Category: judging

Ski Jumping Judging Bias

Ski jumping competitions involve subjective evaluations by judges from different countries.

This may lead to nationalistic bias, according to which judges assign higher scores to their compatriots.

To test this claim empirically, we exploit within-performance variation of scores from all World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic Games competitions between the 2010/11 and 2016/17 seasons. (15,000 jumps)

Our findings confirm that judges assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The magnitude of this nationalistic bias is significantly higher in more corrupt countries.

We do not find that judges assign significantly different scores to jumpers whose compatriots are present on the judging panel. …

March 2021 – Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Nationalistic Bias among International Experts: Evidence from Professional Ski Jumping

Most biased were the Russian judges. Judges from Finland and Norway showed no bias.

Trinity 10.0 Vault

YES.

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Jade’s Floor

Very difficult to deduct.

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Haleigh Bryant – perfect Vault

The one 10.0 that nobody contests was Haleigh from last weekend.

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BUT … could it be better?

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Olympic Champ’s 1st 10.0

Suni’s going to collect a LOT of these on Bars over the next 4 years.

39.825 AA !

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three 10s in a row on Vault

Reyna Guggino, Natalie Wojcik, Abby Heiskell.

#history

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NCAA Bars scoring

Up to level

Unless. There are several possible routine-composition deductions in NCAA routines, but the one you’ll hear about the most during the season is the “up to level” deduction (UTL).

This deduction is a flat .10, taken from any routine that does not fulfill the standard of being “up to the competitive level.”

What does that even mean? Good question. …

Balance Beam Situation – WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring

ZOU Jingyuan – P Bars

Every once in a while you should remind yourself that perfection is possible.

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