[RTTY] About the RTTY World Rank List (RWRL)

[Tyler Stewart]

I was unaware you were using a weight factor, which certainly improves
things a bit.

I still question the validity of using some of them at all, but that's just
a personal thing.

73, Ty K3MM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Waldemar DK3VN" <dk3vn at nexgo.de>
To: "RTTY Contest" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:51 AM
Subject: [RTTY] About the RTTY World Rank List (RWRL)


> Hi,
>
> following the discussion about the subject "SO2R" I found a few
> interesting comments about the "RTTY World Ranking List (RWRL)".
> To this one of the comments, I want to respond via the reflector.
>
> Tyler Stewart wrote: ....
> >
> > Secondly I'd like to point out that the RTTY World ranking is based on
> > participation in a large number of RTTY contests, many of which I
consider
> > insignificant.  It's quantity more than quality.  If you dont operate
most
> > of the contests, you wont even make the top half of the list, no matter
how
> > well you do.
> >
> > Ty K3MM
>
> Each "World Rank List", which I know and I know a lot, each one
> is based on the participation in a more or less large number of
> competitions/contests! That's a standard and not a special idea
> of me; the creator of the RWRL. Why all this contests are in the
> RWRL and why other contests are not .. check out the RWRL @ Web.
>
> Let say: A tennis player is the winner of some Grand Slam's
> but is not very successfully in any other tournament or simply
> do not participate in many significant or insignificant
> tournaments. Do you believe you'll see this guy as #1 in the
> "TENNIS World Rank List"?
>
> In the "RTTY World Rank List (RWRL)" you will receive a lot of
> RWRL-Points if you participate SUCCESSFULLY in many significant
> AND insignificant contests. To be in the top 10, you must be
> very successful in almost all contests! That's the nature and
> the sense of a ranking system; always!
>
> Something about "significant/insignificant" contests and their
> weight in the RWRL.
>
> If you are creating and running a World Rank List, then you have
> to find an answer to the question: "Which competitions/contest
> is a significant one and which one is an insignificant?".
>
> In the RWRL I found the answer (for me :-) "The total number
> of >>logs-sent-in<< is the weight factor for the signification
> of a contest". On my Web Site you'll find more details about that.
>
> BTW: The weight factor of the "CQ/RJ WW DX" in comparison to
> the "Russian WW" is approx. six to one.
>
> At the end my post you'll see a list of all contests, which are
> counting for the RWRL, sorted by "Maximal Points" for the winner
> of this contest in the SOAB category(ies). On the top of this list
> you'll see the most significant contest (and the category) and
> at the bottom the most insignificant one.
>
> I am pretty sure, your personal list of "significant/insignificant"
> contests will be very similar to mine for the RWRL. If you know
> a better system, which is easy to understand, could be checked by
> everyone and is WITHOUT ANY PERSONAL PREFERENCES; then let me know!
>
> BTW: Your statement "It's quantity more than quality." is not very
> fair and not very friendly ..  ~:(
>
> Sorry about my English; but I hope you got my points?
>
> 73 de Waldemar, DK3VN
>
>                       Max-Pts    Weight
> CQ/RJ WW DX LP         171563       6,7
> CQ/RJ WW DX HP         158250       6,2
> CQ/RJ WW DX Assisted   153813       6,0
>
> CQ/RJ WPX LP           145313       5,7
> CQ/RJ WPX HP           133188       5,2
>
> ARRL RTTY Roundup LP   131938       5,2
> ARRL RTTY Roundup HP   117375       4,6
>
> BARTG Spring HF         82000       3,2
> BARTG Sprint            78250       3,1
> EA WW                   78250       3,1
> JARTS                   73500       2,9
> SARTG DX                71250       2,8
> WAEDC                   66250       2,6
> SP DX                   63750       2,5
>
> SCC RTTY LP             56438       2,2
> SCC RTTY HP             51063       2,0
>
> ANARTS                  55000       2,2
> XE RTTY                 43000       1,7
> OK RTTY                 33000       1,3
> Anatolian WW            26750       1,0
> Russian WW              25500       1,0
>
> --
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>
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