Kit R
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On the "who is the winningest team" thread that devolved into a "who do you dread seeing pull up at a comp" discussion, I said back on the 4th that it would interesting to see a list of teams ranked by average TOY points earned per competition. I also said the list should be limited to teams with at least ten TOY qualifying comps in a year so as to get a large enough sample size to minimize the effect of "outlier" performances like a DAL due to category DQ, a single awesome performance by an otherwise midpack performing team, etc. Looks like KCBS has some interest in the question as well.
LOTS of things to consider if you go down this road that have been touched on by others, but I think five comps is too low for a representative sample. If a team had a great performance early in the season, they'd have incentive to only cook a few more comps, and to select those comps with an eye toward "bottom feeding" to keep the TOY number high. You could do that with more total comps, but the more times you cook the harder it gets to maintain that high level of performance if the one good result was an anomaly.
Not saying that I agree or disagree with the concept, just my observations on the subject. Bottom line, if KCBS introduces money or, God forbid, an actual piece of hardware into this conversation, you better believe that every way to game the system will be used. Better to weed out potential workarounds as early as possible to the extent possible.
LOTS of things to consider if you go down this road that have been touched on by others, but I think five comps is too low for a representative sample. If a team had a great performance early in the season, they'd have incentive to only cook a few more comps, and to select those comps with an eye toward "bottom feeding" to keep the TOY number high. You could do that with more total comps, but the more times you cook the harder it gets to maintain that high level of performance if the one good result was an anomaly.
Not saying that I agree or disagree with the concept, just my observations on the subject. Bottom line, if KCBS introduces money or, God forbid, an actual piece of hardware into this conversation, you better believe that every way to game the system will be used. Better to weed out potential workarounds as early as possible to the extent possible.