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@ -13,19 +13,51 @@ It's more than 12 people.
It's more than 24 people. It's more than 24 people.
It's probably more than 48 people. It's probably more than 48 people.
Every data set we found had some pretty clear weirdness, Every data set we found had some pretty clear weirdness,
and that was before we looked at the judges we were finding weirdness with. and that was just looking at numbers.
Once we tied names back in, Once we tied names back in to weirdness,
we were like, "oh, yeah, that's what we thought all along." 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. we're still going to have corruption in CLRG.
That's just the world you're in. (Spoiler alert: there will not me major changes made.)
I hope any new families getting involved understand this. 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, In order to get into the upper tiers,
the way you compete becomes more about politics than dancing. 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. I started writing a thing to highlight weirdness in CLRG rankings.
You'd give it a ranking sheet, 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. 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? # Do you care?
Are you a regular reader of my blog? (HA HA HA) Do you care about mathematical Are you a regular reader of my blog? (HA HA HA) Do you care about mathematical
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Here are the files: Here are the files:
* [feisworx.mjs](Feisworx report scraping code) * [Feisworx report scraping code](feisworx.mjs)
* [feisresults.mjs](Feis Results report scraping code) * [Feis Results report scraping code](feisresults.mjs)
* [awardpoints.mjs](Code to guess placing given award points, used by feisresults.mjs) * [Code to guess placing given award points, used by feisresults.mjs](awardpoints.mjs)
* [types.mjs](JSDoc documentation of some global data structures) * [JSDoc documentation of some global data structures](types.mjs)
* [dataset.mjs](Some stub code to populate an HTML page with data) * [Some stub code to populate an HTML page with data](dataset.mjs)

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--- ---
title: CLRG Data Analyzer title: Unfinished CLRG Data Analyzer
stylesheets: stylesheets:
- dataset.css - dataset.css
scripts: scripts:
- dataset.mjs - dataset.mjs
--- ---
<p>
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 :)
</p>
<h1>2021 Irish Dance North Americans 21A</h1> <h1>2021 Irish Dance North Americans 21A</h1>
<div class="clrg-dataset" data-url="2022-10-10 2021 Irish dance north Americans 21A.xml"></div> <div class="clrg-dataset" data-url="2022-10-10 2021 Irish dance north Americans 21A.xml"></div>