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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
How many members do s-b have on the team? Is there a limit to the number of members a team can have? In all fairness the score should be normalized by the size of the team.
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I would say we have about 30 registered for the Tourney. So some more and some less than other teams.
Team S-B's advantages could be:
- We have a good collection of anglers competing
- We are benefiting from the "shore bass" ratio
- We are benefiting from having anglers all over though the fish have come from 3 predominant regions this year: RI shore, Ditch, Mass North Shore (we also don't place in any location specific categories because of this)
Advantages Team S-B is not having:
- No boat "Ringers"
- No Commercial Boat Pros
- No Large registrations
Other groups well represented by Shore guys:
Team Jersey Shore 497.36
all 10 from Shore
Martha's Vineyard Surfcasters 466.88
9 of 10 fish from shore
RISAA 357.58
4 of 10 from shore
Jersey Shore Surfcasters 348.47
9 of 10 fish from shore
"Fair" will certainly be a moving target in this competition. Last year the boat guys, especially heavy commercial boat guys, dominated this tourney. So last year the fairness was questioned by the disadvantage to the shore guys and the non commercial guys. Changes were made for the points ratio (I wouldn't be surprised if some boat guys are complaining hard about that this year). This year, Jersey fielded two good teams with mostly surfcasters and those results speak too. The time range of the Tourney seems to favor the boat guys too.
If the scoring was normalized by the amount of members, where else should it be normalized? Boat -v- Shore was done (and could be further tweaked), Rec -v- Comm?
I think every year there will be factors that contribute to how well a team does or not and those factors will change yearly too. This year the Jersey guys had a ton of pogies. Did that stop fish that should have gone from the Chesapeake to the Cape? what other facotrs could change the balance next year? No pogies in RI but all in Buzzards Bay or off the Islands? All in Boston Harbor?
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