North American Canoe Paddler Ranking (NACPR)

The North American Canoe Paddler Ranking (NACPR) system was created by Marathon Hall of Fame Historian John Cook when he was updating his system for predicting the top finishing teams for the Marathon. It is meant to be completely objective since everything is determined solely by race times. It determines each paddlers Competitive Ratio, which is a paddlers time compared to the winners time. For example, if you had a time of 17h:00m:00s and the winners time was 14h:30m:00s, your Competitive Ratio would be 0.85294 or 85.294% [14:30:00 / 17:00:00 = 0.85294].

It does this for each of the last nine Triple Crown events, then determines each paddlers best Competitive Ratio during that time, and then ranks all of the paddlers based upon their best Competitive Ratio. Ties between paddlers with the same ratios are resolved by: 1) the paddler who entered the most of the last nine events; and then if there’s still a tie, 2) the paddler with the best average of ratios over the last nine events. If there’s still a tie after that, then the paddlers remain tied with the same rank.

For clarification, these rankings are only for flatwater marathon C-2 canoe paddlers who have competed in a Triple Crown event (General Clinton, AuSable Marathon, La Classique) within the last three years. In order to keep the rankings current, the list will be updated after each Triple Crown event so that it only includes the past nine Triple Crown events (three events per year times three years equals the past nine events).

Please direct any questions and/or comments to stats@ausablecanoemarathon.org

NACPR Lists:

2024:  Spring 2024Summer 2024Autumn 2024
2023:  Spring 2023Summer 2023Autumn 2023
2022:  Spring 2022Summer 2022Autumn 2022
2021:  Spring 2021  Summer 2021  Autumn 2021
2019
 Spring 2019  Summer 2019  Autumn 2019
2018
:  Spring 2018  Summer 2018  Autumn 2018
2017
:  Spring 2017  Summer 2017  Autumn 2017
2016:  Spring 2016  Summer 2016  Autumn 2016
2015:  Spring 2015 – Summer 2015 – Autumn 2015
2014:  Spring 2014 – Summer 2014 – Autumn 2014
2013:  Spring 2013 – Summer 2013 – Autumn 2013
2012:  Spring 2012 – Summer 2012 – Autumn 2012
2011:  Spring 2011 – Summer 2011 – Autumn 2011
2010:  Spring 2010 – Summer 2010 – Autumn 2010
2009:  Spring 2009 – Summer 2009 – Autumn 2009
2008:  Spring 2008 – Summer 2008 – Autumn 2008
2007:  Spring 2007 – Summer 2007 – Autumn 2007
2006:  Spring 2006 – Summer 2006 – Autumn 2006
2005:  Spring 2005 – Summer 2005 – Autumn 2005
2004:  Spring 2004 – Summer 2004 – Autumn 2004
2003:  Spring 2003 – Summer 2003 – Autumn 2003
2002:  Spring 2002 – Summer 2002 – Autumn 2002
2001:  Spring 2001 – Summer 2001 – Autumn 2001
2000:  Spring 2000 – Summer 2000 – Autumn 2000
1999:  Spring 1999 – Summer 1999 – Autumn 1999
1998:  Spring 1998 – Summer 1998 – Autumn 1998
1997:  Spring 1997 – Summer 1997 – Autumn 1997
1996:  Spring 1996 – Summer 1996 – Autumn 1996
1995:  Spring 1995 – Summer 1995 – Autumn 1995
1994:  Spring 1994 – Summer 1994 – Autumn 1994
1993:  Spring 1993Summer 1993Autumn 1993
1992:  Spring 1992Summer 1992Autumn 1992

Triple Crown of Canoe Racing