Handicap Drift over a Season ~ detecting it and Correcting it

Background.

Because handicapping of boats is purely relative (within the group) drift is not really an issue. In saying that, it becomes an issue when (for example) a boat misses a block of races mid-season. A boat that does not receive a time stamp for ‘this’ race has its Allocated Handicap for ‘this’ race rolled forward to the ‘next’ race. It the remaining fleet’s handicap is drifting down, and the non-starter re-joins the competition that re-joining boat will have a handicap advantage, and (depending on the drift speed and the number of missed races) could quite possibly win on corrected time: an outcome that would be considered by the other competitors as unfair.

Additionally, he is likely to continue winning until the auto-adjusting handicap system ‘catches up’.

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Calculation of  Handicap.

See the Separate document: How the Next Handicap is Calculated