HH Club League, Season 1 - October 2004 to February 2005.

Rules
Results ( .pdf ) - Final Standings.

 

Rules

Prizes will be awarded for individual and intra-HH area competitions at the Club Dinner.

Who can take part?

HH Club members, competing as HHs at nominated events

Which events?

Events will be nominated in advance and will include HH Saturday Series Events with Light Green standard courses, all South East League Events and a mixture of local District, Regional and National Events. Approximately two events per month will be nominated.

What courses?

Any course which is light green standard or above.

How does the scoring work?

All club members will be given a target time, or handicap, which has been calculated using performances over the past year. At a particular event if you match your handicap you will score 100 points, if you are faster you will score more, slower less. See the example below. A maximum of two-thirds of the total events in any season will count towards the League Total.

How do you calculate your performance at a particular event?

This is a min/km time adjusted to take into account the height climb (10m climb is considered an additional 100m distance). Multiply the course height gain by 10 and add it to the course distance to get the adjusted distance and divide that into the time you have taken. This is your performance. So for instance if your course was 6.6 km with 320m climb and you completed it in 77.57 minutes, your performance at this event was 7.92 (77.57/(6.6+3.2)).

How does your performance convert into points?

If your performance and handicap at a particular event are the same you get 100 points and for each 1% more than the target you lose 1 point and vice versa. So going back to the example, if your handicap is 7.5 and your performance at a particular event is 7.97, then you are 6.3% worse than your handicap (7.97-7.5/0.075) and would score 93.7 points.

How were the handicaps calculated?

Anyone who took part in at least two of the following events should have a handicap for this season calculated as the median of all the performances:

  • HH Club Championships, Bentley Priory 6/9/03
  • Ashridge Regional Event, 11/1/04
  • Icenian 2004, 27/1/04
  • GO National Event, 1/2/04
  • TVOC Chiltern Challenge, 8/2/04
  • Hindleap Regional Event, 22/2/04
  • Compass Sport Cup Heat, Esher Common, 14/3/04
  • Burnham Beeches District Event, 21/3/04
  • JK Day1 and Day 2
  • 0007 National Event, 3/5/04

What events have been nominated for the first season?

  • HH Club Championships, Sherrardspark Wood, 2nd October
  • Arundel, Eartham, SO Regional Event, 10th October
  • Whippendell, Cassiobury, HH District Event, 31st October
  • Millwards Wood, HH Saturday Series, 5th November
  • Epping East, CHIG District Event, 14th November
  • Ightham, SAX Regional Event, 5th December
  • Hankley Common, Milford, SLOW OK Nuts Loop Races, 12th December
  • Ash Ranges, SN National Event, 2nd January
  • Broadstone Warren, SO Regional Event, 16th January
  • Chobham Common, GO Regional Event, 30th January
  • Millwards Park, HH District Event, 20th February
  • Compass Sport Cup, Round 1, 27th February

** Bonus Event **
Wendover, TVOC District Event, 19th December
If you competed somewhere else on 19th December send the details of your run to and it will be included as the Bonus Event too.

The scores from your best 8 events in this list go towards your final total for Season 1.

Questions:

Do you have to take part?

No, you can opt out of the league by simply letting me know.

I don't have a handicap - how can I get one?

  • If you are new to orienteering, after you have taken part in two nominated events your handicap will be calculated and you can score points for the remaining events in that season.
  • If you have been competing, but not at the events used in the handicap calculation send details to me of upto 5 events, course length, climb and time taken and you handicap will be calculated.

Will my handicap stay the same?

For this season, unless an error has been made (let Máire Convery know if you think this is the case) your handicap will remain unchanged. At the end of the season, however, all handicaps will be recalculated based on performances this season and the new handicap used in Season 2.