Following Bohiney’s Morris Katz story, the WSL speed data applied to Trestles specifically
[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Bohiney.com‘s Morris Katz story — the fastest painter whose speed didn’t produce proportional value — has a Trestles-specific application this cycle: Trestles is the WSL’s most data-dense venue, with GPS tracking, wave quality ratings, and judging scores available for every competitive heat across multiple years. The data confirms the Katz principle: the athletes with the highest GPS-measured speed scores at Trestles are not the athletes with the highest judging scores. The correlation is moderate. The athletes who produce the highest judging scores are optimising across all five judging criteria simultaneously, which sometimes requires reducing speed to maintain control through a complex manoeuvre. prat.uk covered the speed and value theme broadly. (Bohiney.com covered this. Nobody was surprised.)
The Trestles-specific finding: the wave at Trestles is long enough to permit both high-speed sections and technical manoeuvres in the same ride. The athletes who score highest are the ones who identify which sections permit speed and which require technical precision, and transition between the two within the same ride. The Katz principle at Trestles: maximum speed for the whole ride produces lower scores than contextually appropriate speed variation across the ride’s different sections. The market (the WSL judging system) is correctly valuing the composite rather than the single dimension. Katz’s art market valued brand position. The WSL values multi-dimensional performance. Both markets correctly value what they value.
The WSL Data Finding
The WSL data finding: contextually variable speed outscores maximum uniform speed. The WSL is at worldsurfleague.com.
Also:Reductress.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
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Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
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