[CQ-Contest] SO vs SOA (scores)

[kr2q at optimum.net]

Randy recently suggestion here that if you want to see the relative impact of being assisted
vs not assisted (impact on score), look at K5ZD, K1DG, K0DQ.

I did.  Hope this comes out OK.

The main point is that using assistance or being unlimited gets you more mults and hence
a bigger score (relatively speaking).

All of the top guys (such as these three) use SO2R.  If you are SO2R and using your 2nd
radio to find new Q's (hopefully, new mults), when you tune using the not-assisted method
you are "blind."  You don't know what your might find (which is fun).

When you are SO2R and use assistance on your second radio, you are not tuning "blind."
You know just where to go to grab new mults.  So it would seem obvious that using assistance
when SO2R would a higher mult and assuming you don't neglect running on radio 1, a higher
score.

I'm not sure that this has anything to do with why the categories are separate.  

In case this does not come out "pretty," Randy was assisted in 2012, 2014, 2015.  The 
other were not assisted (or at least they didn't claim assisted).  <grin>

If it doesn't come out "pretty" and you want to see this in Excel (where it is pretty),
send me a directly request and I'll send you the file.  Or do it yourself at CQWW.com
scores db.

de Doug KR2Q

year	call	Q	Z	C	Hours	SA HP ALL	SO HP ALL
2008	K5ZD/1	3955	132	463	44.4		6,666,975
	K1DG	3682	115	453	42		5,751,568
							
2009	K5ZD/1	3957	132	480	45.1		6,845,832
	K1DG	3851	134	485	44.9		6,614,634
							
2010	K5ZD/1	4587	154	524	41.6		8,940,786
	K1DG	4303	153	534	44.2		8,239,191
							
2011	K1DG	4795	163	582	45.3		10,189,365
	K5ZD/1	4904	168	561	44.4		10,160,802
	K0DQ/1	4910	159	541	42.5		9,703,400
							
2012	K5ZD/1	4647	167	629	41	10,523,916	
	K0DQ/1	4610	165	576	44.6		9,607,806
	K1DG	4333	160	562	44.8		8,630,788
							
2013	K0DQ/1	5540	152	498	45.3		10,297,950
	K5ZD/1	4945	160	547	45.6		10,050,712
	K1DG	849	95	271	13.7		862,296
							
2014	K5ZD/1	4993	190	697	44.3	12,768,365	
	K0DQ/1	5115	159	543	45.9		10,183,914
	K1DG	4901	164	558	44.1		10,065,402
							
2015	K5ZD/1	4742	179	654	44.9	11,275,488	
	K1DG	4563	157	523	44.9		8,778,120
	K0DQ/1	4870	143	495	44.1		8,723,374