Why does TRS put so much emphasis on data entry?
All timing companies live and die by the information that they use to generate results. At least 95% of the problems that we encounter can be attributed to incorrect data. We strongly suggest that each event let us do the data entry for their registrations. If this is not acceptable, we would at least like to receive the data in a timely manner and in a format that we can easily check and import into our scoring software. We prefer to receive as much of the pre registration data from an on line registration as possible. We have found that this cuts down on the key punch errors associated with paper entries (hand writing quirks can be a problem). For day of race registration, we require that our personnel enter the data into our data base. We require this because they are trained to work with our scoring software and are very sensitized to the problems that incorrect entries cause when we generate results. We have some check routines built into out scoring software such as comparing the
