Reading race results
How to interpret the columns of the main standings and the supporting tables (per-club summary, success rate, champion pool, best pigeon) that appear on a calculated race result page.
What this page covers
The result page of a race is more than one table. Alongside the main standings there are several smaller tables that summarise the same race from different angles - per club, per pigeon, by success rate. This page walks through each of them and explains what every column and percentage means.
What appears after a result is calculated
When a race result is calculated, MyPigeons builds the main standings table and - depending on how the result type is configured - one or more supplementary tables underneath it. The main table is always there; the supplementary tables only appear if the corresponding option is enabled on the result type.
The most common supplementary blocks are the per-club summary, the success-rate panel, the champion pool, and the best-pigeon banner. They share the same input data as the main standings, so they always agree with each other.
The main standings table
Each row of the main table is one placed pigeon. The columns describe who flew it, which pigeon it was, and how well it did.
The exact set of columns depends on the result type and on what your federation has enabled. The typical columns are: rank, fancier (club code, name), pigeon (ring number, optional name, colour, sex), distance, arrival time, flight time, speed, and either prize coefficient or points - whichever the result type calculates.
Pigeons that did not finish in the placed percentage of basketed pigeons are not shown in this table. They still count towards the basketed totals, just not towards the placed list.
Club summary table
The club summary is the table that appears below the main standings (collapsed by default; click the heading to expand). One row per club, with how many fanciers and pigeons that club had in the race and how successful they were. It exists so that a member of any one club can immediately see how their club performed against the others in the same race.
Which clubs appear
Only clubs whose fanciers actually basketed pigeons in this race appear in the table. A club with members in the federation but no basketed pigeons in this particular race is skipped. Distance limits configured on the result type also apply - if a club's members only basketed for distances outside the result's min/max range, they are filtered out too.
Columns at a glance
From left to right: Club (code and name), Fanciers (how many of that club's members basketed at least one pigeon counted for this result), Pigeons (how many pigeons that club basketed), Placed pigeons (how many of those pigeons appear in the main standings), then the two percentage columns, and finally Points if the result type calculates points.
% um. - share of the race
The first percentage column shows the club's contribution to the total placed pigeons across all clubs. It is calculated as placed pigeons of this club / total placed pigeons of all clubs in the result × 100. A club with 10 % here contributed one tenth of all placed pigeons in this race. Across the whole table this column sums to 100 % - it is a share of a fixed cake.
% vl. um. - the club's own success rate
The second percentage column shows the club's internal success rate - how many of the pigeons this club basketed ended up placed. It is calculated as placed pigeons of this club / basketed pigeons of this club × 100. It is independent of the other clubs and does not sum to 100 % across the table - each row is a self-contained ratio for that club.
A worked example
Suppose a club basketed 200 pigeons and 40 of them placed. Across the whole race, 400 pigeons placed in total. Then % um. = 40 / 400 = 10 % (this club accounts for one tenth of all placed pigeons in the race) and % vl. um. = 40 / 200 = 20 % (one fifth of the pigeons this club basketed made it into the standings). The first number measures the club's weight in the race, the second measures its internal performance.
Totals row
The bold row at the bottom sums the count columns (fanciers, basketed pigeons, placed pigeons) and - if the result type calculates points - the points column. The two percentage columns are intentionally blank in the totals row: the share-of-race column would always be 100 % (uninteresting), and the success-rate column has no meaningful sum across clubs.
National and regional results: per organisation, not per club
When the result belongs to a national or regional organisation, the summary table groups fanciers by their regional organisation (district / regional federation) instead of by their local club. The columns and the two percentages mean exactly the same thing - the only difference is what counts as a "row". This matches how those results are read: a fancier looks for their district, not their club, in the standings.
Hens-only and yearlings-only results
Some result types only count hens or only count yearlings. When that is the case, the basketed-pigeons column counts only the hens (or only the yearlings) that the club basketed - not every pigeon. The denominator of the success-rate column changes accordingly, so the percentages still describe the same population that the main standings rank.
When the club summary does not appear
The club summary block is optional on each result type. If the result type has its Club statistics option turned off, the table is not generated and nothing is shown under the main standings. The same happens when no club has any basketed pigeons in the configured distance range - there is simply nothing to summarise. The setting lives on the result type itself; see the connected guides at the bottom.
Other tables and banners on the result page
Besides the main standings and the club summary, a result page may show a few more blocks - again, depending on the result type:
- Champion pool - a leaderboard of the fanciers based on the points or coefficients of their best pigeons in this race. Used when a champion-pool calculation is enabled on the result type.
- Success rate panel - a compact summary card showing the overall placed-to-basketed ratio for the whole race, plus a breakdown by distance band when applicable.
- Best pigeon banner - a highlight card naming the top-ranked pigeon (rank 1) with its fancier, ring number, and key numbers.
- Diploma - a printable diploma for the placed fanciers, generated from the same standings. Available from the toolbar.
Print version, refresh, and recalculation
A print-friendly version of the result page is available from the toolbar - it lays out the same tables without the surrounding UI chrome. After a recalculation (whether triggered manually by an administrator or by editing the underlying arrivals) the page automatically shows the updated numbers - readers do not need to clear anything; the change is reflected on the next view.