Wednesday 29 April 2015

Portsmouth City win the Hayes Cup!


The good news just keeps on coming from the Civil Service Sports Council's Target Shooting Association.

After winning the second division of the winter postal leagues, Portsmouth City qualified for a shoot off competition against the winners of the other divisions.  Thankfully our team managed to keep it together and were victorious, getting the good name of Portsmouth onto the Hayes Cup as a result!  Here were the winning scores of the team:

Ian Cooper (100)
Adam Nevatte (96)
Marian Nevatte (98)
Gordon Scruton (97)

Well done to Ian for shooting another possible when it really mattered!

While a shoot-off against winners of different divisions may sound incredibly unfair (who can imagine a Division 6 team standing a chance against the winners of Division 1?) this was not decided by gun score but by percentage improvement.

What does 'percentage improvement' mean?

Put simply, each team was competing against their own previous scores in this knock-out, not each other.  For this competition, our best five rounds were taken:


1st Round
2nd Round
3rd Round
4th Round
5th Round
6th Round
7th Round
8th Round
9th Round
Ian
97
93
97
99
95
95
95
96
95
Adam
96
97
97
99
98
98
96
98
98
Marian
100
99
100
98
97
97
97
95
98
Gordon
99
97
97
95
98
98
99
97
96

(392 + 391 + 391 + 388 + 388)/5 = 390.

Using these rounds, the team's average was 10 (remembering that we focus on points lost).

The exact percentage improvement equation for this competition works as follows:

(Average minus Score) divided by Average, multiplied by 100.

So in our case,

( (10 - 9)/10 ) x 100 = 10%

Our Hayes Cup score of 391 (or 9) shows that we shot a full point better than our average which equates to a 10% improvement over our average.  

Ok, but how did PCRC win?

In the end, it was all down to one point.  Had any of us scored anything lower than what we got, we would have been third or worse.  Fortunately, our improvement was better than those of the other teams:

1st: Portsmouth (10.00%) (9)
2nd: Yealmpton B (1.16%) (17)
3rd: Bicester F (0.94%) (84)
4th: Plympton C (-1.83%) (49)
5th: Benfleet (-6.90%) (29)
6th: Darlington (-13.45%) (27)

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