Correlations Between Category Score and Placement By Competitor at the Lone Star Championships 2021

ABSTRACT

In competitive rifle exhibition drill, there are many common refrains related to the judging and scoring of routines. These include but are not limited to, specific categories on the scoresheet influence placement more than others and specific judges influence placement more than others. To begin looking for any truth to these statements, data from the Lone Star Championships 2021 (LSC) was used to create correlational models relating individual judges and their scores to competitor placement in the preliminary round. This dataset suggests that at LSC 2021, individual categories did strongly correlate (r ³ 0.90) to placement, these being “Impression”, “Composition and Flow”, “Handling”, “Marching”, “Precision”, and “Showmanship”.

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