Privateer and others,
Thank you for being open regarding your respective thoughts on how you approach a race and ideas on ratings systems etc...it has been most invaluable and I have taken a lot of what has been said and from this base I will obviously have to look at my personal criteria weightings and those additional (intuitve?) factors that might come into assessing races.

A small question for Privateer...might sound silly but when you say '60% or better' for placing ratio - do you add the win % to the place for the 60% or is it just placings only...

Great discussion and thoughts one and all and thanks again for your contributions Privateer.