Ratings woes
Ratings woes
We got our February issue of Front and Finish freakishly early this month, (last Tuesday, to be exact) and it took Becky only a second to see that the Open A and Utility A ratings published were not quite right.
They were listed as being the 2005 ratings, but she could tell that they didn’t take into account all of 2005, because she and Riker had scores from October that clearly weren’t in the points calculations. More checking of other dogs we knew confirmed this.
I sent an email to Bob Self, Jr and after some checking it turns out that there were two errors involved. First, the ratings were supposed to have been for 2004, not 2005, since the 2004 OA and UA ratings were never published. Apparently the title had gotten changed in later stages of publication.
The second problem the was that the 2005 ratings were used, which were incomplete since F&F hasn’t recieved all of results from the AKC yet.
It boggles belief that the AKC hasn’t yet gotten around to sending 3 lousy Excel files to Bob, particularly since the results for all of 2005 have been on the web site for a month now, but that’s a different issue.
Anyway, look for F&F to be reprinting the 2004 OA and UA ratings in the next month or two.
Update
It now looks as though the 2004 results will be posted on the F&F website, and the 2005 ratings will be in the March issue. It was starting to be a bit late for 2004 and thanks to some phone calls to the AKC, Bob got the full 2005 results over the weekend.