I've addressed the trend of drastically rising scores in NCAA before (at least weekly), but this should be a somewhat more complete assessment. For each of the last 15 years of NCAA competition, I averaged the team scores of the top 36 teams (regular season) to arrive at a single number to indicate the average score for that season, at least for the higher-level teams. Knowing as I do how much you all love graphs, I have plotted them to display the results:
Certainly, anyone watching last season saw anecdotally that the scores seemed unprecedentedly high around the country (insert obligatory Florida @ Utah, 10.0 for a step on landing, reference here), but we clearly were not just imagining things.
Scores are getting higher, which brings up a couple questions: Is this intentional? Is a point being made of taking fewer deductions, or is this just a natural process over the course of seasons, that scores will always gravitate higher as time passes? Also, is this even a bad thing? Crowds do like their 10s. Should we get over our complaints about not taking certain deductions and bathe ourselves in 9.9s, or should we push for more discerning evaluation?
If you're interested, here is the raw data:
Average regular season score for top 36 teams:
1999 - 193.852
2000 - 194.535
2001 - 195.116
2002 - 194.959
2003 - 195.589
2004 - 196.122
2005 - 194.765
2006 - 194.368
2007 - 194.778
2008 - 195.027
2009 - 195.215
2010 - 195.192
2011 - 195.183
2012 - 195.406
2013 - 195.802
There's a floor ex Pandora station?
ReplyDeleteOn one of my stations I put in a bunch of the stereotypical floor songs, so it gives a variety of floor ex type music.
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