Result Cost
The calculation of an participant's result may be affected by factors such as the participant not having completed the event or various special cases, which could result in missing or incorrect data for the participant's result. Therefore, a result cost method is used to verify the correctness of a participant's result. The result cost mainly focuses on the following aspects:
- Fluctuations in average speed.
- Whether the average speed exceeds the maximum speed for this type of event.
- Whether the times at each split point are in increasing order.
- Whether there are missing split results.
- The overall reasonableness of other result data.
The result cost results mentioned above will be represented by a cost. This cost is a number greater than or equal to 0, with a smaller value indicating that the participant's result is closer to the standard.
When the cost is equal to 0, it means the participant has no raw data and did not participate in the result cost.
When the cost is greater than 0 but less than 2, the participant's result is flawless. The value of the cost represents the fluctuation in the participant's average speed across different splits; the greater the fluctuation, the higher the cost. In this case, once the result is calculated, the cost will be automatically locked to prevent recalculation.
When the cost is greater than 2, the participant's result has significant issues. This could be due to the participant not completing the event, leading to missing data in some splits, or various other unexpected factors causing errors in the result data.
