On paper, each of the four events is equally important to a team’s success–each carries a maximum potential score of 50.0, and a good score on one event is worth just as much as a good score on another. However, from the viewer’s perspective, one event may appear to be more critical than another. For instance, we often hear about the advantage that a lineup of strong 10.0 vaults can give a team over one competing mostly Yurchenko fulls, and the importance of a solid beam rotation cannot be understated. This begs the question: is there one event that edges out the others in determining a team’s success? We looked to data from the 2023 season for answers.
Final Team Ranking Compared to Final Event Ranking
Overall, a team’s rank on any given event is closely related to the team’s overall ranking. Top-ranked and lower-ranked teams have more aligned rankings, as seen in the tighter clustering in the bottom left and upper right corners of each graph, while mid-ranked teams have more variation in their comparative rankings.
The pink line through each graph represents the overall trend line for each event. While all of them are nearly a perfect diagonal – a 20th overall ranking is equal to being ranked 20th on beam, for example – the relationship…
