Jim Wooten
Just Me
If one shooter HOGS the placings in a match, does one shooter alone gets SOY points? Say you were to place first and second, would there be no second place points awarded? Does the statistician step over the second placing and award second place points to third place and so on?
Pete,
Any placing by the additional rifle(s) means that those points do not get awarded under the present system. No shooters move up for points or placing.
As I stated in an earlier post, one shooter with three rifles in the same class could receive all 9 trophies in a grand agg match (if he placed first, second, and third), and the points for first place. NO POINTS would be awarded for second or third place to ANY shooter.
Shooters also do not move up for Precision Rifleman points if a shooter that placed ahead of them with multiple rifles bumped them out of the normally awarded positions.
Let me say that I shot two rifles several times this year. I shot a light varmint at times in 30 PPC or BR, and a 30PPC heavy varmint when I was experimenting with 30PPC. I also shot a second 30BR to use up some older loads that I wanted to empty for annealing. I seldom get to the range between matches, so I used the opportunity for "testing under match conditions". Now, I am FAR from a good shooter, but in some of those matches both rifles placed. I have to say that I had very mixed feelings about keeping some deserving shooter from points and placing. I can see how this could eventually keep some shooters from attending matches, if other shooters regularly get more than one trophy in a yardage or grand, and prevent them from getting SSOY points.
I have only been shooting Score for a bit less than three years, but I have noticed an interesting trend. In 2006 it took 46 points to get into the Top 20 for SSOY. In 2007 it took 38 points, but there was only one below 41 points. In 2008 it took 34 points, and there were five in the 30's. It would be pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if there is any relationship between the decreasing Top 20 point threshold and a possible increase in the number of top shooters shooting multiple rifles (meaning fewer points awarded to second or third places). I really have no idea, but it is food for thought.
I guess it shouldn't really matter to me, since I don't have the ability or the energy to chase Score Shooter of the Year. I didn't even make it to the maximum number of "record matches" this year due to several unexpected situations, and may attend even fewer in the upcoming year if the economy doesn't improve, but for someone working their way up the competitive ladder it might matter.
Jim
PS: I see that there has already been a clarification about the awarding of points. I type slow .