Dunadan

I'm starting to write a new book The Little (Black)-Red-(Gold) Book of Sports, Quotations from a great Fan of the Olympics Chapter 1 - Definitions 1) No-name = every athlete who has a <90% chance of medal.

Only speaking of team events: - World Cup and Continental Championships: 64 points for the winner and so on , example http://fie.org/competitions/2018/744/results/rank - World Championships: 128 points for the winner and so on, example http://fie.org/competitions/2018/247/results/rank

The FIE Ranking http://fie.org/results-statistic/ranking is like tennis: for every competition, a team/fencer defend the points won in the corresponding competition the previous year. The Olympic Ranking will be the FIE Ranking as of 4 April 2020 (so counting results from April 2019). So if you are only interested in the Olympic Ranking, you can think that in April 2019 every team/fencer starts from zero points. For teams, you add the points gained at World Championships + Continental Championships + best 4 results at Team World Cups in April 2019- 4 April 2020. For individuals, you add the points gained at World Championships + Continental Championships + best 5 results at World Cups/GP in April 2019- 4 April 2020.

that's the World Ranking, which is different from the World Cup Classification: https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Rankings.aspx?evt=11213100000062&amp;rep=19254 In the World Cup Classification, best 4 results are counted.

Best 4 results.

Agree, anyone who can't watch it is not a real fan.

Final Standing (after a revision) Rank User Nation Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 #PP #4 #3 #2 1 Dunadan 63 7 7 1 7 23 18 0 9 3 1 2 CiroMennella99 59 4 7 2 6 17 23 0 8 2 4 3 Henry_Leon 56 4 10 1 6 17 18 1 6 4 3 4 titicow 55 7 7 3 5 10 23 0 8 2 0 5 Dolby  52 7 10 1 5 10 19 2 6 4 2 6 juliosilva 51 5 7 1 4 17 17 1 7 1 1 7 bestmen 51 2 7 1 6 14 21 0 5 3 3 8 mrv86 49 2 7 0 4 23 13 0 7 2 0 9 Speedy 47 10 7 1 4 11 14 1 7 2 1 10 ady48 46 7 10 1 5 9 14 1 6 3 1 11 dcro 46 7 10 3 5 10 11 1 6 2 2 12 George_D 44 6 7 4 3 11 13 0 3 4 2 13 africaboy 43 7 10 1 5 9 11 1 5 3 1 14 thepharoah 43 2 5 3 6 8 19 0 6 2 2 15 Federer91 42 6 10 0 7 9 10 1 4 2 1 16 SteveParker 42 4 7 1 4 13 13 0 5 2 1 17 Pablita 41 5 10 1 4 13 8 1 6 1 1 18 vlad 41 4 10 1 2 8 16 1 5 2 1 19 Vojthas 41 5 10 0 4 6 16 1 5 1 3 20 thiago_simoes 41 4 7 1 5 9 15 0 5 1 0 21 Herberth N. B. S. 40 2 5 3 5 14 11 0 4 2 2 22 heywoodu 38 1 7 3 5 7 15 0 5 1 0 23 AlfHg 37 2 10 0 5 6 14 1 3 2 4 24 Olympian1010 36  1 10 0 6 6 13 1 5 2 2 25 Ufilov 32 10 2 1 2 11 6 1 2 1 3 26 Bearas 32 2 5 0 6 8 11 0 4 2 2 27 rybak 31  2 7 0 6 8 8 0 2 3 1 28 FC Mezhgorye 26 6 5 1 4  5 5 0 2 1 1 01: October 29th - 1 Event 02: October 30th - 1 Event 03: October 31st - 1 Event 04: November 1st - 1 Event 05: November 2nd - 5 Events 06: November 3rd - 5 Events Mistakes are always possible, PM me if you notice any. #PP - number of perfect predictions #4 - number of correct gold medal winners #3 - number of correct silver medal winners

Done, now everything has been completed.

It has already been written, but I don't think it makes much sense to keep this thread separated from the World Cup thread...imo merging them in a "FIE World Cup and Grand Prix 2018-19" would be better.

Live results links, not all present on FIE website: Turin Foil GP http://engarde-service.com/files/federscherma/torino2019/ Vancouver M epee https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/30C68854F67F43C2BD4FFF1536EDFE13#today Barcelona W epee http://www.engarde-service.com/files/fce/ticb2019/

Not yet, the worst two results are scrapped so Van Ruijven still has a chance.

