Biggest bargain in USATF Masters: rankings for $3,750
A few months back, I worried aloud about whether USATF Masters would have a rankings program this season — an online list of top marks in all age groups, indoors and out. As you’ve probably surmised, it’s back in business. Today I also discovered the value placed on these updated seasonal performance lists: $750 (Correction on 3/7: It’s actually $3,750. I missed a column in the budget.) That’s an absolute steal, considering the hundreds of hours rankers Dave Clingan and Larry Patz put into them. (Last year, Dave and Larry processed over 25,000 results from more than 700 meets.) The pricetag put on rankings is revealed in the 2006 USATF Masters T&F budget, now online.
Among other things, we learn that USATF Masters T&F expects to spend $1,420 on media, $1,000 on efforts to gain a physical Masters Hall of Fame at the Armory’s National T&F Hall of Fame and $5,000 for its annual “NMN grant” — a subsidy of National Masters News.
$5,000 for NMN and $3.750 for rankings?
I’ll have more to say on that soon.
Meantime, check out the growing list of reports on USATF Masters T&F.
One Response
Ken-
It’s true that we have reached an agreement with USATF for the 2006 Masters Track & Field Rankings, so we are proceeding with rankings this year as we have in the past. Meanwhile, USATF is developing a new rankings data base system, which we’ll be evaluating and hopefully adopting sometime in the future.
As for compensation, the total annual compensation for masters rankings is $3750 not $750 (although that’s still a bargain considering how many hours it takes). There are two line items for rankings in the budget, and you missed the first one.
-Dave
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