There’s not much. Even less in 2012 than ever before, despite the available technology.
Who’s judging the judges?
Case in point. Vault Judge #2 was singled out as biased by an Alabama fan who did some analysis of scores at SEC Chammpionships.
Judge 2’s total score for each team as compared to actual are shown below:
Florida + .175
LSU + .325
UGA + .175
Kentucky + .20
Arkansas + .10
Alabama minus .225
Auburn +.15
This lady threw out 3 2 perfect 10s to LSU, for … gosh sakes. She went out high on every team — except Alabama.
Read the entertaining thread on College Gymnastics Board – Never has ONE JUDGE so deserved to be called out
That judge should be reprimanded, in my opinion. But if you’d like to defend Mary’s scores, please leave a comment.
The truth of NCAA Gymnastics scoring is that it works well at ranking 12 gymnasts in a dual meet, but does not have enough variation in range to rank more than two teams.
The solution obvious to me is to allow gradations of 0.05 in post-season competition.
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