schmidtg

Ah, my mistake - it looks like his score on Roundabout will go from 12.54 seconds to 120.00 seconds. So the calculation is correct (I thought that all scores on that stage are dropped the moment the best run is dropped, but it still retains the newer scores even if they are lower than the best in previous calendar years).

https://scsa.org/classification/A121170 Division: CO

It looks like these deltas might be calculated in a buggy way for shooters with stages from 2021 that will fall off in Jan 2024. For instance, the analysis says that @CClassForLife will go down in by over 3000 places in 2024, but I ran the calculation manually and it looks like his classification percentage will increase next month from 85% to over 86% even when accounting for the new peak times.

Could go either way. I don't think they specified whether the classification run on Wednesday January 3rd will use 2023 or 2024 PSTs. We shall see.

It's a shame that this thing doesn't take AXG grip panels. The Cheely-esque grip texture is cool but might not be everyone's cup of tea.

The fact that LO has not been added to SCSA is an implicit statement that "frame-mounted optics and compensators don't matter to any significant degree". In that case, why are peak times for OPN so much lower than CO? And yet another contradiction - if PROD is to CO as LTD should be to LO, why does LTD exist but not LO? There is no optics analogue to LTD which means the divisions in incongruent with one another. As a match director for Level 1 SCSA matches, I've met a huge number of shooters who are very confused as to why they can't shoot their slide-ride single-action gun in a dedicated division as they can in USPSA/PCSL. And I don't buy the argument that going from 13 to 14 divisions will dilute the sport. Most people invested in the game are already shooting multiple divisions at SCSA matches (be they Level 1/2/3).

Based on the data exposed from this (excellent) data mine, the 2024 peak time adjustments for don't make sense to me on a multitude of levels: Why is CO receiving such a large reduction to Peak time if it has a relatively small number of active GMs/Individuals above 100% compared to non-holster divisions? Why does SC-108 Roundabout now have a lower peak time than SC-103 Smoke And Hope? The latter is a significantly faster stage across the spectrum at both the medium skill level and top-level competition at the WSSC. Why is PCCI only 5.25 seconds faster than OPN? That's outrageous considering PCCI gets to skip the draw on 31 scoring strings across an 8-stage match. Assuming a PCC presentation is faster than a draw by .5 (which is conservative since the draw is arguably the hardest fundamental skill to master), that alone constitutes a 15.5 second delta across those 31 strings. At least knock PCCI down to RFRI's level since there's no significant difference between those divisions when using a competitive firearm. Same story with RFPI. Its Peak Time has absolutely no business being only ~3 seconds from Open across 8 stages. SCSA doesn't appear to have any real methodology for setting peak times based on the stark difference between divisions in terms of classification stratification. This problem has been acknowledged but I don't think the peak time reductions address this problem in the slightest.