Range of Rankings

[oagcplayer]

Just looked at the 3A and 5A Prelims results. Rankings are all over the board between judges. Unless UIL figures out a consistent scoring method for judges to follow, I'm afraid there will always be questions of what a good performance is. I understand that the winners ranked consistently high, but those middle of the pack schools that would consider it a great accomplishment and honor to make finals are really in the dark when it comes to how they stack up versus the competition.

 

And once again, "name" schools with slower shows that have members playing while they are standing still are the winners.

[whitewing09]

A couple of things that should be changed are the range of raw score and the conversion to ordinal rankings (as opposed to raw score or weighted averages) to calculate placement. I think that 1000 is too much to work with and the ordinal representation normalizes the distribution too much.

 

I don't think this ranking system was as much of a problem when there were only 14 bands competing for 7 spots, but when you have over 30 bands competing for 10 spots I think it can pose problems.

Edited November 8, 2012 by whitewing09

[meredithv]

I still haven't figured out what the UIL judges were looking for. Hoping that Bowie scores better at Grand Nats with the BOA scoring system.

[Donezo]

Bowie tied for third at a tough contest. Not sure what there is to complain about.