[CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes

Dave Mueller N2NL n2nl at n2nl.net
Wed May 27 20:52:43 EDT 2015


All this talk of inequality in scoring has got me thinking - what would 
be a solution that would be satisfactory to everyone? This is what I 
came up with:

Final Score X (CORRECTOR) = Final Corrected Score

Where (CORRECTOR) is some handicap value that accounts for disadvantages 
in location, antennas, power, equipment, and operator skill.

This formula can be simplified easily to this:

(Final Score X 0) + 1 = Final Corrected Score.

Add a Cabrillo line for credit card data to pay a new entry submission 
fee, and everyone gets a trophy, just like my kid's soccer team.  One 
bonus is that this formula will work for every contest.

73, Dave N2NL


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