Many people notice the strange numbers that appear next to games that occur in the general vicinity of Colorado.  This is because the RMSA has decided to try a new method to score some of their games using a points table similar to what is used in the decathlon in Track and Field.

The idea is (as told to me by Greg Bradshaw) the world record in each event at the time of the creation of the table was given an arbitrary score of 1000 points.  Divide 1000 by the world record (measured in feet), and you get the number of points per foot for that event.  However, many of these numbers were rounded off for ease of calculation.  They are as follows:

Open Stone: 16 points/foot
Braemar Stone: 20 points/foot
56# Weight for Distance: 24 points/foot
28# Weight for Distance: 12 points/foot
16# Hammer: 6.67 points/foot
22# Hammer: 8.23 points/foot
20# Sheaf: 32 points/foot
56# Weight for Height: 60 points/foot

The caber is done a little bit differently.  Each caber is assigned a value.  First the "Taper Factor" must be calculated.  Take the distance from the large end to the centre of gravity, call this A.  Take the distance from the small end to the centre of gravity, call this B.  The taper factor is then A/B.  This gives an idea of the taper of the caber.  To calculate the value of the caber, multiply the length in feet of the caber times the weight in pounds times the Taper Factor times 0.55.  This is the value an athlete gets if he/she turns the caber at 12:00.  For anything less than this, 0.6 points/minute is subtracted.  If the athlete does not turn the caber, but receives a score in degrees, 3 hours (or 108 points) is removed from the score, and this new number is now multiplied by (score in degrees)/100.

Example:

Let's say we have a caber that is 20 feet long, 110 pounds, and the centre of gravity is 8 feet from the large end.
Taper Factor = 8/ (20 - 8)
= 0.667

Value of caber = 20 * 110 * 0.667 * 0.55
= 807 points

Therefore, a 12:00 throw = 807 points

a 10:30 throw = 807 - 90 * 0.6
= 753 points

a 70 degree throw = (807 - 108) * 70 / 100
= 489 points