Ladies PCSs scores in the protocols are lower in the SP because they are multiplied by a factor of .80. In the LP they are multiplied by a factor of 1.60 so they count twice as much.
For men, the factors are 1.00 and 2.00.
The reason they do this is because they want to keep the total points from the LP and the SP to stay at about two to one in every catagory. This is like the old ordinal system where the ordinals were "factored" with a weight of .33 on the SP and .67 on the LP.
Yes, they do try to make it so that the Program Components come out to be about equally important with the tech. Not for each individual skater necessarily, but overall.
For instance, a top lady might be able to get 32 in tech the LP and twice that much -- 64 -- in the LP. If that same skater got straight 8's in the PCS, this would be 40 points.
But in the SP, multiply that by .8 to get 32 points. In the LP, multiply by 1.6 to get 64. So now the tech and the PCSs are about the same proportion in both the SP and the LP.
