Agust Gudmundsson <<ag>> writes:

CIVL has published new document explaining the GAP2008 scoring
formula and options. The document is available at
http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/competitions/gap (see bottom of the page).
The document is a great improvement over previous explanation documents.

This can be improved even further, but for that we need your assistance. Please
contribute by sending CIVL or me directly any comments, suggestions and
corrections. We plan to have improved version in few months.

You can download the document
here. Be aware that GAP 2008 is not actually a specification of a formula
for scoring (unlike GAP 2000, GAP 2002, and OzGAP 2005), but rather a generic
name for the capability of creating a scoring system from parts of these scoring
formulas. It has already been shown that you can get into big trouble if you are
somewhat careless in how you construct your scoring system.

The document linked to above is quite nice and you'll also find the links to the
documentation for GAP 2000 and GAP 2002 on the same web page. Anyone interested
in scoring is encouraged to look at actually how the scoring is done.

My scoring program running in SeeYou uses basically the same algorithms and gets
the same results (for the same settings) as does FS. So this documentation just
gives you a better idea of what is going on behind the scenes in all the scoring
programs that use the GAP formulas.