Shields Trophy

# SchoolTeam A TOT
1 California Poly Maritime Academy California Poly Maritime Academy Keelhaulers 17 17
2 Queen's University Queen's University Gaels 22 22
3 U. S. Naval Academy U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen 26 26
4 U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears 35 35
5 Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 37 37
6 Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers 40 40
7 SUNY Maritime College SUNY Maritime College Privateers 41 41
8 U. S. Merchant Marine Academy U. S. Merchant Marine Academy Mariners 45 45
9 U. S. Military Academy U. S. Military Academy Black Knights 53 53
SchoolTeam R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 TOT
California Poly Maritime Academy California Poly Maritime Academy Keelhaulers 1 2 1 7 2 2 2 17
Queen's University Queen's University Gaels 4 1 2 4 3 1 7 22
U. S. Naval Academy U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen 3 5 7 1 1 DSQ 1 26
U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears 6 4 6 3 5 6 5 35
Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 8 3 9 2 7 5 3 37
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers 5 7 8 9 4 3 4 40
SUNY Maritime College SUNY Maritime College Privateers 2 6 5 6 6 8 8 41
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy U. S. Merchant Marine Academy Mariners 7 8 4 8 8 4 6 45
U. S. Military Academy U. S. Military Academy Black Knights 9 9 3 5 9 9 9 53
School Team Sailors
California Poly Maritime Academy California Poly Maritime Academy Keelhaulers SkipperChris Vilicich '16
CrewCorey Lynch '17
CrewSeamus Dougherty '16
CrewStephen Katz '16
CrewJohannes McElvain '18
CrewDrake Jensen '18
CrewElisabeth McKee '17
CrewAndrew Gunnell '17
Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners SkipperGraham Roeber '19
CrewAlison Mitchell '16
CrewJohn Tersoni '17
CrewAnnika Zayac '17
CrewLiam O'Leary '17
CrewSteven Bell '16
CrewKyle Thomas '18
CrewIsaac Parker '18
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers SkipperEmily Casella '17
CrewBrandon Deal '16
CrewLeah Saunders '16
CrewRyan Novak-Smith '17
CrewJames Lamb '16
CrewChristopher Dawson '18
CrewKyle Brego '17
CrewJudson Yerkes '17
Queen's University Queen's University Gaels SkipperClifton Kartner '15
CrewMarie Boileau '16
CrewNicholas Wright '16
CrewCody Weeden '17
CrewDaniel Sheedy '17
CrewNicholas Schwenger '16
CrewConnor MacKenzie '17
CrewSamuel Thompson '17
SUNY Maritime College SUNY Maritime College Privateers SkipperTobias Fitzgerald '16
CrewAlexander Sharpe '16
CrewAlexander Haim '17
CrewJohn Ryder '18
CrewThomas Palicka '18
CrewChalmers Pierce '16
CrewDavid Yonks '17
CrewRiley Kernan '18
U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears SkipperRiely Brande '18
CrewEdwyn Cunningham '18
CrewJoshua Lambert '19
CrewJonathan Cardinal '19
CrewWilliam Colomb '18
CrewSulli Edwards '17
CrewMicah Larson '19
CrewPeter Reeve '17
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy U. S. Merchant Marine Academy Mariners SkipperJohn Kirk '16
CrewMichael Watkins '16
CrewNicholas Gioino '17
CrewConnor Sexton '17
CrewMichael Hahn '16
CrewMark Betancourt '16
CrewStephen Webster '18
CrewJacob Andrew '17
U. S. Military Academy U. S. Military Academy Black Knights SkipperAlbert Biddle '17
CrewDanielle Jordan '17
CrewMatthew Schmitt '17
CrewRuby Garcia '18
CrewNo show
CrewNina Tucker '18
CrewMichael Danko '17
CrewJames Trollan '16
U. S. Naval Academy U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen SkipperCharles Morris '16
CrewAndrew Bonn '16
CrewMikala Bussey '17
CrewKyle Pate '17
CrewDaniel Panchevre '17
CrewChristopher LaFrancois '17
CrewDax Ansley '16
CrewDylan Thompson-Sevcik '17

