A School of Continuous Improvement research poster sorts a weekend sports league's RSVP timing and attendance history into a four-cell quadrant that now determines finals eligibility.
RAMP sorts a weekend competition's registration-app data into a quadrant that now decides who plays finals.
A weekend social sports league already asks its players to confirm attendance through a registration app; the School of Continuous Improvement’s Review Cadence Observatory spent the winter season asking what that record was actually worth. A new research poster answers with RAMP, a system that reads a player’s RSVP timing and attendance history back as a placement in one of four cells.
A record that only ever measured whether someone showed up has started deciding who gets to. We didn’t design RAMP to do that; the league’s own committee did, within a fortnight of seeing the first quadrant.
— Dr Osei Vandermeer, Research Fellow and Convenor, Review Cadence Observatory, School of Continuous Improvement
The team tracked RSVP timestamps and check-in records for 214 players across nine divisions of one winter competition, crossing promptness against attendance reliability to place each player in a quadrant cell. Dr Mirela Hanke, Postdoctoral Fellow and Deputy Convenor of the Living Dashboard, said the project traces “how quickly an instrument built to inform a conversation starts having the conversation on its own.”
The competition’s committee has adopted quadrant placement as its sole finals-eligibility instrument this season, superseding the coach discretion and appeal process the previous selection policy allowed. The School counts the adoption among the clearest examples yet of its research shaping a rule rather than only describing one.
The full research poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.cemmvi.