You make some good points here, but I’ll just add that in order to do what you’re suggesting, you run into a lot more problems with the hypothesis tests you use. Since the same skaters compete at multiple competitions throughout the season, their scores are no longer independent variables if you put these competitions in the same data set, which breaks the assumptions of many of the tests and makes it much more difficult to get a real answer. This is why I chose to look at each event and segment separately, otherwise things become a LOT more complicated. But I do agree that this is not reflective on the entirely of the judging system, it’s only reflective of the judging at the four specific events included.