New: Specialty Profile (v2) on Swim Standards

[adam]

We’ve updated the Specialty section on swimmer profiles and dashboards to give a more balanced view of event strengths across strokes and race types.

How Specialty (v2) works

This profile uses power points from your best event/course entries.

Examples:

• 100 Fly SCY
• 200 Fly LCM

We normalize the display to a fixed ceiling:

• 1200 points = 100%
• Example: 820 points = about 68.3%

Stroke Radar

The stroke radar uses a weighted average of your top 3 entries in each stroke:

• Top 1 = 1.0x
• Top 2 = 0.75x
• Top 3 = 0.5x

This helps reduce noise from one single standout swim and gives a more stable picture of overall specialty.

Sprint / Mid / Distance

We also show a Sprint / Mid / Distance profile using the same weighted method.

Buckets:

• Sprint: 50 / 100
• Mid: 200 / 400 / 500
• Distance: 1000+

Data Confidence

On the radar tooltip, n means the number of valid event/course entries counted for that stroke before top-3 weighting.

If a swimmer has fewer than 5 total entries, we show a Limited Data badge to indicate the profile may shift quickly as more results are added.

Why we changed it

The goal of Specialty (v2) is to make the profile:

• more stable
• less dependent on one swim
• easier to compare across strokes
• more useful for swimmers, parents, and coaches

If you have feedback on the new Specialty profile, reply in this thread.