Going to two Boats

Whilst strongly discouraged, some University events drop to two boat team racing when they have a breakdown which would impact the schedule. 

In league situations this will not make a lot of difference but the HLS system relies much more heavily on points to break ties, so the scoring system becomes more important. Jo Lucas suggests that with the HLS system you should double the team score and add 1point to the losing team. This makes the score for a team with 1,2 equivalent to a 1,2,3 win with the losers taking 4,5,6 equivalent. 1,3 is a less deserving win and scores the same as a 1,2 win in UKTRA, while there is no difference with 2,3.Whatever, system is used it is going to be a compromise.

Result	UKTRA	Lucas
1,  2	8	6
3,  4	13	15
1,  3	9	8
2,  4	12	13
2,  3	10	10
1, 4	11	11

There is an argument that the team with the broken boat should have the opportunity to get the sailors in their broken boat into one of their good boats, should they so desire, since the other team have the opportunity to drop their worst sailor, when they go down to two boats, but that is another argument.