Team Scoring - Rules
These are the Omega scoring practices for the 2020-21 season and beyond:
1) Each Thursday, a school will compete against 1 or 2 other schools in the league.
2) The first six skiers for each team will be denoted as "varsity" racers and are eligible for team scoring.
3) If a skier finishes first in their 12-skier matchup (one six person team vs. another six person team), they are awarded 14 points.
4) If a skier finishes in second place, they are given 12 points, 3rd place 11 points, and so on down to 12th place, which gets 2 points.
5) If a skier falls, they receive zero points.
6) The points are tallied and the team with the highest number of points wins.
Additional Omega Scoring Details
After the first four races, the teams (one boys and one girls) with the best records win the regular season league championship*
The top four teams in the league then go into a playoff and the bottom four teams go into a consolation bracket.
The winner of the playoffs is named league champion for the playoffs**
*If there is a tie at the end of the regular season, the tiebreakers are as follows: 1) Head-to-head record, 2) Total points.
** If there is a tie in a playoff matchup, the tiebreaker is total time (lowest time advances)
These are the Alpha scoring practices:
1) Each Tuesday, a school will compete against all of the other eight schools in the league.
2) The first six skiers for each team will be denoted as "varsity" racers and are eligible for team scoring.
3) If a skier finishes in first place in the league, they are awarded 100 points.
4) If a skier finishes in second place, they are awarded 99 points, 3rd place 98, and so on down to 54th place, which gets 47 points.
5) If a skier falls, they receive zero points.
6) The points for the top five skiers per team are tallied and the highest number of points gets 8 wins for scoring higher than every other team. The second highest point total receives a record of 7-1 for defeating seven teams, but losing to the highest point scoring team. This continues down to the team with the lowest point total which gets a record of 0-8 for the race.