HAL's Performance Analyser rejects any races that have less than this number of good performers.

Standard Corrected Time

This is the average corrected time of all the good performers. It is the benchmark time for the race, so any boat whose corrected time is the same as the standard corrected time has performed exactly to her handicap. Any boat whose corrected time is less than the standard corrected time has outperformed her handicap and any boat whose corrected time is greater than the standard corrected time has not performed up to her handicap.