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Are you saying that, by normalizing all of the individual factor ratings to the same scale, the factor weightings/multipliers will not have the desired effect?
The fact that some factor ratings have a very tight range, from highest to lowest, while others have a wider range, was the very reason I decided to normalize all the factor ratings to the same scale. Obviously, that doesn't work well, as the wider factor ranges get tightened up, while the tighter factor ranges get widened.
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Yes. All factors my scale similarly.
Example: In my system, all factors scale from 1 to 250.
Thus, Quirin Points go from 0 to 8, having 9 actual choices. Therefore, the value of a point is 27 points each and look like this:
0=1-27
1=28-54
2=55-81
3=82-108
4=109-135
5=136-162
6=163-189
7=190-216
8=217-243
The value of Speed Rating = 5 is returned as 149, the center point between high and low.
Speed ratings are scaled from the top of the field down to minus 25 below the top horse. This allows for 25 numbers. Specifically, if the top horse is a 97, he becomes 100 and the lowest horse is graded at 75. Any horse that comes in below 75 gets a 75.
Now that we know there will always be 25 numbers, we know that each number is worth 250/25 = 10 points.
