With another semester in the history books, it’s time for the BAA to play historian/statistician and make note of a few numbers that sum up the semester. As with the last edition of rolls statistics, the idea is just to document things and to give the orgs and sweepstakes some feedback on how things are going.
Fall 2009 (with the previous 2 semesters for comparison) looked like this
| Stat | Fall 08 | Spring 09 | Fall 09 |
| Days of rolls | 6 | 7 | 11 |
| Scheduled days canceled | 4 | 6 | 8 (5 rain-outs) |
| Total Rolls | 355 | 490 | 589 |
| Rolls per scheduled hour | 30.6 | 33.4 | 26.4 |
| Orgs / Buggies participating | 12 / 32 | 13 / 37 | 13 / 37 |
Damn! That was a lot of rolls! Although the pace was a bit slower than last fall, the fact that Sweepstakes scheduled almost twice as many days of rolls this year as compared to last gave teams some serious time on the course. The prevailing wisdom in my day was that lots of rolls means well practiced teams and lots of R&D which should make for a fast raceday. The fact that rolls are scheduled to start very early, on January 30th opens the door for another huge semester of rolls before raceday.
Other factoids:
- Most active teams : Fringe (95 rolls), CIA (91)
- Least active teams: KKG/ZBT (4), SAE (6)
- Most active buggy-driver combos: 3 way tie at 24 rolls each
- Fringe’s Becky Peterkin in Banyan
- Fringe’s Sarah Suhan in Blizzard
- SDC’s Laura Gurwitz in Envy
McCue says:
I remind everyone that it’s “KDR’s Sarah Suhan in Blizzard.”
She asked me also to sneak something in about how fast she is.
Janice Golenbock says:
Starting the semester early seems like a nice benefit of electing sweepstakes right after carnival instead of waiting for fall!
bordick says:
I’d still like to see the “most crashiest buggy/driver stuff.”
Sam Swift says:
I did see your request from last semester for crash statistics, but I don’t have the stats. The roll counts are public, so I can just tally things up. The incident reports are semi-private between sweepstakes and the orgs. I suppose I could go back through the Rolls Reports and aggregate, but we don’t see or remember everything, and I’d hate to slander anyone’s reputation for safety because of my biased recollection.
the cook says:
How about a graphical “Crash Chart” with little buggies smashed up against the curb, sometimes with drivers hanging out, and labels – using the satellite photo – it’ll look like a Graveyard of the Atlantic map.