Working Out Fis Points

FIS Points

You can find a full set of rules and instructions at:

http://www.fis-ski.com/data/document/pktrgl0607-neu.pdf

An overview of this note is to say....

FIS points are awarded for races. They are charted on a FIS database and gathered as an average into FIS points list. Each skier has their points listed for 'Sprints' and 'Distance'. Read on to see how they create the points list from scores from indidual races.

Points for each race are calculated by a system. The skier will get a score as race points, but each race is given a quality rating or penalty (depending on the quality of the field - the better the field the lower the penalty). FIS points for the race equals adding together the race points and the penalty. Read on to see how to calculate both the race points and the penalty.

There is also a worked example of how points are calculated. (Which is repeated at the end of this article or you can click here to go to it ) Example calculation

Race values

Differnent types of races have different factors which mean different scores.

F-Value

Factor Competition format

Factor 800 Competitions with interval start

Factor 1200 Sprints and Pursuit competitions with a break

Factor 1400 Competitions with Mass start and Pursuit without a break

So interval races score better than Mass starts. The main reason for this is to encourage the best skier in a mass start to keep skiing hard rather than just winning the race.

Calculation Process

Actual points scored is a combination of 2 things.

• The points for the race

• The tariff for the race. Not all winners get zero points. The section below explains the points a winner will get in a race – all other races have their race points added to this to get their FIS points score.

4.1 Race Points

4.1.1 The race points will be calculated by computer (see enclosure 1a).

downwards and rounded up from five thousandths of a point upward

(e.g. 23.654 = 23.65 or 23.849 = 23.85).

4.2 FIS Points

4.2.1 Distance (longer than Sprint)

results over the period of the last twelve months.

4.2.2 Sprint

results over the period of the last twelve months.

4.2.3 Less than 5 results

ø best 4 results x 1.1 = FIS points

ø best 3 results x 1.2 = FIS points

ø best 2 results x 1.3 = FIS points

(So in a result sheet a skier may have 400 points, but in the FIS list this will be seen as 560, if he has only completed 1 race in the year.)

4.3 Calculating Penalties

4.3.1 To calculate the race penalty, the following are considered (see

fig.1a/1b).

4.3.1.1 The competitors who finish among the top five of the race.

4.3.1.2 Any competitors who are ranked in the top five without or with more

than 160 FIS points will receive 160 points for purpose of the

calculation.

4.3.1.3 The FIS points of the top five competitors are considered, the best

and the worst points are eliminated, and the remaining three values

are added and divided by 3,75. This is the race penalty. The points

shall be rounded down from four thousandths of a point downwards

and rounded up from five thousandths of a point upward (e.g.

13.654 = 13.65 or 21.849 = 21.85).

4.3.1.4 In the event two or more competitors are tied for fifth, three or more

are tied for fourth, etc. the skiers having the best FIS points will be

used in the calculation of the penalty.

4.3.2 If the calculated penalty (according to art. 4.3.1) is higher than the

minimum penalty (see art. 4.4.1), the calculated penalty will be

applied to the race.

4.3.3 If the calculated penalty is less than the minimum penalty, the

minimum penalty will be applied to the race.

4.3.4 For the Junior World Ski Championships a maximum penalty of 35

points will be calculated.

4.3.5 For the U23 World Championships a maximum penalty of 25 points

will be calculated.

4.4 Minimum Penalties

categories:

Olympic Winter Games, FIS World Ski Championships & World Cup 0

Continental Cup + FIS competitions 15

FIS junior competitions 35 35

Take this example from a double pursuit

These are the top 5 winning skiers

A with FIS points 90.47 in a time of 35.03.9

B with 143.53

C with 137.59

D with 159.47

E with 118.26

Race penalty is calculated as :

(143.53 + 137.59 + 118.26) / 3.75

106.50

So if skier X has a time of 41.44.3

We can plug in the Race points calculation:

((1400 x 41.44.3 ) / 35.03.9 ) – 1400

(1400 x 2504.3) / 2103.9) – 1400

266.44

So skier X’s FIS points from the race is

Race penalty + Race points

106.50 + 266.44 = 372.94

Notice that the better the quality of the race the better the potential for points. However, in a high quality race you still have to ski really well to get good points (if a large gap develops between you and the skier picking up 65 points for winning you can still have a large score).

Interesting to note in passing. The winning skier (A) gets fewer points for winning this race than was already on the FIS Points list (was 90.47, but collected 106.5 for this race). This is what the notes mean by quality of the field. However, this is unlikely to be a challenge for British skiers for the next little while.

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