It's weird to me that HS teams still have many duel meets (or tri meets or quad meets). My HS conference had two quad meets a year for cross (and this was 20 years ago). They didn't mean anything for deciding the conference championship (which was entirely decided by the actual championship race).
With invitationals on every weekend, it's surprising that there are still this many duel meets.
Pulling out dual meet scoring from a quad meet just seems silly and a waste of time.
otter wrote:
Mountain Punner wrote: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.
Just to be clear, lowest score doesn't win though?
Mountain Punner wrote:
otter wrote: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.
Just to be clear, lowest score doesn't win though?
Bingo!
If there are more than two teams in a race, it's not a duel meet.
ImissSpicey wrote:
Bingo!
If there are more than two teams in a race, it's not a duel meet.
What is a "duel" meet? And are you saying the highest score wins?
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