This paper develops a graphical approach which leads to a new rank correlation
coefficient akin to that of Spearman. This measure appears to stand outside general theory
but has greater power of discrimination amongst differing reorderings of the data whilst
simultaneously being strongly correlated with both and : The development is focused
on situations where agreement over ordering is more important for top place getters than
for those lower down the order as, for example, in subjectively judged Olympic events such
as ice skating. The basic properties of the proposed coefficient are identified