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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Goodness! Maybe it’s not about times. Maybe it’s most improved effort or sportsmanship or whatever. Sometimes it’s that X factor that can’t be calculated with “advanced math”.[/quote]

Most Improved is straightforward math.
If a coach wants to give out a sportsmanship award, thats something different.

If my kid dropped the most time and didn't get the most improved award for his age/sex then I would want an explanation as well.[/quote]

Each team may, of course, set their own rules. But even just focusing on the math may not be straightforward. For example, is it a greater improvement for (a) a new swimmer to drop from 1:30 to 0:45 in freestyle, or (b) for a more experienced swimmer to drop from 0:40 to 0:25 in free, or (c) for swimmer to learn a new stroke and go from illegal in breast to a 0:30 breast? These things all happen with 8&Us. And a reasonable argument could be made for any to be the greatest improvement. I actually think that (a), which the greatest time drop — both in raw time and percentage — if you are using pure math — shows the least improvement of the three because it is very easy to drop significant time as a beginner. [/quote]

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