2012 Senior Collegiate Livestock Judging Power Rankings

How is this calculated?

Each team in any collegiate livestock judging contest we can obtain results for is given a rating between 2.0 and 1.0.  The 1st place overall team is given 2.0 points.  The second place team is given 1.95 points, the 3rd place team 1.9 points, and so on through the top 20 teams.

The power ranking is an average of up to the top ten finishes for a team in the past year.  All power ratings are normalized to 1.0 thus creating an average power rating of 1.0.

Only teams with at least five contests on record are included in the ranking and only the top seven finishes for each team are taken into consideration for their average.  Because of this, the average power rating for all teams shown on this list will not average 1.0.

Only contests held over the past 12-months are included in the rating.

Contests are weighted more or less heavily based on the ranking of the top five teams in the contest.

The NAILE is given twice the weight of other contests.