{"id":1318,"date":"2009-11-05T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T20:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2009-11-11T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:41:50","slug":"calculating-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Calculating scores&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Abacus.gif\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 100px\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"100\"  width=\"100\" \/>So, if you have climbers of different weights carrying different payloads and having different times to complete the run, how do you come up with a fair way to judge who the winner is?<\/p>\n<p>The way Spaceward has done this is to give\u00a0preference to climber speed and to payload ratio (the amount of payload vs. the weight of the climber).\u00a0 In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorgames.org\/first-day-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest post<\/a> on the Official Site of the Space Elevator Games, we learn that the formula used to calculate this is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The speed of the climb (in meters\/second) times the payload (in kilograms) divided by the weight of the climber (again, in kilograms).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This formula allows the user to normalize the results; i.e. put them in a format where you can do an &#8216;apples to apples&#8217; comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Plugging in the numbers for LaserMotive&#8217;s best run yesterday, you get a score of .45.\u00a0 Other teams will try to beat this.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Update Nov 11 &#8211; Reader Joel Polowin points out an obvious mistake I made.\u00a0 The speed factor is meters\/second, NOT total elapsed seconds.\u00a0 My bad.\u00a0 I fixed the post.\u00a0 Thanks Joel&#8230;) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you have climbers of different weights carrying different payloads and having different times to complete the run, how do you come up with a fair way to judge who the winner is? The way Spaceward has done this is to give\u00a0preference to climber speed and to payload ratio (the amount of payload vs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}