The genius of the Bakersfield is the almost full points for “near misses.”
That’s what Weems didn’t understand when he proposed making the second scoring zone 8 instead of 10 points. That fundamentally changes the risk/rewards and discourages going as fast.
For example if the target is 8” and that’s 10 points… but the next scoring zone is -10… I’m going to go at my 4” circle pace. That might be a 0.25 split.
If the target is 8” and 10 points… and the next scoring zone is 5 points, I might go at a pace where I make a 6” circle and it might be 0.20 splits.
If the target is 8” and 10… and the next scoring is 9 points, I’ll go at a pace that uses 7.5” and that might be 0.15 splits.
Here are two videos illustrating that I made a couple years ago (I’m a better shooter now).
It’s at 17 yards.
Look at how the pace changes when I choose to confirm more and make it into a “can’t miss” drill.
Without exploring and developing capabilities, you don’t know what you don’t know and you can’t dial it back when you need to. Without dialing it back too much.