Notes
Rather than heavily footnote various Performance Tracker pages, this page of
notes is generally applicable to all of them.
If you have further questions or comments, please send them by email to Dave Jackson
at djackson@wavecable.com.
- If you specified a nickname while registering
(mandatory for children),
it is used as your web name in the Performance Tracker.
Otherwise your own name (first-name last-name) is used.
To add a nickname or change your current nickname,
just send us an updated name.
Web name length is limited to 20 characters (including spaces).
The first character must be a letter.
- In determining top performers in the various activities (see link at left),
which includes pledges,
the software does not check for ties. If you are tied with someone else, and
you would like your name to appear,
submit your recent gain(s) and break the tie.
- With the exception of per-unit pledges, all data are rounded to the nearest
whole number for display.
Thus the sum of the entries in a column may not quite match
the amount in a totals line.
- Units are in miles except for swimming (pool lengths) and
birding (unique species).
- Totals of units are in miles (birding is excluded), which includes swimming.
The software converts pool lengths to miles on the basis that
at the SARC swimming pool in Sequim, 72 pool lengths = 1 mile.
A "lap" is 2 pool lengths.
- Pledges are per-unit, the unit being miles except for birding, which counts
unique species found within the Spring Fling Window.
Swimmers obtaining pledges per pool length or lap will need to convert
such data to the per-mile equivalent (divide by 72 or 36)
for use in the Performance Tracker.
- For convenience in the software, all participants are assigned a minimum pledge of
one cent per unit of mileage (or species for birding). This is ignored
on the Top Performers page.
- Any multi-person total of birding species in the Performance Tracker tables
is merely the sum of the species found by
each participant. As everyone is counting common birds like robins, the
total probably will considerably exceed the number of unique species found.
Birding team totals, however, are unique species -- which ultimately
will be supported by submission of a species list.
