Larry White Trophy

# SchoolTeam A TOT
1 Yale University Yale University Bulldogs 2 2
2 U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears 4 4
3 Bowdoin College Bowdoin College Polar Bears 6 6
4 Tufts University Tufts University Jumbos 8 8
5 Northeastern University Northeastern University Huskies 10 10
6 Brown University Brown University Bears 12 12
7 Boston College Boston College Eagles 14 14
8 Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 16 16
SchoolTeam R1 R2 TOT
Yale University Yale University Bulldogs 1 1 2
U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears 2 2 4
Bowdoin College Bowdoin College Polar Bears 3 3 6
Tufts University Tufts University Jumbos 4 4 8
Northeastern University Northeastern University Huskies 5 5 10
Brown University Brown University Bears 6 6 12
Boston College Boston College Eagles 7 7 14
Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 8 8 16

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.

  • — in the performance column: last in every race sailed, so no finite least-surprisal rating exists.

Division A  8 boats · 2 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1Jack Egan '25Yale University2/23.067.00++3.9499th → 99th4.46%1.0 / 3.6
2Nathan Olmsted '23U. S. Coast Guard Academy2/23.244.24+1.0099th → 99th0.728%2.0 / 3.4
3Alden Grimes '21Bowdoin College2/22.513.52+1.0199th → 99th0.827%3.0 / 4.4
4Ansgar Jordan '22Tufts University2/22.212.99+0.7899th → 99th0.638%4.0 / 4.8
5Matt Hersey '22Northeastern University2/21.472.63+1.1689th → 99th1.235%5.0 / 5.9
6Jack Murphy '22Brown University2/22.811.92−0.9099th → 98th1.189%6.0 / 4.0
7Jack DeNatale '22Boston College2/22.491.39−1.1099th → 88th1.695%7.0 / 4.4
8Zachary York '24Maine Maritime Academy2/21.64——93rd → —2.8>99%8.0 / 5.6

Conditions — 10/16/2021 (8am–6pm)

☁️Overcast
Humidity 83%  ·  Pressure 1007.8 hPa

Temperature

70°F
↑ 72°F   ↓ 67°F
Feels like 70°F

Wind

● from   ▲ toward
12.0 kn
avg  ·  max 14.3 kn
Gusts to 30.5 kn
From S (190°)

Sky & Precipitation

Cloud cover79% Sunshine10.5 hrs Humidity83% Pressure1007.8 hPa Rain0.04 in

What this breeze does at Coast Guard — from fleet racing

Breeze: S about 13 kn (weather reanalysis in the scorer’s units)
In fleet races at Coast Guard in this breeze: a strongly 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 9% 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 Coast Guard by wind direction (angle) and speed (rings), fitted surface; dots are labelled regatta-days, ★ this regatta (57 labelled fleet-race days at Coast Guard).

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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