diff --git a/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/_index.md b/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/_index.md index 7c6e1f2..4db901e 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/_index.md +++ b/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/_index.md @@ -13,19 +13,51 @@ It's more than 12 people. It's more than 24 people. It's probably more than 48 people. Every data set we found had some pretty clear weirdness, -and that was before we looked at the judges we were finding weirdness with. -Once we tied names back in, -we were like, "oh, yeah, that's what we thought all along." +and that was just looking at numbers. +Once we tied names back in to weirdness, +we were like, "oh, yeah, we had a feeling this person was up to something." -So unless there are some *major* changes made, +Unless there are some *major* changes made, we're still going to have corruption in CLRG. -That's just the world you're in. -I hope any new families getting involved understand this. +(Spoiler alert: there will not me major changes made.) +That's just the world you're in with CLRG, +and most other subjectively-judged competitive events. + +I hope any new families getting involved understand this: In order to get into the upper tiers, the way you compete becomes more about politics than dancing. -And by "politics" I mean Machiavellian politics. +And by "politics" I mean corruption. -# Why I'm Not Publishing Any More Tools +That's not to say the dancers at the upper levels aren't excellent dancers: to +recall at a national event, you have to be an excellent dancer. But you might +also be an excellent dancer and not recall, because your parents/coach/teacher +aren't playing the corruption game as well as somebody else's +parents/coach/teacher. + +## The top 11 places are bizarre + +We knew this from [previous analysis](/blog/2022-10-09-CLRG-Scoring.html): +the top 11 places are scored totally differently than places 12-50. +And places 51-100 are placed separately. + +Any large event is actually three separate competitions, +and it's very very difficult to break out if any judge places you in one of these categories: + +| Placing | Comment | +| ---- | ---- | +| 1st - 11th | Strange exponential points category | +| 12th - 50th | Scoring here works the way you assumed it would | +| 51st - 100th | Everybody's fighting for a fraction of one point | + +Please note that this is just my hot take! +You should play with the +[scoring tool](/blog/2022-10-09-CLRG-Scoring.html) I made +to get a feel for how this all works. It's weird! +And it's difficult enough to explain accurately by someone trying to. +I'm not trying to in this section. + + +# I won't publish any more tools I started writing a thing to highlight weirdness in CLRG rankings. You'd give it a ranking sheet, @@ -72,6 +104,34 @@ process is corrupt), what then? I guess I just go on with my life. I can already just go on with my life, I don't have to put in a bunch of work first. +# Parting thoughts + +My kid is a high school senior. +She has a lot of things to look forward to in her immediate future that aren't Irish Dance, +and is winding down her involvement, +so our family is sort of meh about this whole thing. +If she were in elementary or middle school, +I would probably be howling right now and pressing hard to pull her out. + +But maybe there's some value to still doing all this, +even though it's corrupt and she's never going to get a top ranking. +She still wants to compete for some reason, +and practicing has helped her develop a work ethic that will help her later. +In addition, +she's made friends through this; +she's learned how to care for others and talk to new people; +she's learned how to teach; +and she's gained a strong sense of self. +Those are all good things that didn't depend on fair judging. + +The other day I was talking with a woman who runs an after-school program for +black kids who are interested in science and technology. I mentioned that the +winning papers at the statewide computer science contest never seem to integrate +the social justice aspects she's asking her kids to focus on. We kicked that +idea around a while, and wound up convincing each other that the work is worth +doing even if the judging is biased against it. I think the same thing might be +true here. + # Do you care? Are you a regular reader of my blog? (HA HA HA) Do you care about mathematical @@ -90,8 +150,8 @@ I'd be glad to help you with that. Here are the files: -* [feisworx.mjs](Feisworx report scraping code) -* [feisresults.mjs](Feis Results report scraping code) -* [awardpoints.mjs](Code to guess placing given award points, used by feisresults.mjs) -* [types.mjs](JSDoc documentation of some global data structures) -* [dataset.mjs](Some stub code to populate an HTML page with data) +* [Feisworx report scraping code](feisworx.mjs) +* [Feis Results report scraping code](feisresults.mjs) +* [Code to guess placing given award points, used by feisresults.mjs](awardpoints.mjs) +* [JSDoc documentation of some global data structures](types.mjs) +* [Some stub code to populate an HTML page with data](dataset.mjs) diff --git a/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/wat.html b/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/analyzer.html similarity index 57% rename from content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/wat.html rename to content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/analyzer.html index 4f010a1..afeb39f 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/wat.html +++ b/content/blog/2022-10-28-CLRG-Results-Analysis/analyzer.html @@ -1,11 +1,20 @@ --- -title: CLRG Data Analyzer +title: Unfinished CLRG Data Analyzer stylesheets: - dataset.css scripts: - dataset.mjs --- +

+ This won't work because you don't have the datasets. + I can't provide them to you, due to copyright laws. + But if you get the results PDFs, + load them up in Adobe Acrobat, + and save them as XML, + they might load here :) +

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