How to build a gymnastics team.

This article focuses on a statistical method to select the optimal United States women’s artistic gymnastics team for the 2024 Paris Olympics, aiming to maximize overall medal success. Using data from recent major competitions and a metric combining athletes’ mean scores and score stability (standard deviation) across the four apparatuses—vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise—the authors identify Simone Biles, Shilese Jones, Konnor McClain, Kaliya Lincoln, and Jade Carey as the best candidates. The method accounts for individual apparatus strengths, all-around performance, and team composition, emphasizing consistency alongside high scores. While the approach assumes the US team’s strong medal prospects in all events and does not incorporate difficulty or execution scores, it provides a transparent, data-driven framework for team selection based solely on US athletes’ recent performances.