As a numbers guy, I've kept track of best potential AA scores for the top gymnasts in each open ended code. For each apparatus, I give each gymnast the best score they received during all world championships and the Olympics during that quad.
I wanted to share the average scores on each event of the top 10 AA gymnasts in each code to compare how balanced each code was.
2006-2008 (Liukin, Johnson, Yang, Nistor, Ferrari, Semenova, Barbosa, Jiang, Memmel, Tweddle)
VT: 15.175 UB: 16.120 BB: 15.705 FX: 15.248
2009-2012 (Komova, Douglas, Mustafina, Wieber, Raisman, Yao, Bross, Jiang, Huang, Izbasa)
VT: 15.448 UB: 15.294 BB: 15.124 FX: 14.976
2013-2016 (Biles, Raisman, Mustafina, Douglas, Iordache, Ross, Nichols, Shang, Yao, Downie)
VT: 15.280 UB: 15.210 BB: 14.939 FX: 14.858
2017-2020 so far (Hurd, Murakami, Smith, Black, Eremina, de Jesus dos Santos, Derwael, Alt, Steingruber, Varinska)
VT: 14.321 UB: 14.252 BB: 13.063 FX: 13.530
Each code has improved on the balance up to 2016. So we will have to wait and see how this quad looks once we are deeper into it. I don't think it's a surprise that beam was the lowest by far, followed by floor, and then vault and bars as the highest scoring events. Do you guys think the code will end up being pretty balanced by the end of the quad?
Balance of 2017-2020 COP compared to previous open ended codes
