Meta-nonathlon 2018
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Meta-nonathlon 2018
Now that the 2018 season is well on its way, and everyone (?) is baking in the sun, this seems a good time to start a new season of the Free Spirits meta-nonathlon!
Here's a quick summary of the rules:
What is the Free Spirits meta-nonathlon?
The meta-nonathlon compares your nonathlon scores with those of your previous season. In essence, you are competing against your former self.
The scores will then be sorted into a Free Spirits meta-nonathlon ranking that shows who is doing the best job of improving on last year.
How does it work?
For every nonathlon distance (500m, 1k, 2k, etc.) and timed piece (30 min, 60 min) your 2018 nonathlon score will be divided by your 2017 score. The outcome is then multiplied by 100, giving a percentage as your score for that distance. So, managing a better score on a piece than in the previous season gives you a score over 100. The scores are rounded off to whole numbers, for easy-view purposes (showing decimals makes the sheet look messy). Just like in the nonathlon itself, the total score is calculated as the sum of the nine best individual scores (out of all 10). There is no bonus for doing all 10 distances though.
What if you didn't row all distances last year?
If you haven't entered a time/distance for a piece in the previous season, the score to beat will be equal to your highest score in that previous year. In my case, I didn't do a FM in the 2017 season. If I decide to do one in 2018, the 2017 benchmark is set at 855, which was my highest score in 2016 (for my 1k). There is a threshold of 5 ranked pieces though, so If you entered less than 5 nonathlon scores in the previous season, the benchmark for un-entered pieces will be set at 1000 instead of the highest ranked score. The sheet is sorted by the total score, so it still pays to do as much of the pieces as possible, even if you didn't enter a result in the season before.
What do you have to do to take part?
Nothing. If you did the nonathlon last year and Stan has added your name to the Free Spirits filter group on that website this season, your name will pop up in the meta-nonathlon automagically.
Where is it?
I will occasionally post a picture of the table in this thread, but you can always view it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =230342055
The left upper cell shows when the table was last updated. I'll try to update at least once a month, and hopefully more frequently.
What do the colours mean?
The cells are are colour coded:
- Dark green: over 2.5% better than last season (big improvement)
- Light green: less than 2.5% better than last season (modest improvement)
- Yellow: exactly the same as last season
- Orange: less than 2.5% worse than last season (small decline)
- Red: over 2.5% worse than last season (large decline).
Because scores are rounded off, cells with a score of 100 can be either yellow, orange or light green.
Let's do this!
Out of the 26 Free Spirits that signed up for the nonathlon so far this year, I was able to match 21 to last year's nonathlon.
I found no 2017 match for: avail, calalli, Ian Bee (FS), Jarflax and RichK. If any of you participated in last year's nonathlon under a different name, and you want to take part in the meta-nonathlon, let me know what your 2017 nonathlon name was and I will add you.
Here we go:
Here's a quick summary of the rules:
What is the Free Spirits meta-nonathlon?
The meta-nonathlon compares your nonathlon scores with those of your previous season. In essence, you are competing against your former self.
The scores will then be sorted into a Free Spirits meta-nonathlon ranking that shows who is doing the best job of improving on last year.
How does it work?
For every nonathlon distance (500m, 1k, 2k, etc.) and timed piece (30 min, 60 min) your 2018 nonathlon score will be divided by your 2017 score. The outcome is then multiplied by 100, giving a percentage as your score for that distance. So, managing a better score on a piece than in the previous season gives you a score over 100. The scores are rounded off to whole numbers, for easy-view purposes (showing decimals makes the sheet look messy). Just like in the nonathlon itself, the total score is calculated as the sum of the nine best individual scores (out of all 10). There is no bonus for doing all 10 distances though.
What if you didn't row all distances last year?
If you haven't entered a time/distance for a piece in the previous season, the score to beat will be equal to your highest score in that previous year. In my case, I didn't do a FM in the 2017 season. If I decide to do one in 2018, the 2017 benchmark is set at 855, which was my highest score in 2016 (for my 1k). There is a threshold of 5 ranked pieces though, so If you entered less than 5 nonathlon scores in the previous season, the benchmark for un-entered pieces will be set at 1000 instead of the highest ranked score. The sheet is sorted by the total score, so it still pays to do as much of the pieces as possible, even if you didn't enter a result in the season before.
What do you have to do to take part?
Nothing. If you did the nonathlon last year and Stan has added your name to the Free Spirits filter group on that website this season, your name will pop up in the meta-nonathlon automagically.
Where is it?
I will occasionally post a picture of the table in this thread, but you can always view it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =230342055
The left upper cell shows when the table was last updated. I'll try to update at least once a month, and hopefully more frequently.
What do the colours mean?
The cells are are colour coded:
- Dark green: over 2.5% better than last season (big improvement)
- Light green: less than 2.5% better than last season (modest improvement)
- Yellow: exactly the same as last season
- Orange: less than 2.5% worse than last season (small decline)
- Red: over 2.5% worse than last season (large decline).
Because scores are rounded off, cells with a score of 100 can be either yellow, orange or light green.
Let's do this!
Out of the 26 Free Spirits that signed up for the nonathlon so far this year, I was able to match 21 to last year's nonathlon.
I found no 2017 match for: avail, calalli, Ian Bee (FS), Jarflax and RichK. If any of you participated in last year's nonathlon under a different name, and you want to take part in the meta-nonathlon, let me know what your 2017 nonathlon name was and I will add you.
Here we go:
Last edited by Rodger on Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Agreed - apart from being able to destroy my former self. That's not going to happen but if I can get mostly 99's and a couple of 100's I'll take that
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43Mm metres rowed. Re-setting the bar much lower now. Getting too old for this malarky
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Thanks for taking the time to do this again Roger!
I'm somewhere between feeling proud of the fact I'm at number 1 and ashamed about how little rowing I've done the previous couple of seasons.
I'm somewhere between feeling proud of the fact I'm at number 1 and ashamed about how little rowing I've done the previous couple of seasons.
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Gregor, if I were you I'd focus on #1 Enjoy it while it lasts, next season it will be much more difficult.
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
I will have to file this statement under false modesty! You and Rob are the only ones who have scored over 900 points in all three seasons of the meta-nonathlon so far.
As the 9 best scores are counted, a total of 900+ means you're averaging above your previous year.
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Thanks Rodger - that was A nice ego boost for a Sunday morning
Again, thank you for your efforts on this, it's one of my favourite forum threads
Again, thank you for your efforts on this, it's one of my favourite forum threads
60 yrs old, 76kg, 5' 10"
43Mm metres rowed. Re-setting the bar much lower now. Getting too old for this malarky
43Mm metres rowed. Re-setting the bar much lower now. Getting too old for this malarky
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Thanks for doing this, Rodger. There's a lot of red in this table!
e-Clair
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He who eats the most custard wins.
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
I've missed this thread up till now. Thanks for doing this, very inspiring. I'll try to make everything green.
Kind regards,
Fred
Kind regards,
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
My plan is to post an update every Wednesday, so you'll all know when to expect one.
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Ill have to wait a year to see the improvements, I only started this year!
Cheers
Rich
Cheers
Rich
Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Hi Roger, could you add me for the 2018 season? Username is DavidWray last year as well.
Thank you!
David
Thank you!
David
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
To appear in this table, you have to ask Stan in the
nonathlon 2018 thread to add you to the Free Spirits filter list on that website.
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Another one greened... two to go. Unfortunately one of them is a HM
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Re: Meta-nonathlon 2018
Thanks very much Rodger, might have a go at improving my HM at the weekend
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