Date: 8/11/2006
Name: Sam Trickey
email: trickey@ufl.edu
subject:PHRF rating
Posted essentially this same message yesterday to the yahoo group.Good grief! 229?! Who are they kidding? Doing this from memory and a very quick scan of stuff available at the office (all my handicapping info is at home) but that number is down in C&C 24, Hunter 23, Hunter 25.5, Cal 25, etc, territory and getting close to a Ranger 23 or Lindenberg 22.
229 is WAY too low.
At 252, I've raced against well-prepared Mirage 5.5s. They have a 240 if I remember right and it is very hard to beat them. I've also raced against a couple of really well-campaigned Lindenberg 22s (216? 222? again memory) in the Mug Race and cannot beat them.
Also be careful that Northwest US phrfs all are high because of a desire to offset (partially) some of the problems with fleets that span a big range of handicaps. What they do is scale all of the ratings by a multiplier. This helps slower boats relative to faster ones. If you read a phrf ratings book, you'll see this overall difference.
Send me the mathematics and I'll try to decode if I have time (professionally I'm a computational physicist).
peace, Sam
"El Gato" San Juan 21 mark II, sail number 1294
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