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Fun with Numbers, Rankings

Improvement Rankings (2012 vs. 2011)

Teams are ranked based on the difference between their average score after three weeks in 2012 and their average score after three weeks in 2011.  Teams appearing in either top 25 (2012 or 2011) are included in the list.

Improvement Rankings – 2012 vs. 2011
1. Arkansas +1.842 (196.775 vs. 194.933)
1. Penn State +1.842 (196.000 vs. 194.158)
3. UCLA +1.656 (196.775 vs. 195.119)
4. Nebraska +1.525 (196.575 vs. 195.050)
5. Arizona +1.281 (194.673 vs. 193.392)
6. Ohio State +1.108 (195.483 vs. 194.375)
7. Maryland +0.800 (194.008 vs. 193.208)
7. Alabama +0.800 (196.325 vs. 195.525)
9. Utah +0.780 (196.713 vs. 195.933)
10. LSU +0.675 (194.617 vs. 193.942)
11. Oklahoma +0.652 (196.433 vs. 195.781)
12. Missouri +0.625 (194.308 vs. 193.683)
13. Denver +0.554 (194.517 vs. 193.963)
14. Auburn +0.550 (194.725 vs. 194.175)
15. Boise State +0.500 (195.288 vs. 194.788)
16. Illinois +0.408 (194.900 vs. 194.492)
17. Oregon State +0.337 (195.675 vs. 195.338)
18. West Virginia +0.225 (194.000 vs. 193.775)
19. Georgia +0.087 (196.275 vs. 196.188)

20. NC State –0.542 (194.308 vs. 194.850)
21. Washington –0.550 (194.108 vs. 194. 658)
21. Florida –0.550 (196.158 vs. 196.708)
23. Iowa –0.617 (194.058 vs. 194.675)
24. Michigan –0.872 (194.325 vs. 195.197)
25. Minnesota –0.942 (193.625 vs. 194.567)
26. Southern Utah –0.983 (193.675 vs. 194.658)
27. Stanford –1.000 (195.413 vs. 196.413)
28. Iowa State –1.220 (193.263 vs. 194.483)
29. Kent State –1.920 (193.088 vs. 195.008)

Fun with Numbers

Week 1: The Numbers

(For the purposes of these statistics, I included scores only from teams in the Top 25 preseason coaches’ poll and included all six scores per rotation, not just the five counting scores.)
Average Score by Apparatus – Week 1 
1) Vault – 9.764
2) Beam – 9.620
3) Bars – 9.619
4) Floor – 9.596
Now before you get out your fans and smelling salts because you have the vapors at beam being the second highest scoring event, know that scores of 2.000 from LSU’s Jessie Jordan on bars and Arkansas’s Scarlett Williams on floor skewed the numbers.  Excluding those scores, the list goes as follows:
1) Vault – 9.764
2) Bars – 9.693
3) Floor – 9.672
4) Beam – 9.620
Average Score by Team – Week 1
1) Georgia – 9.785
2) Florida – 9.783
3) UCLA – 9.775
4) Oklahoma – 9.752
T5) Ohio State – 9.738
T5) Arizona – 9.738
Pretty unexpected, huh?  As mentioned, Arkansas’s numbers are odd because of that 2.000 (they would be #3 otherwise), but it’s interesting how dropped falls change everything.  I wouldn’t have guessed that Ohio State and Arizona would be in the top 5 without doing the math.
Numbers per team per apparatus after the jump
Average Vault Score by Team – Week 1
1) UCLA – 9.896
T2) Oklahoma – 9.846
T2) Utah – 9.846
4) Georgia – 9.833
5) Arkansas – 9.825
Average Bars Score by Team – Week 1
1) UCLA – 9.850
2) Georgia – 9.833
3) Arkansas – 9.796
4) Florida – 9.792
5) Iowa – 9.779
Average Beam Score by Team – Week 1
1) Georgia – 9.800
2) Florida – 9.788
3) Washington – 9.754
4) Arizona – 9.738
5) Oklahoma – 9.725
Average Floor Score by Team – Week 1
1) Utah – 9.838
2) Minnesota – 9.804
3) Ohio State – 9.800
4) Florida – 9.792
5) UCLA – 9.738