Re: Autocross Timing/Scoring Software

[Paul Foster <pfoster@gdi.net>]

Steve Ashcraft wrote:
> 
> YES---And who cares if the timing equipment is 50% off if it is 50% off for
> all of the competitors and is always about 50% off for all of the events.
> The only interesting comparisons between drivers are usually based on a
> percentage and not a raw number of milliseconds.

This is exactly why I stated that precision is more important than
accuracy. As long as a run of xx.yyy seconds is exactly the same
duration for all competitors then the timer can do the job it needs to
do. I still think millisecond precision is necessary because there have
been numerous times where centisecond precision was not sufficient to
properly rank the finishers.

Paul Foster