I could remind you how I kick your ass in my Corvette every event, does that
help? (ducking)
KeS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Creasy [mailto:black94pgt@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 19:21
> To: Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com; roadsterboy@earthlink.net;
> cmerritt@ati.com; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Team Rules (RE: TLH Tears it up in Marina)
>
>
> cool. im good with the sloth, lust, pride and gluttony. with my increasing
> age i am losing my edge with envy, covetousness and anger. any tips???
>
> -james c
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com>
> > Sloth, Lust, Envy, Pride, Covetousness, Anger, Gluttony.
> >
> > Been there, done that, have the T-shirt
> > (http://deadlysins.com/shop-peek.htm)...
> >
> > KeS
> >
> >
> > >From: "Scot Zediker" <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>
> > >Reply-To: "Scot Zediker" <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>
> > >To: "Carl Merritt" <cmerritt@ati.com>, "'James Creasy'"
> > ><black94pgt@pacbell.net>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > >Subject: Re: Team Rules (RE: TLH Tears it up in Marina)
> > >Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:16:37 -0800
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Carl Merritt" <cmerritt@ati.com>
> > >To: "'James Creasy'" <black94pgt@pacbell.net>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > >Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 12:15 PM
> > >Subject: Team Rules (RE: TLH Tears it up in Marina)
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ah, well, we would have to agree on some rules first... (remember, we
> > > > shelved that discussion until AFTER the race =P.
> > > >
> > > > Here's my suggestion:
> > > >
> > > > First off, we need to talk about the number of teams. Not that it
> > >really
> > > > matters, but Team Sloth might want to develop some sort of political
> > >rift
> > > > (BMW snobs pulling out and forming their own team?) since they are
> much
> > > > bigger than TLH.
> > >
> > >That would work for me. Split 'em into Team Sloth and Team Avarice!
> > >(those
> > >are the only two of the Seven Deadly Sins I can remember)
> > >
> > > > Derive an average index for each team. Since there are quite a few
> > >drivers
> > > > that are using street tires, I would recommend we apply an additional
> > >street
> > > > tire index. The easy way to get this index is take Street Touring and
> > > > subtract Street Touring S's index from it and you get .027, or 1.62
> > >seconds
> > > > per 60 seconds (a conservative number, but not bad and better than
> > >nothing).
> > > > So my ESP 300ZX's index would fall from a .822 to a .795.
> > >
> > >I think a better approach is to DIVIDE the STS index by that for STR. I
> > >came up with a "street tire multiplier" of .967, which changes your Z's
> > >index to... well, to .795. Okay, for most of us it works out the same
> > >either way, but I like my approach better. So there! :-b
> > >
> > >But then the problem we run into is, are these people claiming to be on
> > >street tires actually on street tires? For instance, I could lie about
> > >running my streets yesterday at Marina. If we adopt a modified index for
> > >street tires, I would end up with a PAX time that would look more
> > >appropriate for Andy McKee than myself if I told such a lie and you fell
> > >for
> > >it (not that I think you would). I like this approach in principle, but
> it
> > >may require a little too much policing for a friendly competition such as
> > >this one. This is just for fun after all.
> > >
> > > > Next, (and I'm sure I'm going to get lots of flack for this idea) I
> > >would
> > > > suggest that we approach this kinda like a Pro-Solo finale...take the
> > > > average indexed time for each team and apply a handicap modifier so
> that
> > >all
> > > > teams fished with an IDENTICAL time for this first event. Then for
> the
> > >next
> > > > two events, each team to win has to IMPROVE their times against how
> they
> > >did
> > > > in the first event because of the handicap index set in the first
> event.
> > > > Make sense?
> > >
> > >I don't really like this idea. It just mucks things up too much.
> > >
> > >This is a good start, though. We can probably come up with a workable
> > >scoring system about the time they finally decide who will be President
> ;)
> > >
> > >Scot - Leader of the Long-Haired Freaky People (at least that's what
> Katie
> > >K. called me) and SFR's Resident Burnout King
> > >'91 CS Miata
> > >Team Longhair
> >
> >
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> _________
> > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download :
> http://explorer.msn.com
|