Team rankings by ACES Score
Trap and skeet teams from the High School Clay Target League and SCTP, ranked on the whole team using the ACES Score. Teams need at least 8 scores to be ranked.
MN SCTP seeds Minnesota SCTP teams into conferences of 5 to 7 the way the proposed virtual league would; switch to Conferences to see them. Until teams sign up for the season, the MN SCTP teams shown are simulated stand-ins. MN Combined ranks Minnesota SCTP and High School League teams together.
Sporting clays and 5-stand courses differ from field to field, so those events are compared head to head on the same course rather than by ACES Score.
Week by week
Each week, teams in a conference are paired head to head on their ACES Score. A win earns 2 points and a tie 1, and any team that beats its seeding baseline earns +1, win or lose. A team with a bye plays the conference average. Pick MN SCTP, or Nationwide to see the league with every team in the country.
W win (2 pts) · T tie (1) · L loss (0) · +1 beat the team's baseline · Baseline = ACES Score from the seeding weeks · Scores = 50-target scores posted that week
How the ACES Score works
Most team scores add up the top few shooters. That rewards a team with two stars and a weak bench. The ACES Score looks at the whole spread of a team's 50-target scores and adds five points from its box plot.
- MedianThe middle score on the team. Half the scores are above it.
- Q3Upper quartile: 75% of scores are at or below it. Shows how strong the upper half is.
- Q1Lower quartile: 25% of scores are at or below it. Shows how solid the lower half is.
- Lower whiskerQ1 − 1.5 × (Q3 − Q1), but never below the team's lowest score. A long tail of low scores pulls it down.
- MaxThe team's best 50-target score.
Four of the five numbers describe the middle and bottom of the team. Only one rewards the single best shooter. A team climbs when its newest shooters improve.
Each part tops out at 50, so a perfect score is 250. The parts are statistics, not sums, so a team of 8 and a team of 80 are compared fairly no matter how many rounds each posted. Quartiles use the same inclusive method as Google Sheets QUARTILE.
Built by the ACES team
Who we are
The Aitkin County Elite Sharpshooters (ACES) are a youth shooting team in central Minnesota. We created the ACES Score to see how our whole team was doing, and we host these rankings so every team can compare the same way.
We're always looking to add new shooters. If you're interested, reach out.
Questions or scores to add
Email us with questions about the ACES Score. Youth programs not listed here can send their 50-target trap or skeet scores to be added to the rankings.
aitkincountyelitesharpshooters@gmail.com