[NSRCA-discussion] Bakersfield Bash scores are on the NSRCA website...

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When we were developing the Judge Ranking Program (Geez, that's over 12 years ago!!), we played some bit with normalization of existing raw Contestant scores against average. In essence, the top scores were normalized to something greater than 1000 points. The issue with normalizing against average goes both ways, considering truncated flights which drop averages. In rounds where flights were cut short, top scores were abnormally improved. That's not the desired result.

In the end there was no value added to Judge Ranking so we dropped it....

BUT, if memory serves, we ended up normalizing Judge scores to the average of all Judges per round. This was the better compromise solution for Judge Rank.

Normalization against Max is another way of presenting the raw score. ALL scores will be less than 1000 normalized points. The disparity between the best score and the next best decreases. In the end, the best flights, fairly judged, will win in either scenario.

MattK


-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Van Putte <vanputter at gmail.com>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Tue, Apr 29, 2014 10:27 am
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+2


Ron Van Putte


On Apr 29, 2014, at 8:19 AM, ronlock at comcast.net wrote:



+1
Ron Lockhart



From: "Mark Atwood" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:01:04 AM
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It does not normalize the rounds.  One round can be worth more than another.  Easy vs hard judges, calm vs windy conditions, etc.  Especially with throw aways it's critical that all the round have the same "value".  


That said, I can see an interest in normalizing to the average score, rather than to the top score.  It minimizes some of the variance when a key flyer doesn't fly the round either due to a problem or simply choosing not to fly after winning the first 4 rounds.  Particularly in that last scenario, it makes the remaining rounds much more valuable to the 2nd and 3rd place flyers.  

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