Course Assignment

Updated: 2015-02-16

A leg in a class has an ordered set of courses. These are assigned to the competitors, rolling, by start number.

Example

Suppose there are three courses, A, B and C. Runner 1 gets course A, runner 2 course B, runner 3 course C, runner 4 course A, runner 5 course B, and so on. To fork a relay with thre legs and three courses, you can assign courses ABC to leg 1, BCA to leg 2, and CAB to leg 3.

But this is not optimal. You will get more out of the forking if you put ABCABC on leg 1, BCACAB on leg 2 and CABBCA on leg 3. Then there are six possible orders to run the course: ABC, BCA, CAB, ACB, BAC, and CBA. These are all possible orders over three courses.

The function Define Forking lets you easily construct an optimal forking key based on the courses you have. Select a number of course variants, the legs that should use these courses and then click Assign Selected Courses to Selected Legs. If other legs are supposed to use a different set of courses, you have to repeat this procedure until all legs has the right set of courses assigned. Then you click Calculate and Apply Forking. MeOS computes an optimal forking key from the courses; the result is best of the courses are forked with each other with certain common controls.

If you want to view the complete forking schemes for the teams as units, click Show Forking. You will also get further information if unfairness is detected. On the page Lists there is a list with the course assignment. For each competitor you see the assigned course.

MeOS Insight
If course pool is active, the course assignment is not final until the competitor has finished.

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