NESSA Single Handed Championship (Healy) - Laser

SchoolSailor R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 TOT
Tabor Academy Tabor Academy Thad Lettsome '20 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 2 1 16
Fairfield Prep Fairfield Prep Chase Reynolds '20 2 2 2 4 4 2 3 3 6 5 2 35
Greely High School - Maine Greely High School - Maine George Holt '19 4 3 4 5 3 1 4 4 2 4 3 37
St. George's School St. George's School Jack Fisher '20 3 4 6 3 5 5 2 2 1 3 4 38
Moses Brown School Moses Brown School Alexander Runci '19 6 5 3 2 2 4 5 6 4 1 5 43
Portsmouth Abbey School Portsmouth Abbey School Evan Boyd '19 5 6 5 6 6 6 6 5 5 6 6 62

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 1.11); 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 495 ISSA 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.

Division A  6 boats · 11 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1Thad Lettsome '20Tabor Academy11/112.984.15+1.1698th → 99th2.38%1.5 / 2.3
2Chase Reynolds '20Fairfield Prep11/111.581.79+0.2175th → 80th0.139%3.2 / 3.5
3George Holt '19Greely High School - Maine11/111.351.78+0.4368th → 80th0.640%3.4 / 3.6
4Jack Fisher '20St. George's School11/111.581.45−0.1375th → 71st0.153%3.5 / 3.5
5Alexander Runci '19Moses Brown School11/111.150.95−0.2063rd → 57th0.154%3.9 / 3.8
6Evan Boyd '19Portsmouth Abbey School11/110.53-0.70−1.2339th → 8th3.398%5.6 / 4.3

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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