Phil Harman Cup

# SchoolTeam A TOT
1 Brown University Brown University Bears 27 27
2 Northeastern University Northeastern University Huskies 29 29
3 Bowdoin College Bowdoin College Polar Bears 29 29
4 Tufts University Tufts University Jumbos 32 32
5 Boston University Boston University Terriers 33 33
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers 42 42
7 Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 44 44
8 Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers 56 56
SchoolTeam R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 TOT
Brown University Brown University Bears 8 3 2 2 6 3 2 1 27
Northeastern University Northeastern University Huskies 1 6 1 1 8 5 5 2 29
Bowdoin College Bowdoin College Polar Bears 4 4 4 5 3 2 3 4 29
Tufts University Tufts University Jumbos 2 2 8 6 1 6 4 3 32
Boston University Boston University Terriers 5 8 3 4 2 4 1 6 33
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers 3 1 5 3 DSQ 8 8 7 42
Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 6 5 6 8 DSQ 1 7 5 44
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 8 56

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.

Division A  8 boats · 8 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1Patrick Shanahan '19Brown University8/82.692.16−0.5399th → 99th0.965%3.4 / 3.1
2Kyle Riggs '21Northeastern University8/81.012.22+1.2275th → 99th4.08%3.6 / 5.4
2William Hawk '18Bowdoin College8/82.242.39+0.1499th → 99th0.152%3.6 / 3.7
4Samuel Shea '19Tufts University8/81.961.78−0.1799th → 96th0.150%4.0 / 4.1
5Charles Welsh '18Boston University8/81.941.84−0.1099th → 97th0.055%4.1 / 4.1
6Cutter O'Connell '18Massachusetts Institute of Technology8/81.880.98−0.9097th → 73rd2.586%5.5 / 4.2
7Graham Roeber '19Maine Maritime Academy8/80.921.41+0.4871st → 88th0.761%5.9 / 5.5
8Braden Foster '19Massachusetts Maritime Academy8/80.780.99+0.2162nd → 73rd0.289%7.0 / 5.8

Conditions — 09/09/2017 (8am–6pm)

🌤️Mainly clear
Humidity 74%  ·  Pressure 1021.9 hPa

Temperature

64°F
↑ 68°F   ↓ 58°F
Feels like 63°F

Wind

● from   ▲ toward
5.8 kn
avg  ·  max 6.6 kn
Gusts to 20.0 kn
From NNW (341°)

Sky & Precipitation

Cloud cover25% Sunshine11.0 hrs Humidity74% Pressure1021.9 hPa Rain0.01 in

What this breeze does at Maine Maritime — from fleet racing

Breeze: N about 8 kn (weather reanalysis in the scorer’s units)
In fleet races at Maine Maritime in this breeze: a strongly underdogs’ day (−0.16)
Underdogs’ conditions: in fleet racing here the fleet bunches up and lower-rated boats beat the seeds more often than usual.

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 ±0.16 means a rating gap counts about 14% less 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 Maine Maritime by wind direction (angle) and speed (rings), fitted surface; dots are labelled regatta-days, ★ this regatta (15 labelled fleet-race days at Maine Maritime).

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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