Siddhartha Talukdar

Chelsea vs Fiorentina is the most likely final

Ah! answering a pointed question with a useless rhetoric. Just the trait of your kind

Before pouting nonsense on Netanyahu, please answer how many Palestinians have been taken by the Arab nations and Turkey so far. Can you elaborate on Black September as well

Ramaswamy lacks any political experience, hence its good for him to not take any political appointments right now. He is still young but highly ambitious and I believe he will eye some position post 2028.

They oppose everything that we do, but they are irrelevant. Pakistan doesn't understand its actually beneficial for them in terms of contingent, cost and weather familiarity. If India does get the hosting, sports like Cricket and Kabaddi are likely to be included where Pakistan definitely is a medal contender. Also Asian slot for Men's Hockey shall be more competitive

They claim the other side to be fascist and dictatorial but themselves aren't willing to accept the popular mandate.

It was never a priority to stop the war but to prolong it to offload the old weapons systems and keep Russia occupied in a conflict. But the West's strategy backfired as it pushed Russia to friendship with China. Many don't realize as Russia and China are actually adversaries even when they shared a common ideology during the Soviet era

The next ICC President shall be Jay Shah from India, so we can virtually consider contingent size starting from 30

Hi @Griff88, @JoshMartini007, @mpjmcevoy, @vinipereira, @Vic Liu, @Cinnamon Bun, @hckošice, @rybak, @Josh, @avlar, @heywoodu, @rybak@MHSN@Epic Failure, @phelps, @ChandlerMne @Grassmarket, @De_Gambassi, @Olympian1010, @konig, @Monzanator , @dodge, @PHI2019, @Fer GUA Attached is points table based on Top 6 performance in each event where 1st place gets 10 points, 2nd gets 7 pts, 3rd gets 5, 4th gets 3, 5th gets 2,6th gets 1. To measure nations' performance few terms have been introduced 'Quota' is number of participants per country in each event. Qualified but non-participation is not included in Quota. 'Top 6' is the number of events a country finished in Top 6. Conversion = Top 6 / Quota which implies Contingent quality. 'Normalized Points' = Points / (Number of events in that sport). For example, if a country wins just 1 Gold in Archery, they will get 10 points but 10 points/ 9 events = 1.11 Normalized Points. This metric will be high for countries who earn points in multiple sports. Sport' can be defined as set of events governed by same federation Salient Observations 1) The nations' rank for points is closely related to rank of total medals won 2) Top spot for is deserved as they have the highest participation, almost 70% conversion and dominate many sports like Athletics, Swimming and Table Tennis 3) finished 9th despite limited participation 4) Best ever successful edition for as finished 21st in medal table and accumulated medals and points in Fencing, Table Tennis and Athletics Please put in your comments and feedback. There might be data errors due to primary data errors, misinterpretation, or less information on a sport ParaOlympics_2024.xlsx

Hi, @Prashanth, @Prakash, @Roamingrover86, @Fly_like_a_don, @nitinsanker, @tirtha22, @sounak , @Indian Sports fan We had a successful Paralympics where we finished in top 20 in either Olympics or Paralympics ever. So I have compiled points table based on Top 6 performance in each event where 1st place gets 10 points, 2nd gets 7 pts, 3rd gets 5, 4th gets 3, 5th gets 2,6th gets 1, . There is also number of participants per country in each event listed which is named 'Quota'. Qualified but non-participation is not included in Quota. 'Top 6' is the number of events a country finished in Top 6. Thus Conversion = Top 6 / Quota which implies Contingent quality. I have also introduced a term called 'Normalized Points' which is Points / (Number of events in that sport). For example, if a country wins just 1 Gold in Archery, they will get 10 points but 10 points/ 9 events = 1.11 Normalized Points. This metric will be high for countries who earn points in multiple sports. 'Sport' can be defined as set of events governed by same federation Salient Observations for India 1) India is 22h ranked in quotas earned and 17th in Points and 20th in Normalized Points which means its a par performance by the contingent 3) In Asia, India is 5th in terms of points ( , , , ) Please give your opinions and feedback on this ParaOlympics_2024.xlsx

Preethi Pal wins bronze in Women's 100m T35 Manish Narwal wins silver in Men's 10m Air Pistol SH1

's first medals as Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal win gold and bronze respectively in Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1

No quotas basically means maximum number of placings possible in an event. So for example, Ireland participated in Men's Hockey there were 16 athletes but just 1 quota as the team can have just 1 placing

