Discussion: Stats page explanation?

I'm new to the sport and don't fully understand the results stats. Is there a Primer somewhere on that? For example, why are some splits highlighted in red?
Thanks!

The split boxes that are highlighted in red are the leg splits that Attackpoint has calculated to be a mistake. If you hover over them, you can see how much time the calculation suggests was lost. When the top number in the box is the orange-red color then that person had the fastest time for that control. The blue numbers mean that runner had the fastest time on the course at that control. Does that make sense? Anything else that is confusing?

What are the brown lines on a map? There are so many that I can just ignore them right?

Those are suggested routes. The really windy ones are for mtb.

The brown lines are the brown course. It is ideal for elderly competitors because following one generates no climb.

Okay thanks, that makes sense. If I'm doing a white course can I cross other colours or should I try to stick to just the white areas?

McZwick, the following might also help:

lost - how much time you spent on course where you didn't know where you were
spd - how fast you were going relative to other runners on your course (this is impacted by lost)
pts - how awesome you are; US competitors seem to have a 1.5x advantage over the rest of the world with this stat

Well actually now it’s the Australians with the points advantage

Surely tRicky doesn't get points for his absurdities?

The 2009 Australian Sprint Championships area during the September 2010 flood would be ideal for a blue course.

(I've probably observed before that, although we no longer use colour codes for courses in Australia, when we did, a blue course had exactly the opposite meaning to what it had in the US).

So it made people happy?

Speed being affected by lost is perhaps confusing? Speed is your capability or potential if you didn't screw up. You can finish several places behind someone and half an hour later, and end up with the same speed rating, as long as the time gap is covered by mistakes and not running speed.

This happened on Sunday here for example, 3 and 6th roughly 17 minutes apart but more or less same speed rating.

https://www.attackpoint.org/racesplits.jsp/race_38...

US scores (at least mine) are falling down nicely. I've lost 20% in the last week or two. I think some recent inflation was the result of the reconnecting as the pandemic winds down. We had an instance where a good person visited us, did not have a great race, while the locals who had the venue memorized ran well, which connected us in a lopsided fashion resulting in a ~50 point runner getting a 100 pt AP ranking, which was kind of hilarious.

Your AP ranking is general, relative to whatever else is posted on AP, and just for fun anyway (as is the entire sport for that matter).

No fun, only run.

Spouse: Did you have fun?
Me: Not sure, they haven't published the results yet.

Haha, too true.

Conversely: No, I lost three minutes at the fifth control.