Proposal 50: Scoring [ Revision 1 ]
Committee: FreestyleSubmitted on 2015-04-03
Status: Passed on April 15, 2015
Background
Right now the scoring rules in the rulebook aren't very clear. It is not clear at what point the judges scores get turned into rankings. Is it when they are still in presentation and technical? Or is it for all of the scores as a whole? Additionally, the way the scores are now you cannot see the difference between the riders. You lose how close in score they are if the scores just get turned into rankings. It makes much more sense to keep the proportion that the judges want. This lets us see truly how close the scores are.
Proposal
Old Rules:
5.10 Scoring
In all events except Standard Skill, the scores of each judge are transferred into placing points, which represent the ranking of each competitor by that judge. The highest scoring competitor gets 1 placing point, the next one gets 2, and so on.
Note: The ranking number, or highest placing point available for a competitor depends on the number of entries in that category. If two or more competitors have the same score, they are awarded equal portions of the total number of placing points available for the places they occupy in the ranking.
Example: Seven competitors. Four of them tie for 2nd place. 7th place gets 7 points, 6th place gets 6 points, and 1st place gets 1 point. For the other four competitors, add up the other placing points numbers: 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 14. Divide this by the number of competitors (4) to get 3.5 placing points each. 69 a Freestyle & Standard Skill Overview
5.10.1 Removing The High And Low
After determining placing points as above, discard the highest and lowest placing score for each rider. If Rider A has scores of 1,2,1,3,2, take out one of the ones, and the three. Then Rider A has 1,2,2, for a total of 5. If Rider B has scores of 2,2,2,2,2, he will end up with 2,2,2, a total of 6. The winner is the competitor with the lowest total placing points score after the high and low have been removed.
5.10.2 Ties
If more than one competitor has the same placing score after the above process, those riders will be ranked based on their placing scores for Technical. The scoring process must be repeated using only the Technical scores for the tied riders to determine this rank. High and low placing scores are again removed in the process. If competitors’ Technical ranking comes out equal, all competitors with the same score are awarded the same place.
New Rule:
5.10 Scoring
To tabulate the scores in Artistic Freestyle events (not X-Style or Standard Skill), each judge’s scores in a category or age group are totaled and restated as a percentage of that judge’s total points for that category or age group, i.e. the judge’s relative preferences for each performer. Then the percentages from all of the judges are totaled together. This is done first in both Performance and Technical. Once a percentage total for each competitor has been calculated for both Performance and Technical, these percentages are combined together to see the final results.
5.10.1 Removing Scores
All of the judges scores must be kept. The Chief Judge has the power to remove scores only if they are deemed to be biased or other extreme cases occur.
5.10.2 Ties
In the case of a tie where more than one competitor has the same placing score after the above process, those riders will be ranked based on their placing scores for Technical. The scoring process must be repeated using only the Technical scores for the tied riders to determine this rank. If competitors’ Technical ranking comes out equal, all competitors with the same score are awarded the same place.
Body
In order to have the most accurate scores possible we need to maintain the proportion between the riders for as long as possible. Here is a link to a google doc that shows how this calculation would work. There are three pages, one for Performance, one for Technical, and one showing the total scores. We used numbers from the Expert Female competition at NAUCC 2014. The scores are real. Interestingly enough the overall placing did not change but the overall scores between Rider 1 and Rider 2 are much closer than they were with the old system. If you used this in a competition with more competitors we might have seem results change due to the increase in accuracy.
If you wish to play around with the numbers on this spreadsheet please make a copy of it (File-Make a copy...). Please do not play with the numbers on this original spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19-WJQKSsHPCLkJRDAqVB4Cu_vZ6cXSNrH5-q1PvhVgU/edit#gid=0
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Discussion
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Votes on this proposal:
18 out of 27 voting members have voted.
Agree: 12, Disagree: 6, Abstain: 0.