Mountain Punner wrote:
otter wrote:So very wrong
Wait....lowest score doesn't win?
Ugh, this is what annoys me as a coach. Even people involved with our sport have no clue.
When you are in a dual meet situation there could be five teams there but you are only scored against each team individually.
In an invitational or championship meet you are scored against all of the teams.
When you go head to head with a team in a dual meet you can beat them if you have fast runners up front and a really slow fifth runner. That will not happen in a championship meet because all of the teams in the race will displace your fifth runner as opposed to only one in a dual meet.
So only 7 can displace anyone in your top five in a dual meet and 100+ can displace your top five in a championship meet. An enormous difference. Not the same thing.
You can beat a team in a dual meet and place the same results into the field of a championship meet and lose by a wide margin.