Race Series - Scoring

Races will be categorised based on their quality and competitiveness as follows:

· The Senior Track and Field Championships of Ireland will be the only Category I race.
· All other races will be categorised based on the standard of the athletes in the race.

A Category II race must have 4 Top Ranked athletes. A Category III race will have less than 4 Top Ranked athletes present. A list of Top Ranked athletes can be found elsewhere in this blog.

The scoring system for a Category I, II & III races will be as follows:












Bonus points on offer for achieving a PB:
Cat 1 Race: 3 points
Cat 2 Race: 2 points
Cat 3 Race: 1 point

A maximum of five races per Athlete can be used for scoring purposes. Where an Athlete participates in six or more races, his/her best five scores using the scoring system will be used.



Scoring Thresholds:

Due to the quality and depth in Irish Sprinting, an athlete must beat a certain threshold to score points on the league table:

Mens
100m | 11.14
200m | 22.42
400m | 50.00

Womens
100m | 12.35
200m | 25.35
400m | 57.12

For example in the Mens 100m, you must run sub 11.14 if you want to score points. The thresholds are based on Hungarian Tables to get equivalent times across the 100m, 200m, 400m and also compare to the 20th ranked time in the Irish Top 20 Rankings.


Note: In 2011 it is intended to use the Indoor and Outdoor Irish Racing calendar to feature approximately 10 races as the ‘Irish Sprinters Race Series’. A standard league scoring system across all events would be used, with double points for the nationals. This will favour the athlete who has raced in most of the series and has been a consistent performer.