dimanche 4 novembre 2018

Scoring Systems

Looking at the numbers awarded this year, I think the scoring system actually did a good job balancing out Difficulty vs. Execution. You couldn't win medals with Great Execution by itself if your difficulty was significantly lower, but if your difficulty was only slightly higher, it couldn't carry you if you had execution mistakes.

The top 6 AA medalists ranked by D-score:

1. Biles: 25.4
2. De Jesus Dos Santos: 22.7
3. Melnikova: 22.6
4. Hurd: 22.3
5. Murakami: 22.0
6. Derwael: 21.3

The top 5 AA medalists ranked by E-score:

1. Derwael: 34.399
2. Murakami: 33.798
3. Hurd: 33.432
4. Melnikova: 33.198
5. De Jesus Dos Santos: 32.899
6. Biles: 32.191

Interesting that the rankings are completely opposite of eachother:

Biles: 1st in D, 6th in E
De Jesus Dos Santos: 2nd in D, 5 in E
Melnikova: 3rd in D, 4th in E
Hurd: 4th in D, 3rd in E
Murakami: 5th in D, 2nd in E
Derwael: 6th in D, 1st in E

E-score enthusiasts should actually be encouraged to see the final rankings primarily give an edge to those with higher E-scores. The two exceptions are Biles and Derwael. But I don't think that's a bad thing. Derwael's place shows that you DO need difficulty. That if it's significantly lower, it will hold you back, BUT that great Execution will keep you close enough to factor into the medals depending on how your higher-D competitors do that day.

And Biles placement just shows something that is always going to be a possibility in an additive system. Yes, her E-score was 1.5-2.0 lower than everyone else, but her D-score was 2.7 more than DJDS and 4.1 over Derwael. There was no way Derwael was going to make up 4 points just by execution. DJDS however, with her higher D, could have come close to Biles if she executed the way Derwael did.

Don't know how much sense that all made. I just think that for the most part, both D and E were valued well in relation to each other in this competition. I cannot think of any scoring system, other than the 10.0 that would prevent an athlete like Biles from winning with falls. So while I can understand those who simply want the 10.0 back, I don't think it makes sense to NOT want the 10.0 but also say an athlete should never be able to win with major errors.

Because I don't think we can have it both ways. Winning with errors will always be a possibility without the 10.0, but even in this system, winning with Biles' errors is going to be rare. Biles is just a rare gymnast. And, as I pointed out with DJDS, other athletes COULD have won this competition with superb execution and just a little more difficulty. But anyway, in general, the scoring looked like it worked pretty well.
Scoring Systems

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