Hello folks!
With all the speculation on what the JGPF criteria will be, I was curious to see what previous years' women's GPF would look like if we had a blended field of top medalists and high scorers. So by blended field, I mean that the normal criteria still apply but the 2 (or 4 if ISU would be so generous) highest scoring skaters who are not already eligible are also selected. Kind of like wildcard choices.
Below, I have a table of the top 12 total scorers for the past 4 GPFs. Unfortunately, the table doesn't paste over from excel with formatting so I've had to make do. Apologies if it's difficult to read!
Key:
Bold - wildcard entry
Bold italics - expanded wildcard (if ISU gave us 4)
Orange italics - just missed out
Red - withdrawn
Note that we have to go all the way back to 16/17 season to see all 6 of the top scorers at the GPF!
In 17/18 season, Evgenia withdrew which allowed Satoko in, who had 1st/5th. Maria Sotskova was incredibly lucky with her GP assignments and actually had 2nd/2nd despite being further down in the total score rankings. It worked out for RusFed though as Maria came 2nd at GPF that year.
On the opposite side, Mai Mihara was incredibly unlucky and missed out 3 times, 2 times if ISU only have 2 wildcards but she again would miss out by 0.35 points
What do people think? Is it time to expand the GPF field? With the boom in Russian figure skating, I imagine it won't be too difficult to sell tickets to cover the cost (at least for womens!).
With all the speculation on what the JGPF criteria will be, I was curious to see what previous years' women's GPF would look like if we had a blended field of top medalists and high scorers. So by blended field, I mean that the normal criteria still apply but the 2 (or 4 if ISU would be so generous) highest scoring skaters who are not already eligible are also selected. Kind of like wildcard choices.
Below, I have a table of the top 12 total scorers for the past 4 GPFs. Unfortunately, the table doesn't paste over from excel with formatting so I've had to make do. Apologies if it's difficult to read!
Key:
Bold - wildcard entry
Bold italics - expanded wildcard (if ISU gave us 4)
Orange italics - just missed out
Red - withdrawn
| 19/20 season | Total | 18/19 season | Total | 17/18 season | Total | 16/17 season | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alena Kostornaia | 476 | Satoko Miyahara | 439.18 | Evgenia Medvedeva | 455.6 | Evgenia Medvedeva | 442.19 |
| Alexandra Trusova | 475.49 | Alina Zagitova | 438.24 | Carolina Kostner | 428.22 | Anna Pogorilaya | 426.07 |
| Rika Kihira | 462.17 | Rika Kihira | 430.23 | Alina Zagitova | 427.68 | Kaetlyn Osmond | 402.45 |
| Anna Shcherbakova | 453.8 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | 422.34 | Wakaba Higuchi | 419.69 | Elena Radionova | 401.5 |
| Evgenia Medvedeva | 435.38 | Kaori Sakamoto | 411.32 | Kaetlyn Osmond | 419.68 | Maria Sotskova | 396.23 |
| Alina Zagitova | 434.05 | Mai Mihara | 407.01 | Satoko Miyahara | 405.83 | Satoko Miyahara | 390.08 |
| Bradie Tennell | 427.45 | Sofia Samodurova | 396.71 | Polina Tsurskaya | 405.75 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | 380.56 |
| Mariah Bell | 418.86 | Evgenia Medvedeva | 390.72 | Kaori Sakamoto | 404.59 | Mai Mihara | 380.2 |
| Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | 414.77 | Bradie Tennell | 390.67 | Mai Mihara | 404.24 | Wakaba Higuchi | 379.67 |
| Young You | 409.3 | Mariah Bell | 389.21 | Elena Radionova | 402.34 | Gabrielle Daleman | 378.73 |
| Satoko Miyahara | 403.6 | Stanislava Konstantinova | 387.24 | Maria Sotskova | 401.3 | Ashley Wagner | 377.82 |
| Kaori Sakamoto | 401.71 | Eunsoo Lim | 381.94 | Gabrielle Daleman | 385.97 | Karen Chen | 357.84 |
Note that we have to go all the way back to 16/17 season to see all 6 of the top scorers at the GPF!
In 17/18 season, Evgenia withdrew which allowed Satoko in, who had 1st/5th. Maria Sotskova was incredibly lucky with her GP assignments and actually had 2nd/2nd despite being further down in the total score rankings. It worked out for RusFed though as Maria came 2nd at GPF that year.
On the opposite side, Mai Mihara was incredibly unlucky and missed out 3 times, 2 times if ISU only have 2 wildcards but she again would miss out by 0.35 points
What do people think? Is it time to expand the GPF field? With the boom in Russian figure skating, I imagine it won't be too difficult to sell tickets to cover the cost (at least for womens!).
. But medalists, high scorers, all have equal plusses and equal minuses.)
