milesplit rankings - clean up?

jmarruns wrote:

Does anyone at milesplit verify or weed out suspiciously fast times posted in their rankings? Just noticed an 8:30 3000m posted for a class of 2026 female. Same thing happens on athletic.net.

They seem to be good at putting together lists of numbers, not so good at catching errors or making the lists meaningful.

jmarruns wrote:

Does anyone at milesplit verify or weed out suspiciously fast times posted in their rankings? Just noticed an 8:30 3000m posted for a class of 2026 female. Same thing happens on athletic.net.

I doubt any verify or weed out suspiciously fast times. I think they should have a computer program trigger an alert for any suspicious times for review but they probably aren't interested in spending the time and money to do so.

Strava users complain all the time that segment leaders have times that work class runners could not achieve. Cyclists are reporting their data as run rather than cycling activity. Strava users can report it after the fact but many wonder why they cannot do something like filter out a sub-4 minute per mile pace in 8 mile fast run. In a club I created on Strava two people reported their mileage from a 8 hour trip by car as mileage they ran for the week. The mileage and pace were not possible for cycling, much less running.

I too found bad data years ago on athletic.net. It was obvious that one of the best times for a runner in my state was incorrect as they never ran anyway close to that time before or after. It was something like a mid-17 minute 5K time for someone who ran all their other races in 20-some minutes. I contacted the race director or the timing company when I found this error. I was polite in my e-mails and the response from the race directory or timing company was very professional. They appreciated that I pointed out the issue, explained what may have happened, and sent out a correction to Athletic.net. I don't recall whether or Milesplit also had the bad data. I may have contacted them after Athletic.net corrected their results or it may have been a meet for which Milesplit did not pull in that result data in the first place.

Don't waste your time contacting Athletic.net unless you are a coach which a registered account. They indicated to me years ago they would not respond to anyone other than registered coaches. I recently tried to contact Milesplit/Flosports and received no responses. So I would suggest you contact the race director or timing company.

athletic.net atleast now does "quarantine" really fast times atleast in track. We host some meets that have HS and MS times that end up being the top of the State lists and sometimes National ones and it always takes a day or two for the fastest times to get verified. I think every quarantined time gets flagged and a worker has to look at that athletes other performances to see if it's real or not.

Athletic.net representatives have been very helpful to me when I've pointed out obvious timing errors on their website. I'm not a coach, but they still helped me because it was obvious that something was very wrong. In general, they like to deal with the coaches who posted the data for any revisions.

You are more likely to get struck by lightning than Milesplit fix their rankings.

They adjusted 2 races that our kids competed in. They called them 3 miles. I don't think the OP is talking about timing errors but short courses. Stop worrying about XC times.

Milesplit rules HS wrote:

They adjusted 2 races that our kids competed in. They called them 3 miles. I don't think the OP is talking about timing errors but short courses. Stop worrying about XC times.

Nope I think the OP was talking about typos which stand out as bad times.

Do you have an example? How could there be a typo when the information is automated?