Penobscot Bay Open — Analysis

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Performance rating answers one question for each skipper: holding every other skipper's rating fixed, which rating makes my actual race-by-race finishes least surprising? It is the maximum-likelihood rating under the same Plackett–Luce model that produces the power rankings (how accurate it is), with each opponent fixed at their rating from the last rated week before this event (2026-W37). Substitute skippers are scored only on the races they sailed, and races the boat did not finish (OCS, DNF and similar) are left out.

Percentile places a rating among the 1,767 ICSA skippers who were rated within the year before this event, so it reads as “better than X% of the skippers racing in this league right now”. The arrow shows where the sailor stood going in and where this performance would put them.

Surprise is how many bits more surprising the sailor's finishes were at their pre-event rating than at their performance rating (0 = exactly as expected). P(this good or better) simulates the regatta 3,000 times with the sailor at their pre-event rating against the actual fleet, and reports how often they would score this many points or fewer in the races they skippered. Races in one regatta are not independent, so each simulation also gives every skipper a good or bad regatta, form that drifts from race to race, and the speed of each boat the rotation puts them in (why). Low means an unusually good regatta, high means an unusually poor one. It deliberately ignores how rivals actually sailed, so it agrees with the performance rating rather than with the division finish, which also depends on everyone else's day. Ratings are shown on the rankings scale (model rating × 100). Only skippers are rated; crews are not part of the model.

Division A  8 boats · 8 races

Fin Skipper School Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
Rating
after
1 Finn Deprez '29 Maine Maritime Academy 8/8 216 339 +123 80th94th 3.9 13% 2.2 / 3.2 231
2 Buck Rathbun '28 Boston University 8/8 192 200 +8 76th77th 0.0 99% 5.6 / 3.6 193
3 Jack Schneider '29 Salve Regina University 6/8 226 194 -33 81st76th 0.3 99% 5.7 / 3.2 225
3 Sean Morrison '27 Salve Regina University 2/8 115 182 +68 62nd74th 0.4 82% 6.0 / 4.6 118
4 Linden White '30 University of New Hampshire 8/8 131 161 +31 65th71st 0.3 97% 6.6 / 4.4 134
5 Andrew Richards '28 McGill University 8/8 122 197 +75 63rd77th 2.0 99% 7.0 / 4.6 145
6 Jack Whitman '27 Northeastern University 8/8 82 18 -64 56th44th 1.2 >99% 10.9 / 5.1 72
7 Luke Kenahan '27 Massachusetts Maritime Academy 8/8 138 34 -104 66th47th 4.6 >99% 11.0 / 4.3 129
8 Logan Ray '29 Bates College 8/8 -123 -82 +42 17th25th 0.2 >99% 14.0 / 7.2 -121

Division B  8 boats · 8 races

Fin Skipper School Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
Rating
after
1 Toby Clarkson '29 Maine Maritime Academy 8/8 236 322 +86 83rd93rd 1.6 97% 4.1 / 2.6 246
2 Robert Heath '29 Salve Regina University 8/8 193 234 +41 76th83rd 0.5 >99% 6.2 / 3.1 200
3 Caeden Nodurft '29 Northeastern University 8/8 152 174 +22 69th73rd 0.2 >99% 6.5 / 3.7 154
4 Graham Welsh '29 Boston University 8/8 101 73 -28 60th54th 0.3 >99% 10.2 / 4.4 99
5 Kevin Mcneill '28 Massachusetts Maritime Academy 8/8 42 82 +40 48th56th 0.6 >99% 11.4 / 5.3 49
6 Felix Ho '29 McGill University 8/8 105 22 -82 60th44th 2.6 >99% 12.4 / 4.4 100
7 Cole Norris '29 University of New Hampshire 8/8 -29 18 +47 35th44th 0.7 >99% 14.6 / 6.2 -22
8 Richard Nesti '30 Bates College 8/8 -46 -160 -114 32nd10th 2.4 >99% 17.2 / 6.4 -48