SAISA Women's Singlehanded Championship

SchoolSailor R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 TOT
College of Charleston College of Charleston Bella Shakespeare '27 1 1 3 2 3 4 3 3 3 23
College of Charleston College of Charleston Ashley Alfortish '27 2 2 1 3 2 2 5 6 4 27
University of South Florida University of South Florida Ghislaine Van Empel '27 4 6 4 4 5 1 1 1 2 28
Rollins College Rollins College Annie Samis '29 5 5 6 1 1 3 2 4 1 28
University of Miami University of Miami Reese Kottke '30 6 3 2 5 4 6 4 5 5 40
University of Miami University of Miami Caitlin Dean '30 3 4 5 8 6 5 6 2 7 46
College of Charleston College of Charleston Madilyn Anderson '29 8 7 8 7 8 8 7 7 6 66
College of Charleston College of Charleston Gaelen Adam '29 7 8 7 6 7 7 8 9 8 67
Florida Institute of Technology Florida Institute of Technology Abigail Hesterhagen '28 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 80

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 singlehanded rating rather than the fleet rating: 0.79 × the skipper's fleet rating from the week before the event (unrated skippers start at 1.25); the skipper's own singlehanded offset. Strength differences are scaled by 0.80 before they become probabilities, the value that calibrates the model on seasons it had not seen. Non-finishes (OCS, DNF and similar) are left out of the fitting, as in the rating model.

Percentile places a rating among the 309 ICSA sailors with a singlehanded 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 singlehanded 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 · 9 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1Bella Shakespeare '27College of Charleston Cougars 29/92.553.54+0.9966th → 92nd2.216%2.6 / 3.8
2Ashley Alfortish '27College of Charleston Cougars 19/92.692.94+0.2472nd → 81st0.234%3.0 / 3.6
3Annie Samis '29Rollins College9/92.562.83+0.2766th → 78th0.230%3.1 / 3.8
3Ghislaine Van Empel '27University of South Florida9/92.392.84+0.4661st → 78th0.527%3.1 / 4.0
5Reese Kottke '30University of Miami Hurricanes 19/92.022.11+0.0952nd → 54th0.054%4.4 / 4.4
6Caitlin Dean '30University of Miami Hurricanes 29/90.841.54+0.7019th → 38th1.227%5.1 / 5.9
7Madilyn Anderson '29College of Charleston Cougars 49/91.020.02−0.9924th → 6th2.993%7.3 / 5.6
8Gaelen Adam '29College of Charleston Cougars 39/90.71u-0.10−0.8117th → 5th1.791%7.4 / 6.0
9Abigail Hesterhagen '28Florida Institute of Technology9/9-1.36-2.82−1.461st → 1st1.495%8.9 / 7.9

Conditions — 09/12/2026 (8am–6pm)

🌦️Light drizzle
Humidity 82%  ·  Pressure 1016.5 hPa

Temperature

84°F
↑ 89°F   ↓ 79°F
Feels like 95°F

Wind

● from   ▲ toward
3.0 kn
avg  ·  max 6.3 kn
Gusts to 14.8 kn
From SSW (194°)

Sky & Precipitation

Cloud cover72% Sunshine8.1 hrs Humidity82% Pressure1016.5 hPa Rain0.42 in

What this breeze does at U. Miami — from fleet racing

Breeze: S about 6 kn (weather reanalysis in the scorer’s units)
In fleet races at U. Miami 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% 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 U. Miami by wind direction (angle) and speed (rings), fitted surface; dots are labelled regatta-days, ★ this regatta (20 labelled fleet-race days at U. Miami).

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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