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Global Handicaps is the arm of the Global Event Management System (GEMS) that analyzes performance data to set team roper handicaps.
This system analyzes over 350,000 teams per year on $100 million in prize money. Each year, Global Handicaps does a year-end summary, examining trends in handicapped team roping.
“While team ropers, for the most part, could or would never want to try to understand the algorithms, this summary was interesting to me, and I wanted to share it with you,” said John Johnson, USTRC President. “There's not much here, but it says a lot. Based on the number of ropers who are always telling me they are afraid of getting their number raised, it appears a lot of ropers…