Is there a judging bias towards the SEC teams in College gymnastics?
Many think so.
JuanGone34 posted a video comparison with deductions overlaid.
… comparison of the University of Utah and Georgia at the recent 2009 NCAA gymnastics championships. There was much speculation that the scoring was not equal for all teams, especially on this event, so I put together this video to compare routines side by side. I chose Utah and Georgia because they had the most video available to show the most routines. I wasn’t able to find very many videos of the other teams, but based on this alone I would say Georgia was overscored by at least 5 tenths. …
Click PLAY or watch the video on YouTube.
There’s some commentary on the College Gymnastics Board disagreeing with the “judging bubbles”. (Judging in the NCAA is weird, as you know. Very few errors are deducted. The deductions tiny compared with F.I.G.)
I watched the meet closely.
It seemed to me that — in Prelims — Florida got the most generous scores, Stanford the least generous.
Florida is in the SEC. Stanford is not.
But I really cannot confirm any bias. The SEC teams are really, really good.
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