One of the more important things in ski jumping, that also makes a difference between good and bad jumper is the way they react to external conditions (wind). Some simply use wind in more efficient way - and it has been like this since the beginning. Everybody is talking about how this will be more fair system, but I ask again, how many really undeserving winners were there during the last 5 years?? Yes, sometimes only the wind can make the difference between two great jumpers, but hey, isn't it like this in all sports? How many times the football finals were decided on penalty shootouts - and penalties are nothing more than luck lottery -
but those teams needed to play great to even reach the final. Everybody is now talking that the Klingenthal was again (just like always) a wind lottery competition - but even without wind bonuses / deductions, Schlierenzauer would still won! And guess what, it was his 5th straight victory in this 'unfair' ski jumping hill. Or maybe he simply gets best conditions every time he is there, so all his victories in this 'unfair' ski jumping hill are nothing more than a coincidence.
But hey, lets create another sport just for the pleasure of greedy TV stations, why don't we just rename ski jumping into math jumping?
The starting problem with these rules is that there is NO WAY that these formulas (wind and gate factors) can be 100% correct for every single jumper - but even a 0.01 m/s wind difference also brings difference to final score (0.01 m/s = 0.1 points). What does it mean anyway 'average wind speed', how is it calculated? If we take only the first 4 seconds of every jump to calculate it, what about those jumps that last more than 4 seconds?
Anyone with a normal brain knows that the wind doesn't work the way Walter Hofer (or should I say the new Isaac Newton) tries to prove.
Has he answered how will they include crosswinds in these formula? Real life is no ideal world where wind always blows directly in your chest or your back - like these formulas are trying to prove.
In the end, we will replace one 'unfair' system by another unfair system, but at least before jumpers were given an opportunity to make the best of the conditions themselves, and not to simply rely on some computer calculations.