2000 BAOC ADVANCED RANKINGS
Annual rankings summarize the year's competition. Every club
member with at least four runs on their advanced color course at
a club ranking event during the year should appear on a ranking
list. Scores of runners with only three runs or who stepped down
are listed below the official list. Brown is an exception in that
it is not restricted to age groups. The methodology, which has
been in use for several years, is summarized below the ranking
lists. The significance and some of the shortcomings of the
rankings was discussed in the Bulletin with the1999 list, as were
criteria for ranking events. 1999 and prior lists can be found at
http://orienteer.com/technical/.
While no system can be perfect, the results can be fairly
reliable by using the best data and reasonable subjective
judgment. I hope you find them interesting and accurate and
perhaps a basis for evaluating your own 2000 performance and goal
setting for 2001. Hopefully, these lists will give a good sense
of how competitors would stack up at a fair competition where
everyone ran their typical 2000 race. I would be very interested
to have any, comments, questions or suggestions. Please send them
to joe@orienteer.com.
BROWN
1 Minarik George 5 105.8 15 Seaman Jill 4 50.4
2 Aster Scott 3 82.9 16 Johnson Rosemary 6 48.5
3 VanHoff Deron 6 81.4 17 Gerstner Meg 4 48.4
4 DeMoss Harold 5 80.4 18 Shirley Christine 6 38.4
5 Kirschenbaun Lief 7 74.9 19 Lindeman Nancy 12 32.7
6 Maclean Stephanie 7 72.5 20 French Dean 4 32.6
7 Freund Dwight 4 68.8
8 Ilmarinen Heini 4 63.8 Glendinning Alan 3 89.8
9 Lee Vivian 7 60.1 Jacobs Marsha 3 66.4
10 Young Michael 5 59.0 Wolfe Aileen 2 53.8
11 Roos Joan 7 56.9 Tresan Colombe 3 52.5
12 Meredith David 4 52.9 Madrid Louise 3 41.6
13 Shakhnovsky Oleg 4 50.9 White Susan 3 38.7
14 Minarik Leslie 4 50.8
GREEN
1 Carpenter Gary 5 115.6 25 Shakhnovsky Oleg 5 54.4
2 Haarma Hanu 10 105.5 26 Madrid Louise 6 53.3
3 Wildfogel Dennis 9 100.2 27 Lanam Jeff 11 51.2
4 Custer Evan 6 94.9 28 Revenko Victor 7 47.5
5 Steuben Anneliese 9 93.4 29 Petersen Janet 4 46.5
6 Scarborough Joe 11 92.8 30 Johnson Rosemary 5 44.4
7 Spalding Chuck 9 87.9 31 Beuerman Steve 10 44.3
8 Cooley Bob 6 85.4 32 DuPertuis Lucy 4 44.2
9 Minarik Sarah 4 83.1
10 Minarik George 5 79.1 Fjellbirkeland Lars 3 105.1
11 Glendinning Alan 4 77.3 Jankowski Steve 6 94.5
12 Fleishman Michael 8 75.3 Weber Nik 7 88.8
13 DeMoss Harold 7 69.0 Taylor Chris 6 87.7
14 Wojtowicz Debbie 9 66.5 Tresan Blake 5 87.2
15 Goss Gerry 7 65.8 Wilson James 5 83.3
16 Verhoevan Theo 5 64.6 Papendick Bill 3 76.6
17 Clemo Patty 7 64.5 Martin, Adrian 3 76.1
18 Hintz Stew 10 63.6 Jorgensen David 3 75.1
19 Wolfe Abby 10 62.8 MacLean Stephanie 3 64.8
20 Lewis Robert 9 61.6 Jacobs Marsha 3 61.3
21 Williams Rob 4 60.8 Strak Bill 3 60.0
22 Goss Stacy 9 60.4 Jacobi Chris 3 56.1
23 Hoare Phillip 9 58.0 Marshall John 3 54.8
24 Minarik Leslie 5 55.2
RED
1 Ohlund Kent 7 102.3 17 Rosenzweig Eric 7 74.3
2 Barlow Neal 4 100.2 18 Pinkham Tony 8 74.1
3 Karras Tapio 13 99.8 19 Cooley Bob 4 69.2
4 Gregg Steve 4 98.8 20 Larsen Shawn 7 68.6
5 Kohler Matthias 11 94.6 21 Jaehn Rod 5 64.3
6 Wyatt-Mair Gavin 4 87.9 22 Blair Mark 15 63.4
7 Carpenter Gary 6 86.1 23 Green Russell 7 62.5
8 Willecke Ralf 9 85.9 24 Graube Peter 6 62.3
9 DeMoss Penny 5 85.4 25 Schoenfeld Kevin 11 61.5
10 Tidswell Ian 5 84.0 26 Aster Scott 3 58.9
11 Greene Dan 7 83.5 27 Rice Mark 7 50.7
12 Wells Kelly 7 80.3
13 Sherwood Chris 4 77.3 Maclean Derek 12 99.4
14 Weber Nik 7 76.8 Bassett Bruce 3 71.7
" Petersen Mark 5 76.8 Masalkovas Andrejus 3 50.0
16 Papendick Bill 6 76.1
BLUE
1 Scarborough James 9 99.7 11 Winterbottom Rex 10 61.5
2 Stoll-Hadayia Dan 11 90.6 12 Springer Mike 7 59.3
3 Reader Syd 12 90.1 13 Boughner Van 6 57.2
4 Riley Wyatt 7 86.2 14 Graube Peter 5 54.3
