[PaQSO] Scoring question

[Michael Coslo]

On Nov 1, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Bob Rossi wrote:

> I still don’t understand why the mobile/rover total contest county/section
> multiplier is used for each county a mobile/rover operates from.
> Like Tom originally asked - “How can you work 53 counties and 57 sections
> while only having 44 QSOs?”


It isn't difficult at all. Just so people know what we re talking about:

That Operator had 996 CW, 158 SSB for total of 1154 QSO's.
He had 53 counties, 57 sections, and 1 DX.
He operated form 19 counties, and received the bonus for all 19.

We score each county as part of the total party.
If a mobile or Rover scores those mults, they get full credit for them in each county.

In this way, at the end of the day, the individual county scores plus any applicable bonus points will add up to the same score as the aggregate summary.


> The individual county score should only include those multipliers worked
> from that county. After all, it’s the score for that county.

Except that the score is for the party. 

> Sure, the total mobile/rover score should include all the multipliers.

Interestingly, then there becomes two different scores, almost like two different parties. There is the one that is based on the total in the party, and there is a completely different score based on adding up the individual summaries.

> If you look at some of the PaQP results from the mid 90s (when the rover
> was first added), you will see individual rover county scores only included
> multipliers worked from that county. That makes perfect sense to me.

It was a different time, and much more competence at the helm in the day.

> And the overall total score includes all multipliers. And that makes
> perfect sense to me.

Well, there are different logics. To me, the math between the two should add up. The mobile station made X number of mults in the party. So they should get the mults.


> To me, somewhere along the line, something that made sense changed to
> something that doesn’t make sense.


It isn't that you are wrong. We just apply a different logic to the situation. While mine isn't perfect, it is not wrong either. In your system you can count LUZ (probably the biggest single participant county in the party) as a separate mult in each county.

I come from a world where the numbers have to match up at the end of the day. And since it makes the Ops score's higher, it can't be all bad. 8^)

	- 73 de Mike N3LI -