2017 laps scored
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:57 pm
I am pretty sure I am likely the only one to find this interesting but I will post it anyway. The Mototally scoring system tracks all kinds of things and in 2017 there were 10540 laps recorded. The system also tracks if the scoring ladies ever have to hand enter someone. This can be a transponder not reading or a visor missing and so on. In that total there were only 151 hand entries which is a 98.57 read rate on our system. We have come a long way from the bread tag system!!
For those of you too young or not in the sport that long, back in the 90's, I think, when you signed up you were given a metal shower ring gizmo and it had those plastic square bread tag things with your number on each of them. Each lap you would stop at scoring, sometimes there was a waiting line of a few people, and they would pull one of those tags off. They would then hang it on a huge piece of plywood with rows of nails. After the race the scoring person would look across the board and the most bread tags would be on the lead lap. They would then use a written back up sheet to determine the finish order for 8 laps then 7 laps and so on. Windy days made scoring difficult!! I was not in the scoring biz back then and darn glad of it!
Right before we changed to computer scoring in 2002 there was a huge sheet of poster board and the numbers were written right on it in rows top to bottom for each lap in the order they came in. Lines were drawn from the first row to the second and so on and you could see a rider moving up or down as the case was. On the final lap the finish order was usually how the trophies were handed out. There were back up sheets also but finding a scoring error was very hard and finding a rider with suspicious short laps was impossible. Many times trophies were not handed out for a minimum of one hour and longer than that too many times.
Up until 2004 or so the average turnout was between 50 and 60. A huge day was 100. Yesterday at Heartland we had 197! That would have been a lot of bread tags!
For those of you too young or not in the sport that long, back in the 90's, I think, when you signed up you were given a metal shower ring gizmo and it had those plastic square bread tag things with your number on each of them. Each lap you would stop at scoring, sometimes there was a waiting line of a few people, and they would pull one of those tags off. They would then hang it on a huge piece of plywood with rows of nails. After the race the scoring person would look across the board and the most bread tags would be on the lead lap. They would then use a written back up sheet to determine the finish order for 8 laps then 7 laps and so on. Windy days made scoring difficult!! I was not in the scoring biz back then and darn glad of it!
Right before we changed to computer scoring in 2002 there was a huge sheet of poster board and the numbers were written right on it in rows top to bottom for each lap in the order they came in. Lines were drawn from the first row to the second and so on and you could see a rider moving up or down as the case was. On the final lap the finish order was usually how the trophies were handed out. There were back up sheets also but finding a scoring error was very hard and finding a rider with suspicious short laps was impossible. Many times trophies were not handed out for a minimum of one hour and longer than that too many times.
Up until 2004 or so the average turnout was between 50 and 60. A huge day was 100. Yesterday at Heartland we had 197! That would have been a lot of bread tags!