Big Mo's Rankings through July 3, 2014

[BigMo]

WORLD CLASS
1. 85.766 Blue Devils
2. 81.866 The Cadets
3. 81.133 Carolina Crown
4. 80.933 Bluecoats
5. 80.866 The Cavaliers
6. 80.500 Santa Clara Vanguard
7. 80.033 Phantom Regiment
8. 76.233 Madison Scouts
9. 73.733 Blue Knights
10. 72.300 Blue Stars
11. 71.066 Boston Crusaders
12. 70.533 The Troopers

13. 69.700 Spirit of Atlanta
14. 69.333 Crossmen
15. 67.700 The Colts
16. 66.000 Oregon Crusaders
17. 63.650 Mandarins
18. 63.640 The Academy
19. 63.575 Jersey Surf
20. 62.057 Pacific Crest
21. 57.900 Pioneer
22. 55.100 Cascades

OPEN CLASS
1. 61.300 Columbians
2. 61.133 7th Regiment
3. 60.633 Spartans
4. 57.700 Genesis
5. 56.233 Vanguard Cadets
6. 55.237 Gold
7. 54.550 Blue Devils B
8. 52.600 Legends
9. 48.930 Golden Empire
10. 48.666 Colt Cadets
11. 48.232 Impulse
12. 47.000 Raiders
13. 43.112 Watchmen
14. 42.040 City Sound
15. 41.733 Racine Scouts
16. 38.112 Incognito
17. 34.262 Blue Devils C

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[theCHEZman]

That Bristol, RI show through everything out of whack.

[N.E. Brigand]

OPEN CLASS

1. 61.300 Columbians

Little mistake: Columbians' score on Wednesday was 51.3 not 61.3, putting them in 8th place for O.C. at that point.

[Cavfan930]

How were these computed? Just wondering since I have my own spreadsheet for tracking the rankings. I average all of a corps performances, then add that to their highest score in order to make a power ranking of sorts. I think it helps present a clearer picture of where things are at right now rather than looking at the season as a whole. Because ultimately, it doesn't matter if corps A has a slightly higher average, corps B just has to beat them on finals night.

[BRASSO]

Since its the Semi's and the Finals ( for the top 12 ) that only count ( and that are remembered ), for the June and July shows before we get to the Regionals, in order to rank and place the Corps in a meaningful way, I find the best methodology, among about a dozen out there that is utilized, is to utilize a black blindfold that covers my eyes, and to position myself approx. 15 feet away from a dartboard with the names of the Corps on the board. I then have 25 darts that I toss at the board for my meaningful rankings. It works well for me, although to be sure the rankings generally have not much use by Finals. I also tend to forget the dartboard methodology rankings by august, and also tend to forget where I put the dartboard and my darts. But I usually am able to find my blindfold, dartbard, darts each May to begin the process again. But I think my methodology is not as precise and as meaningful as what others use here. So next year, I am thinking of using a Ouija Board in late June and early July, and wonder if this methodology will provide me with more meaningful late June, early July placements, and if so, does anyone here think I should publish my rankings that come out from this method.. or not ?

Edited July 6, 2014 by BRASSO