5 Stein Doug 12 84.3 15 Dreyfuss David 4 50.5
6 Graeve Thorsten 11 83.1
7 Gregg Steve 9 81.9 Lewis Jeff 3 76.4
8 DeMoss Penny 8 67.1 Ramsey Ian 3 75.5
9 Haaramo Panu 6 65.4 Masalkovas Vadimas 3 56.6
10 Wyatt-Maier Gavin 9 62.0
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BROWN
The Brown course is essentially an all-comers course in that very
few of the participants are in the corresponding USOF age groups.
It is not unusual for the leaders to be well-qualified Green
runners recovering from injury or otherwise finding reason to get
in a minimum number of runs on the course during the year. 1998
and 1999 saw Dennis Wildfogal finish on top. This year it is
George Minarik, who incidentally, came back at the end of the
year with a good showing on Green. He won two of his five Brown
races to finish over 20 points ahead of second place Scott Aster.
Harold DeMoss, the lone "legitimate" Brown runner (M65)
repeats his fourth rank of last year.
GREEN
The Green rankings have been missing something the last four
years or so: the name of Gary Carpenter who, but for devoting his
attention to Red and Blue courses, would most likely have been
the man to beat on Green. This summer he put together a string of
high scoring runs on Green leaving him 5 points clear of Hannu
Haarma, not an easy job with Hannu winning six of his ten races.
But Gary won three of his five and was second in his other two.
Significantly, Gary topped Hannu in two of their three head-to-head
meetings at Tahoe. Anneliese Steuben moved up from her second
place Brown ranking last year to fifth on Green with 93.4 points.
That makes her the top Green woman, 10 points ahead of Sarah
Minarik.
RED
The continuing battle for first between Kent Ohlund and Tapio
Karras was well into its fifth year when Neal Barlow decided to
jump into the action. At the end of the year it was Kent Ohlund
on top again, the fourth time in the last five years and Neal in
second off four solid runs at Burton Creek, China Camp and
Montebello. Tapio had his usual prolific season with 13 runs at
ranking events and six wins and again was only a couple of points
out of first. His most notable victory was day two at Burton
Creek when he came in three minutes ahead of Neal. But the head-to-head
record repeated the story: Kent in first, 2-0 against Neal and 3-2
against Tapio. Neal beat Tapio 2-1. Honorable mention mu Penny
DeMoss after leading last year's Green list takes 10th on Red to
replace Angelica Riley as the top BAOC woman.
BLUE
The top seven on this year's Blue list are in pretty much the
same order as last year. James Scarborough repeats as BAOC's top
male with wins in seven of his nine ranking runs. James' best
runs, most likely were as the top BAOC runner over the two days
at Burton Creek finishing 10 minutes clear each day against all
of the club's best. Dan Stoll-Hadayia handed James one of his
rare club losses, nipping him by eight seconds at Sunol. Dan
moves from third to second as Panu Haaramo's DQ's caught up with
him. Panu dropped from second last year down to ninth as three of
his six runs were scored as DQ. The man to watch on Blue is fast
improving Syd Reader. He moved ahead of Wyatt Riley by nearly
four points into third place and within only a half point of Dan.
Dan and Syd traded victories in their head-to-head races during
the first half of the year but Syd's impovement was evident
finishing ahead of Dan the last four of the year.
METHODOLOGY
Ranking events are those BAOC meets with:
Suitable terrain and maps
Courses according to USOF standards
Follow principals of challenge and fairness
2000 ranking events:
Joe Grant (2), Briones, Sunol, Annadel, Indian Valley, Spooner,
Sawmill, Burton(2), China Camp, Big Basin, Montebello, Tamarancho,
Calero
Event score:
Scores are assigned based on the competitor's time in relation to
the