MN Laser State Championship Full

# SchoolSailor TOT
1 Southwest High School Southwest High School Paul Wang '24 6
2 Wayzata High School Wayzata High School Rafael Larsen-Zarzosa '23 12
3 Washburn High School Washburn High School Leo Markus '23 15
4 Wayzata High School Wayzata High School Robert Jones '23 18
5 Southwest High School Southwest High School Leif Rush '27 24
SchoolSailor R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 TOT
Southwest High School Southwest High School Paul Wang '24 1 1 1 2 1 6
Wayzata High School Wayzata High School Rafael Larsen-Zarzosa '23 3 2 3 1 3 12
Washburn High School Washburn High School Leo Markus '23 2 5 2 4 2 15
Wayzata High School Wayzata High School Robert Jones '23 4 3 4 3 4 18
Southwest High School Southwest High School Leif Rush '27 5 4 5 5 5 24

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.

  • u no fleet rating — the model's level for unrated skippers is the baseline.

Division A  5 boats · 5 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1Paul Wang '24Southwest High School Lakers 25/50.373.69+3.3233rd → 99th6.13%1.2 / 2.7
2Rafael Larsen-Zarzosa '23Wayzata High School Navy 25/51.01u0.52−0.4958th → 39th0.364%2.4 / 2.3
3Leo Markus '23Washburn High School5/5-0.19-0.17+0.0116th → 17th0.050%3.0 / 3.1
4Robert Jones '23Wayzata High School Navy 15/5-0.57-0.24+0.3210th → 15th0.163%3.6 / 3.4
5Leif Rush '27Southwest High School Lakers 15/5-0.87-2.98−2.116th → 1st3.098%4.8 / 3.6

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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