Seed the field

Seeding puts the field in start order from each competitor's recent results. You set the rules, generate a proposal, review it, and accept it. Generating a proposal changes nothing: the seeds on the entries only change when you accept. To print the start order afterwards, see Produce the start order and the print pack.

Anyone in your organisation can read the seeding page. Changing rules, generating, moving and accepting need permission to manage entries.

Open the seeding page

  1. Open the event's entry list. See Work the entry list.
  2. Choose "Seeding" at the top of the list.

The page has three sections: "Rules", "Proposal" and "Accepted seedings".

Set the rules

Each result is a competitor's time as a percentage of the winner's time, so 100 is the winner. The rules choose which results count.

  1. In "Results counted", enter how many results are averaged. The best (lowest percentage) ones are used.
  2. In "Latest results looked at", enter how many of a competitor's latest classified results to look at. It must be at least the number counted.
  3. In "Measured against", choose "Overall winner" or "Class winner".
  4. In "Seeding order", choose "Overall" to seed everyone on one list, or "Within class order" to keep the classes in event order and seed inside each class.
  5. In "Equal scores", choose "Best single result first" or "Earlier entry first".
  6. Tick "Same series season only" to count only events in the same season as this one. It is ignored when the event is not in a season.
  7. Tick "Same discipline only" to count only events of the same discipline.
  8. Choose "Save rules".

Competitors with no classified result are placed after the seeded ones, in entry order. The rules are used the next time you generate a proposal, and are copied to a cloned event.

Generate a proposal

  1. Choose "Generate seeding". If a proposal is already open the button says "Generate again", which replaces it and drops any moves you made.
  2. Read the table "Proposed seeding". Each row shows the seed, the proposed seed, the driver, the class, a score ("No history" when there are no results), what it is based on, and a reason.

If nobody is in the field you will see "There are no entries in the field to seed yet."

Move someone, with a reason

  1. On the row, type the new position in the position box and a reason in the reason box. Both are required.
  2. Choose "Move".

"Overrides so far" counts your moves. The page notes a target of fewer than 5. Moves and the reasons are kept on record.

Accept the seeding

  1. Choose "Accept seeding". The button shows how many overrides it carries.
  2. The seeds are written to the entries in one go, and the proposal moves to "Accepted seedings".

If the field changed since you generated the proposal, you will be told to generate it again. An accepted seeding is never edited: seed again to make a new one. The latest accepted seeding is what the entries carry.

After accepting

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