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Project RCM Ultimate
Summary Standard deviation
Sequence 986
Classification Feature Request
Priority Medium
Status Done
Kickoff date Aug 2, 2012
Maturity date Aug 2, 2012
Responsible
Version 1.4.21
Expense 0
Description Standard Deviation is also called your Consistency, and is a measure of your variance in lap times during a heat or race, simular to an average, but more a direct numerical number of how tight/simular your lap times were.

People over here who are quite used to having this feature in Slyfox and Alycat, get quite focused on this as a direct representation of how well they drove in a particular heat, working towards the lowest possible number, as a really good driver can manage a 0.200 second or less in a heat/race, with most drivers knowing if you blow that out to a 1.000+ second in a heat, you usually stuffed up somewhere.

Links...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
http://easycalculation.com/statistics/learn-standard-deviation.php
http://easycalculation.com/statistics/standard-deviation.php
http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-deviation.html

German Wiki if it helps?...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardabweichung
http://de.numberempire.com/statisticscalculator.php

Examples of it shown on results on Alycat and Slyfox...
http://www.lcrccc.org.au/RaceResults/2012/20120728/Print_Race_Analysis_17_5_Open_Main_Leg_2_Race_4.html
http://www.qrccra.org.au/Portals/5/Results/06-Jun-2010/Race_1_Round_4.html


It's just one of those little things people were really used to having, and I don't seem able to go more than a month or two without someone asking me if we can somehow get it back again, including being asked by some of the best drivers in our country at some of our events.

And I do know people from other clubs currently using other software always seem to ask if RCM can display it, and always seem a little disappointed when I tell them it can't.

So I know it would be fantastic if at some point you can look into how difficult it would be to include it on the results sheets/print outs within your software.

Change history

Timestamp Who Modification
Aug 2, 2012 2:31:43 PM Ticket created
Aug 2, 2012 2:34:05 PM Felix Romer Field: Status
Old value: Opened
New value : Running
Aug 3, 2012 1:40:38 PM Felix Romer Field: Status
Old value: Running
New value : Done