- Feb 3, 2021
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The figure skating world has an interesting scoring system. It has its flaws, but it works well in many ways.
What is a completely idiotic system, though, is how they figure out the team rankings.
Here's what the Figure Skating Team Event rankings would be so far (after the shorts) just by totaling scores. I posted this on Reddit, and more people liked a comment based on a misconception than my original post. People think that the higher men's scores are a problem. They're not, because they're ALL higher. What's a problem is the spread of the scores, and it's only a minor discrepancy among the 4 disciplines.
Of course, we gymnerds know more about this stuff because add scores across 4 or 6 events for AA and Team and discuss the issue from time to time. But I guess skating fans don't know that math.
What is a completely idiotic system, though, is how they figure out the team rankings.
Here's what the Figure Skating Team Event rankings would be so far (after the shorts) just by totaling scores. I posted this on Reddit, and more people liked a comment based on a misconception than my original post. People think that the higher men's scores are a problem. They're not, because they're ALL higher. What's a problem is the spread of the scores, and it's only a minor discrepancy among the 4 disciplines.
Of course, we gymnerds know more about this stuff because add scores across 4 or 6 events for AA and Team and discuss the issue from time to time. But I guess skating fans don't know that math.
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