I am not saying who won was not the best pilots or the judging is unfair. I just cant for the life of me figure out why any mention of any of the subjects here cackeles feathers by the status quo.
The quick answer is that you are trying to provoke this kind of response. The question is answered clearly and concisely but you don't bother to even read the response, or take the time to try to understand it. There have already been very extensive discussions about this for years now, you can have the exact source code yourself, put in your own numbers, and see exactly what it is doing. You have had several qualitative descriptions.
Of course, you don't actually care what the answer is, you want to grind your own axe. And bear in mind, I know what that is in detail since we talked about it for a while. At one moment, you disingenuously ask about how the judge selection works. But you immediately respond with "why don't we bring in outside judges". Then later, you appear to complain that the judge selection algorithm fails to pick the most experienced judges - which is the diametric opposite of the "outside judges" theory, which ensures the least experienced judges we could possibly find.
Then, you ask whether or not "normalization" is a factor. You have absolutely no idea what "normalization" means in this context, of course, and Howard stated earlier that it was not used. The ranking method amounts to the same thing as normalizing the scores, then choosing by the resulting normalized score, but it's not used directly.
In short, you aren't listening to the answers. That's why people get upset, you are just tossing around crap about the work people have spent many careful hours/years trying to raft, and you have no idea or no interest in how it actually works. You just know it's garbage and whatever pops into your head is going to "fix" the issue.
As I told you at the NATs, there are plenty of us willing to help you - but not to get abused and denigrated for trying. As I mentioned at the NATs, the scoreboard is telling you something *very important*, and you aren't willing to listen. To get out of your current rut, you are going to have to do MANY things differently than you do now, and the first and most important is to accept that you are going to have to pay attention to other people's inputs to succeed. David does, and you don't - see the difference there?
Brett