Boudeman Cup

# SchoolTeam A TOT
1 Michigan State University Michigan State University Spartans 2 7 7
2 Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State University Lakers 8 8
3 Michigan State University Michigan State University Spartans 1 8 8
4 Northwestern University Northwestern University Wildcats 9 9
5 Western Michigan University Western Michigan University Broncos 16 16
SchoolTeam R1 R2 R3 TOT
Michigan State University Michigan State University Spartans 2 2 3 2 7
Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State University Lakers 1 4 3 8
Michigan State University Michigan State University Spartans 1 3 1 4 8
Northwestern University Northwestern University Wildcats DNF 2 1 9
Western Michigan University Western Michigan University Broncos DNF 5 5 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  5 boats · 3 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1Thomas Weykamp '28Michigan State University Spartans 23/3-0.310.73+1.045th → 61st1.120%2.3 / 3.4
2Logan Thien '29Grand Valley State University3/3-0.070.42+0.4914th → 43rd0.337%2.7 / 3.2
2Ryan Dodge '26Michigan State University Spartans 13/3-0.02-0.26−0.2415th → 6th0.140%2.7 / 3.1
4Cole Abbott '26Northwestern University3/30.861.91+1.0568th → 98th0.683%3.0 / 2.3
5Jack Charlton '27Western Michigan University3/30.08——20th → —4.9>99%5.3 / 3.0

Conditions — 09/27/2025 (8am–6pm)

☀️Clear sky
Humidity 62%  ·  Pressure 1013.3 hPa

Temperature

73°F
↑ 79°F   ↓ 60°F
Feels like 73°F

Wind

● from   ▲ toward
5.4 kn
avg  ·  max 6.1 kn
Gusts to 14.2 kn
From WSW (241°)

Sky & Precipitation

Cloud cover1% Sunshine10.0 hrs Humidity62% Pressure1013.3 hPa

What this breeze does at Western Michigan — from fleet racing

Breeze: SW about 8 kn (weather reanalysis in the scorer’s units)
In fleet races at Western Michigan in this breeze: a typical day (−0.02)
Nothing in this breeze favours either side in fleet racing here: results follow the ratings about as 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 ±0.02 means a rating gap counts about 2% 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 Western Michigan by wind direction (angle) and speed (rings), fitted surface; dots are labelled regatta-days, ★ this regatta (no labelled days at Western Michigan: the all-venue pattern is shown).

From the notes

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

All notes →