levellinebrad Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 I've been shooting uspsa for about 4.5 years and still don't understand the classifier calculation enough to know which classifier will get dropped this week. I am currently at 70.9058 in open and have the following scores to make that up. Feb 9 18-04 P 82.9522 Feb 9 06-03 P 74.3100 Feb 02 F Jan 22 18-05 Y 66.7177 Jan 19 D Jan 19 B Jan 13 18.02 Y 78.9634 Jan 13. B Jan 13 B Jan 12 18-07 Y 70.3809 Jan 12 B Jan 12 B Dec 22 B Dec 08 03-05 Y 64.2767 Nov 10 B Nov 03 B Oct 13 F Oct 06 99-13 Y 72.7926 Sep 08 06-04 Y 72.3035 The way I understand the classification system is that the best 6 of the last 8 classifiers is what is used to calculate your current classification. That would mean that the 64% and the 66% would drop? Just checking to see if that's correct. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickBlasta Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 (edited) You are basically replacing the bottom two scores (the 72s) with the top ones. It's a +2.02% difference to your average. They are the oldest scores so they drop off first to make way for the top two. The "F"s remain your lowest and stay dropped. Edited February 11, 2019 by NickBlasta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levellinebrad Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 20 minutes ago, NickBlasta said: You are basically replacing the bottom two scores (the 72s) with the top ones. It's a +2.02% difference to your average. They are the oldest scores so they drop off first to make way for the top two. The "F"s remain your lowest and stay dropped. That is what I used to think as well but if you look at the rules it is the best six out of the last eight. It does not say anything about oldest. I hope that you are right because I would like to stay in B class for a while longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickBlasta Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, levellinebrad said: That is what I used to think as well but if you look at the rules it is the best six out of the last eight. It does not say anything about oldest. I hope that you are right because I would like to stay in B class for a while longer. Yes. "Last" 8 is the 8 most recent valid classifiers. Since the top two are valid scores, they bump out the oldest two valid scores. They become "E". The current two lowest, the "F"s are still your two lowest of the 8 and stay F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gng4life Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Nick is correct, the key word being "most recent"... "... scores in the most recent six or eight scores." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balakay Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 3 hours ago, levellinebrad said: .... best six out of the last eight. It does not say anything about oldest... The LAST EIGHT= The newest. Therefore, the OLDEST gets dropped. If you go to the USPSA website, look at the CONCISE view under the classifier lookup. It might be easier for you to follow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastcat Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 7 hours ago, levellinebrad said: I've been shooting uspsa for about 4.5 years and still don't understand the classifier calculation enough to know which classifier will get dropped this week. I am currently at 70.9058 in open and have the following scores to make that up. Feb 9 18-04 P 82.9522 Feb 9 06-03 P 74.3100 Feb 02 F Jan 22 18-05 Y 66.7177 Jan 19 D Jan 19 B Jan 13 18.02 Y 78.9634 Jan 13. B Jan 13 B Jan 12 18-07 Y 70.3809 Jan 12 B Jan 12 B Dec 22 B Dec 08 03-05 Y 64.2767 Nov 10 B Nov 03 B Oct 13 F Oct 06 99-13 Y 72.7926 Sep 08 06-04 Y 72.3035 The way I understand the classification system is that the best 6 of the last 8 classifiers is what is used to calculate your current classification. That would mean that the 64% and the 66% would drop? Just checking to see if that's correct. Thanks. Yes, the 2 current scores marked with a "P" are entered scores and have not been updated to your classification record. When they do process these 2 entered scores, which I believe they are now once a week on Wednesday. Then the 64 and 66 will be dropped. Also, you already have 2 scores in the A bracket (82.9% and 78.9%), all you need is 4 more to move up to an Open A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balakay Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Lastcat said: Also, you already have 2 scores in the A bracket (82.9% and 78.9%), all you need is 4 more to move up to an Open A. Not exactly. You do not need 6 A scores to move up to A class. Your average of the best 6 of the last 8 needs to be greater than 75%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastcat Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 1 minute ago, Balakay said: Not exactly. You do not need 6 A scores to move up to A class. Your average of the best 6 of the last 8 needs to be greater than 75%. True, I didn't get into the details when I said, "all you need is 4 more..." I could have said 4 more that get your current average about 75%, but left that out for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levellinebrad Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 9 hours ago, NickBlasta said: Yes. "Last" 8 is the 8 most recent valid classifiers. Since the top two are valid scores, they bump out the oldest two valid scores. They become "E". The current two lowest, the "F"s are still your two lowest of the 8 and stay F. Gotcha. I think it was the F’s that had me worried. I couldn’t remember what the deal was with those but if they stay, then I’m good to go. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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