WAGAL Champions 1998

However, somehow we need to identify male and female champions in each three categories: Junior, Senior and Veteran. This has not been easy as some of the classes have been very small. I've taken the following approach.

For each category ( JM, JF, SM, SF, VM, VF ) I've first identified the three highest scoring competitors. If they're clearly ordered, then it's simple. If they're not (eg. three people each with 3000 points), then I've considered the difference between these three people and the second placed person in each of their classes. So if two people in the same category both had 3000 points, but one was 500 points ahead of the second placed person in their class whilst the other only had a margin of 250 points, then the person with a margin of 500 points is ranked higher. But even this had to be tweaked. For example, in the Junior Female class, Blanka Sengerova and Helen Gardner both had 3000 points, Helen had a margin of 2101 whilst Blanka had a margin of 611. But Helen's margin was so big because no-one else in her class ran in more than two events. In these cases I've taken the margin between the class winner and the second placed competitor over the number of events in which the second ranked person ran. So in Helen's case, this gives her 2000 - 899 = 1101 points difference. In this case, it didn't make any difference to the ranking, but it might have done.

In addition, planners and non-competing organisers were each given 1000 points for the event which they planned/organised. This only affected Steve Williams' position.

So here are the club champions:

Congratulations to our new Club Champions!

Dave.