The intention of introducing the term to check which nations do well in multiple sports and not just in 1-2 sports. Or sometimes the medal table gets skewed if in a sport extra events are added/deleted or there restrictions in participation itself which may not favour the dominating country (Eg Participation in Weightlifting restricted to 3 in each gender). So would like to know your ideas, how would you calculate 'Normalized Points'. How is winning 100m Freestyle different from winning Handball event

Hi @Gianlu33, @Griff88, @JoshMartini007, @mpjmcevoy, @vinipereira, @Vic Liu, @Cinnamon Bun, @hckošice, @rybak, @Josh, @avlar, @heywoodu, @Epic Failure, @phelps, @ChandlerMne @Grassmarket, @De_Gambassi, @Olympian1010, @konig, @Monzanator , @dodge, @PHI2019, @Fer GUA Attached is points table based on Top 8 performance in each event where 1st place gets 10 points, 2nd gets 7 pts, 3rd gets 5, 4th gets 2.5, 5th gets 2,6th gets 1.5, 7th gets 1 and 8th gets 0.5 pts. To measure nations' performance few terms have been introduced 'Quota' is number of participants per country in each event. Qualified but non-participation is not included in Quota. 'Top 8' is the number of events a country finished in Top 8. Conversion = Top 8 / Quota which implies Contingent quality. 'Normalized Points' = Points / (Number of events in that sport). For example, if a country wins just 1 Gold in Archery, they will get 10 points but 10 points/ 5 events = 2 Normalized Points. This metric will be high for countries who earn points in multiple sports. Aquatics events has been divided into sports like 'Artistic Swimming', 'Swimming', 'Water Polo' and 'Diving' otherwise 'Sport' can be defined as set of events governed by same federation Salient Observations 1) The nations' rank for points is closely related to rank of total medals won 2) is ahead of in points table by a fair distance but very close in Normalized Points as dominates multiple sports like Diving, Table Tennis, Badminton 3) Countries like , , , are ranked high in points table but low in Normalized Points as they won medals in very few sports 4) Despite winning no medals,countries like , , have earned decent points Please put in your comments and feedback. There might be data errors due to primary data errors, misinterpretation, or less information on a sport Olympics_2024.xlsx

Hi @Prashanth, @Prakash, @Roamingrover86, @Fly_like_a_don, @nitinsanker, @tirtha22, @sounak , @Indian Sports fan I have compiled points table based on Top 8 performance in each event where 1st place gets 10 points, 2nd gets 7 pts, 3rd gets 5, 4th gets 2.5, 5th gets 2,6th gets 1.5, 7th gets 1 and 8th gets 0.5 pts. There is also number of participants per country in each event listed which is named 'Quota'. Qualified but non-participation is not included in Quota. 'Top 8' is the number of events a country finished in Top 8. Thus Conversion = Top 8 / Quota which implies Contingent quality. I have also introduced a term called 'Normalized Points' which is Points / (Number of events in that sport). For example, if a country wins just 1 Gold in Archery, they will get 10 points but 10 points/ 5 events = 2 Normalized Points. This metric will be high for countries who earn points in multiple sports. I have divided Aquatics events as 'Swimming', 'Water Polo' and 'Diving' otherwise 'Sport' can be defined as set of events governed by same federation Salient Observations for India 1) India is 26th ranked in quotas earned and but 30th in Points and 28th in Normalized Points which means its a par performance by the contingent 2) We are 5th best nation in Shooting 3) In Asia, India is 4th in terms of quotas behind ( , , ) and 6th in terms of points ( , , , , ) Please give your opinions and feedback on this Olympics_2024.xlsx

Basically the main nations are and minor are Also and have participated in 50 over World Cup

The 2024 T20 World Cup was hosted by and . The current vice captain Alzarri Joseph was born in . Darren Sammy who was World Cup winning captain is from

The laws state that the boundary length must be minimum 60m, but since Eden Park was already a Test venue, all formats can be still played and the law is ignored. But future grounds must follow the boundary length rule

Cricket has a smaller version and is played in Hong Kong called 'Hong Kong sixes' where there are just 6 players per side with 5 overs per innings. The ground is much smaller too and therefore sixes are very common https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Cricket_Sixes

Then can we remove Basketball as USA is dominant

If we can have 3×3 Basketball we should have Futsal as well. Make Men's football 12 team tournament.

Seems like you are too lazy and weak to even enter the kabaddi arena

So whats stopping Algeria from hosting the Games, you could add your own indigenous sports

For me it would be the 360 degree backhand by Lakshya Sen against Jonathan Christie in Badminton Men's Singles. It was an audacious shot and somehow Sen despite being under pressure won that point. It became quite viral in India and few positive highlights for us this Olympics. In the context of the match and the tournament too, the shot was quite important as 3rd seed Christie ended up conceding game point and easily lost the second set and thus the match.