As of 9/15/2008, the various rankings have been centralized to allow easier management, easier comparisons, and long term history.

Road Warriors

The Road Warrior rankings are a simple system of scoring every sailor at every regatta.  The system works as follows:

• At each regatta the finish of each sailor is recorded. 
• If sailor A finishes 1st and sailor B finishes 6th, than sailor A receives 1 point, and sailor B gets 6 points. 
• If sailor C did not attend the event, sailor C receives last plus one spot. 

So if 17 boats were at the regatta, sailor C gets 18 points because they did not attend.  This process is done for the entire season, so a sailor’s score is their finishes at all the regatta’s they sailed plus last + 1 for all the regatta’s they did not sail.  That gives the sailor their total score. 

Missing bigger events hurts more than smaller events.  For example, at this years Nationals there was 59 boats, so sailors that did not attend received 60 points.

Team Rankings

The Team Rankings work much the same as the Road Warrior except the top four boats are scored at every regatta for every Club.  If a Club had no boats show up then all four boats get last + 1. 

For example, if no boats from your Club attended Nationals this year, your Club received 60 points for all four boats.  So your team total would be 240 points at that event.  If your Club had one boat attend and it finished 21^st then the Club’s score would be 21 points for the boat that sailed and 60 points for the three boats that did not, a total of 201 points. 

If a Club has more than four boats that sailed, only the top four finishes are the Clubs score.

One important note: If your Club does have more then four boats sail, it still helps the Club because even though the only the top four are scored, the extra boats add points to any club that did not sail, or any boat from another Club that they beat that is being scored in their top four.  So this system rewards Clubs that both have large turnouts and also sail well.