The WSCA All-State Team Selection is based on two primary and distinct criteria groupings that have been selected and determined by the board of directors and are now incorporated within the bylaws of the organization.

 The first criteria that the bylaws define is that the WSCA All-State Team would be chosen using the NSCA All-State Team criteria as the initial baseline.

 That criteria, as defined by the NSCA is:  

·        Each Team consists of 16 All-State members; five from Open; one person from each concurrent-LY, SJ, JR, VT, SUPER VT; and one person from each class-Master, AA, A, B, C, D, & E.

·        Team selection priority: Open, concurrent, then class.

·        Persons selected for an All-American Team are ineligible in order to recognize an entire new category of shooters.

·        Selection is based on wins, State Shoot score and total shoot performance.

·        Open team is listed alphabetically. To be eligible for Open team, shooters must have attained “AA” classification by year end.

·        A minimum of 500 registered targets shot within the home state by each individual.

·        Mandatory attendance is required at the resident State Championship for all categories. If there was not a State Championship, no team will be selected for that state.

·        End of year residence determined status.  

The second grouping of criteria are those that the board decided were necessary modifications to the NSCA national All-State Team criteria that would better reflect equitable selection within the State of Wisconsin.  

·        The teams were expanded to include a second team for all concurrents and all classes.

·        Persons selected for the All-American team would be eligible for the WSCA All-State Team.

·        A requirement of a minimum of 1000 registered targets shot within the State of Wisconsin for the Open and Class teams, and a minimum 500 targets shot with the State of Wisconsin for all concurrents; during that eligible year.

·        A Captain will be chosen for the team determined by the highest accumulated shoot performance and State Shoot performance point value.

·        In the case of a tie, the tiebreaker will be the shooters score at that years State Championship.

·        Shooters are only eligible for one All-State team spot, that hierarchy being determined by the NSCA criteria.

·        A three person review committee is appointed by the board to review the information received from the NSCA.  

Commonly asked Questions  

Q. - What does the NSCA mean by wins and shoot performance and how does the WSCA get that information.  

A. – The NSCA has a points system based on the size of a shoot (number of shooters in attendance) and a formula that determines the number of points a shooter is awarded for winning, and highly placing at the shoot. As the shoot get larger, the point value of the win or placement also goes up. The WSCA Secretary places a request for the NSCA shoot performance information on all Wisconsin shooters after the year has been concluded and the All-American Teams are selected.  

Q. – How does the “shoot performance and wins” compare with the State Shoot score?  

A. – The way the NSCA formula works, the total shoot performance (accumulated win points) counts for about 75% and the State shoot Score counts for about 25%.  

Here is how that works.  

Shooters are ranked by their win points and then are awarded a point value for their ranking within the state. That value runs from 30 points awarded for the shooter with the highest win point total to 1 point awarded to the shooter that had the 30^th highest win point total. (All ties in win points receive the same rank value).  

Shooters also receive a point value for their placement at the State Shoot. The State Champion would receive 10 points and runner up 9 point on down through the tenth highest score.  

The highest awarded point value a shooter may accumulate is 40.  

Don’t let this minimize the value of shooting well at the State Shoot, since the State Shoot is normally the largest shoot held in the state every year so it will also have the highest “win point value” as well as it’s own State Shoot point value.  

Additionally, the same formula is used independently for the Open team, the concurrent teams and the class teams.  

Q. - How can we have a shooter make the All-American team and not make the first team All-State or Captain in Wisconsin?  

A. – Using the NSCA scoring criteria shooter A could place first in win points and receive 30 points  and second in the State shoot (or their class or concurrent) and receive 9 points and accumulate a point value total of 39. Shooter B could finish a distant second in win points, but no matter how big the gap in total wins points the shooter would still receive the second rank point value of 29. Then if they won the state shoot (or their class or concurrent) they would receive 10 points for a total of 39 points. There would then be a tie with the shooter with the higher placement at the state shoot (or class or concurrent) would prevail as the first team selection or Captain. In this case that would be shooter B.