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  • January 22, 2015 at 1:44 pm #916375
    hozn
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    I’m starting a new thread to collect future updates on the scoreboard (as opposed to my previous practice of starting a new thread for each update).

    I fixed the issue with team/indiv various leaderboards not displaying. In doing so, I noticed that some of our leaderboards are heavily skewed due to invalid data. In particular, the “Time in the Saddle” (i.e. summed “moving time”).

    I’ve commented on some of these rides so hopefully the riders can clean them up. I’m tempted to just exclude manual entry rides from any of the leaderboards (other than points). If I had my druthers, I’d exclude them completely, just as Strava does for their challenges, but I realize that would be viewed as unfair. (And, of course, I didn’t write the rules; the intent of the scoreboard app is to conform as best as technically possible to whatever the established rules are.)

    Unfortunately, the problems extend to rides that have a GPX track too — I commented on these too — so excluding manual entries won’t take away the need for some oversight of erronious data in the scoreboards. Of course, this oversight requirement problem grows linearly with the number of contestants. If the size of the competition changes dramatically in future years, I’ll need to invest in better tools to help manage the noise. I’m comforted by the fact that we’re at least capped by the number of riders crazy enough to ride in winter conditions. But I realize FS participants are still a small fraction of those actually commuting these days.

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  • February 6, 2015 at 10:34 pm #1022473
    TwoWheelsDC
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    Just noticed the BAFS website got a nomination in the 2015 WABA Bicyclists Choice awards for “Best Use of Biking Data.” Nice work Hans and all the others who helped pull that together!

    February 6, 2015 at 10:50 pm #1022476
    rcannon100
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    Excellent! For that, I will vote.

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    February 7, 2015 at 12:22 am #1022478
    DismalScientist
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    Where’s the ASPCA when we need them?

    February 7, 2015 at 12:29 am #1022479
    hozn
    Participant

    Cool – I had no idea. Thanks, whoever nominated it!

    February 7, 2015 at 3:38 pm #1022491
    GB
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    @TwoWheelsDC 107768 wrote:

    Just noticed the BAFS website got a nomination in the 2015 WABA Bicyclists Choice awards for “Best Use of Biking Data.” Nice work Hans and all the others who helped pull that together!

    Link:

    http://www.waba.org/events/washington-area-bicyclists-choice-awards/

    February 7, 2015 at 6:53 pm #1022492
    Subby
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    Please take time to vote for the Freezing Saddles website!

    February 17, 2015 at 1:15 am #1023225
    Steve O
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    There’s some sort of odd step function going on with the coldest ride data. I have a hard time believing 9 people rode at 14.00 degrees and then 22 people all rode at 15.10 degrees with no one in between. Odd.

    [IMG]http://bikearlingtonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7841&stc=1[/IMG]

    February 17, 2015 at 1:30 am #1023226
    vvill
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    @Steve O 108556 wrote:

    There’s some sort of odd step function going on with the coldest ride data. I have a hard time believing 9 people rode at 14.00 degrees and then 22 people all rode at 15.10 degrees with no one in between. Odd.

    It’s probably just the granularity of temperature that’s available in the weather data being pulled.

    February 17, 2015 at 1:34 am #1023229
    Steve O
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    @vvill 108557 wrote:

    It’s probably just the granularity of temperature that’s available in the weather data being pulled.

    It didn’t use to do this, though. It just started in the last week or so.

    February 17, 2015 at 1:34 am #1023230
    hozn
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    I suspect that is the case; we use start location. Maybe there are insufficient observations to get things more granular. There could be a bug, of course, though I haven’t seen anything in reviewing that.

    February 17, 2015 at 1:35 am #1023231
    hozn
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    @Steve O 108561 wrote:

    It didn’t use to do this, though. It just started in the last week or so.

    Hmm, ok. I will look into this more deeply, in that case.

    February 17, 2015 at 1:38 am #1023232
    jrenaut
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    @hozn 108563 wrote:

    Hmm, ok. I will look into this more deeply, in that case.

    While you’re at it, disqualify people who did their rides in Canada so I can have the Coldest Ride. I mean, Canada’s not even a real place, is it?

    February 17, 2015 at 1:40 am #1023235
    hozn
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    Oh, I was hoping you were volunteering to look into this :-)

    Yeah, I think Canada is the same as the Zwift island. Just an oversight that #nobafs was omitted from those rides, I am sure.

    February 17, 2015 at 1:48 am #1023237
    dkel
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    As long as we’re all complaining about the weather reporting (;)) when do the stats get updated? My ride today was much colder than my currently reported coldest ride.

    Much, much colder.

    Soooo cooold!

    February 17, 2015 at 2:03 am #1023239
    jrenaut
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    @hozn 108567 wrote:

    Oh, I was hoping you were volunteering to look into this :-)[/quote]
    I know, I’ve been a horrible slacker on the programming front this year. In my defense, I feel terrible about it. I hope to redeem myself by making pages for some pointless prizes as people figure out what they want to give pointless prized for.

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