Score Your Season!

[Jeff Miller]

Use this scorecard to score your season up to the present date! It's a little something I whipped up, feeling statistical and genuinely bored beyond any reasonable doubt. Let me know how your season has gone year to date!

(Simply put the date (i.e. 5/30) in the dates columns for each date.) I'm curious to see the numbers for this insane tornado year!

 

[Chris Hayes]

That's 128 for me

 

[Shane Adams]

139...I don't chase hail.

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

I'm over 150 (why can't you go higher?) just using the first two scoring options....

 

[MatthewCarman]

You should have had points for hail 6-7" or for tornadoes larger than a mile wide etc. I added up the max possible score to the side and it would be 160 so I am confused how you got 150 unless that is what your score was. 100+20+20+10+5+5 = 160 points. Also do you get points for say each area of high winds or hail or just for the largest you have seen and do you get the points only once or for as many times as you have seen this event?

 

[Eric Flescher]

that is a very nice chart: suggestion and idea

That is a super nice chart. Well thought out and categorized. What about having the enhanced fujita? scale in it.

Also is there a way for you to post or send us a pdf or word file of it?

We could fill them out and save them, post them in this area of the forum.
Also other chasers who would like to have one can fill out the chart and then post is on their website /blog.

just thought

Once again congrats on a very nice visual display

 

[Jeff Miller]

All suggestions welcome! I'll input all great ideas into a new scorecard ASAP, there is always room for improvement... Thanks!

Matthew, sorry, typo on the 150.

 

[Bob Schafer]

Now I'm waiting for the flames about scoring one's chasing.

 

[Kem Poyner]

score

98 for me. But Ill take it!

 

[Jason Foster]

Don't think so on this one.

Now I'm waiting for the flames about scoring one's chasing.

Now that there's a score card, now there will be stats. And since there will be stats, we can create a fantasy chase league. We can also put gambling odds on folks, and have a betting pool. Kidding aside, I kinda like the idea myself.

Bob, I don't think anyone is going to flame about this one. It's just a statistical way of evaluating ones experiences out in the plains. Number are one thing, but the experience is what matters.

I'll do mine later....but I'm sure I've got a low score for the year.

 

[B Doss]

not my best

138

2005 is still my #1 season.

 

[Kevin Myatt]

131 for me ... but like Shane, I don't chase the hail, and would probably count running into the big stuff as a point deduction, since it can limit or end chasing for a while afterward ...

I collected all 100 tornado points on May 22-23, and I'm quite certain some of those chasing in Oklahoma on May 24 (when I was collecting my 1 point for a towering cume in southern Nebraska) could have collected their 100 max in a single day there.

You could add some deduction categories:
* Busted chase, -10
* Sliding off the road, -15
* Getting hooked, -15
* TIV/DOWs intercept, -50

 

[Darrin Rasberry]

If each one is to be counted once (which is what I'm assuming) then it's 77 for me, possibly 107 but we will never know for sure.

 

[Greg McLaughlin]

Adding up each catagory I scored one I come to a total of 139. May 24th alone could be responsible for 125 of those points. To say the least May 24, 2008 was a career day for me and a top 3 chase for my partner Justin Teague. How about scoring bonus points for being 150 yards away from a significant (EF2) tornado.

 

[Jeff Miller]

Updated ScoreCard and Website

Please Check out www.atmosphericaddiction.com.

I have reorganized the website into a "Chaser Statistic Site" using an enhanced scoring system that is, in my opinion, much better detailed than the score card above. I have also added the recommendations mentioned here in this thread.

I think you will agree it's a very fair and balanced way to score chasing, and also will be a great way to measure statistics! The GREAT news is that back-chases are acceptable, and will go a long way to measuring lifetime chasing stats.

Chasing is for many a sport. This is a way to statistically rank chasers, with rewards for huge days and penalties for violations. It's all in fun and for entertainment purposes only. Check it out!