Performance rating asks, for each skipper: holding every other boat fixed, which rating makes my actual race-by-race finishes least surprising? Boats are valued with the keelboat rating rather than the fleet rating: 0.41 × the skipper's fleet rating from the week before the event (unrated skippers start at 0.47); 0.28 × the mean fleet rating of the rated crew aboard; the skipper's own keelboat offset; the school's program effect. Non-finishes (OCS, DNF and similar) are left out of the fitting, as in the rating model.

Percentile places a rating among the 207 ICSA sailors with a keelboat rating who raced the discipline in the last three seasons. Surprise is how many bits more surprising the finishes were at the pre-event rating than at the performance rating. P(this good or better) simulates the event 3,000 times at the pre-event ratings, with the same regatta-form model as the fleet analysis pages, and reports how often the skipper would score this many points or fewer in the races they sailed.

The keelboat offsets are the current ones (the discipline files keep no weekly history), so a skipper's own offset has already seen this event; offsets are shrunk hard, so the effect is a few hundredths at most. Only skippers are rated.

  • u no fleet rating — the model's level for unrated skippers is the baseline.

Division A  9 boats · 7 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1Chris Vilicich '16California Poly Maritime Academy7/72.352.34−0.0099th → 99th0.036%2.4 / 3.1
2Clifton Kartner '15Queen's University7/70.882.07+1.1970th → 99th3.77%3.1 / 5.2
3Charles Morris '16U. S. Naval Academy7/72.24u2.01−0.2399th → 99th0.178%4.0 / 3.2
4Riely Brande '18U. S. Coast Guard Academy7/71.58u1.12−0.4691st → 78th0.876%5.0 / 4.2
5Graham Roeber '19Maine Maritime Academy7/70.660.74+0.0857th → 61st0.044%5.3 / 5.5
6Emily Casella '17Massachusetts Maritime Academy7/71.090.79−0.3077th → 64th0.374%5.7 / 4.9
7Tobias Fitzgerald '16SUNY Maritime College7/70.53u0.81+0.2850th → 65th0.353%5.9 / 5.8
8John Kirk '16U. S. Merchant Marine Academy7/70.310.54+0.2339th → 52nd0.263%6.4 / 6.0
9Albert Biddle '17U. S. Military Academy7/7-0.45-1.13−0.683rd → 1st0.764%7.6 / 7.1

Conditions — 09/19/2015 (8am–6pm)

☀️Clear sky
Humidity 63%  ·  Pressure 1013.5 hPa

Temperature

77°F
↑ 81°F   ↓ 67°F
Feels like 80°F

Wind

● from   ▲ toward
5.9 kn
avg  ·  max 6.5 kn
Gusts to 14.8 kn
From S (177°)

Sky & Precipitation

Cloud cover31% Sunshine11.0 hrs Humidity63% Pressure1013.5 hPa

What this breeze does at Navy — from fleet racing

Breeze: S about 8 kn (weather reanalysis in the scorer’s units)
In fleet races at Navy in this breeze: a favourites’ day (+0.10)
Favourites’ conditions: in fleet racing here the results follow the ratings more closely than usual, and the top seeds hold their places.

Orderliness is how tightly a fleet race’s finishing order follows the pre-regatta ratings, relative to a typical event (0): positive is the favourites’ day, negative the underdogs’. A value of ±0.10 means a rating gap counts about 8% more than on a typical day. This event is not a fleet race the rating model scores, so there is no actual value for it: this is what this venue’s fleet racing history says about the breeze on the day, read off the chart at the star. How this is estimated · compare venues.

Orderliness beyond the fleet at Navy by wind direction (angle) and speed (rings), fitted surface; dots are labelled regatta-days, ★ this regatta (114 labelled fleet-race days at Navy).

From the notes

Short write-ups of what the ratings and results show, with the numbers and how they were computed.

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