Hannes Reichelt didn't attend the Bib choice despite being in the top 10 of the WCSL...so he will apparently start as 45th tomorrow.

Hi, I edited that post so it's not hidden if it is of any help. Spreadsheet attached, quite easily modifiable for future contests of this kind.

Yes, you are right as always...clearly a yuuuge expert like you shouldn't be bothered by lesser beings.

Absolutely pointless race, completely unworthy. The fact that almost everyone on the blue course won clearly shows that this course was ridiculous. I guess Joerg cant believe her luck. A couple of years ago someone like her never would have gotten a gold medal in PGS, but sadly the level of competition is at an all time low. I miss the days of Ledecky (misspelling her name makes me feel cool ) ... [semicit.]

So it's not a prediction...just another medal count almost identical to this thread.

Is the article online? Do they really say that it is a prediction? Totallympics predicts nothing...this thread is meant to be a simple medal count, not a prediction

[hide]  Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Super-G Day 1 February 5th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer x Ramona Siebenhofer Stephanie Venier Ester Ledecka Viktoria Rebensburg Federica Brignone Sofia Goggia x Tina Weirather Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami Lindsey Vonn Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 2 February 6th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr x Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer x Dominik Paris x Kjetil Jansrud Alexander Aamodt Kilde Axel Lund Svindal Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz Any Other Athlete Women's Alpine Combined Day 3 February 8th, 2019 Ricarda Haaser Ramona Siebenhofer Any Athlete from Canada Any Athlete from France Marta Basino Federica Brignone Ragnhild Mowinckel Ana Bucik Ilka Stuhec Wendy Holdener x Petra Vlhova x Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Downhill Day 4 February 9th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr x Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Adrien Theaux Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer Dominik Paris x Alexander Aamodt Kilde Kjetil Jansrud Axel Lund Svindal Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz x Bryce Bennett Any Other Athlete Women's Downhill Day 5 February 10th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer x Ramona Siebenhofer x Stephanie Venier Romane Miradoli Kira Weidle Viktoria Rebensburg Nicol Delago Nadia Fanchini Sofia Goggia x Tina Weirather Ilka Stuhec Corinne Suter Lara Gut-Behrami Lindsey Vonn Any Other Athlete Men's Alpine Combined Day 6 February 11th, 2019 Romed Baumann Marcel Hirscher Vincent Kriechmayr Marco Schwarz x Alexis Pinturault x :FRA Victor Muffat-Jeandet x :ITA Dominik Paris :NOR Alexander Aamodt Kilde :NOR Kjetil Jansrud Pavel Trikichev :SUI Mauro Caviezel :SUI Luca Aerni :USA Ted Ligety :WHT Any Other Athlete Mixed Team Event Day 7 February 12th, 2019 :AUT Austria :CAN Canada :FRA France x :GER Germany :ITA Italy :NOR Norway :SVK Slovakia :SLO Slovenia Sweden x :SUI Switzerland x :USA United States :WHT Any Other Nation Women's Giant Slalom Day 8 February 14th, 2019 :AUT Any Athlete from Austria :FRA Tessa Worley x :GER Viktoria Rebensburg :ITA Federica Brignone :ITA Marta Bassino :NOR Ragnhild Mowinckel :SVK Petra Vlhova x :SLO Meta Hrovat Frida Hansdotter :SUI Wendy Holdener :SUI Lara Gut-Behrami :USA Mikaela Shiffrin x :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 15th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher x :FRA Mathieu Faivre :FRA Thomas Fanara :FRA Alexis Pinturault x :GER Stefan Luitz :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen x :NOR Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen :SLO Zan Kranjec Mats Olsson :SUI Loic Meillard :USA Tommy Ford :WHT Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 10 February 16th, 2019 :AUT Katharina Liensberger :AUT Bernadette Schild :AUT Katharina Truppe :CAN Erin Mielzynski :GER Christina Geiger :ITA Irene Curtoni :SVK Petra Vlhova x Frida Hansdotter Anna Swenn Larsson :SUI Wendy Holdener x :USA Mikaela Shiffrin x :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 11 February 17th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher x :AUT Michael Matt :AUT Marco Schwarz :FRA Clement Noel x :FRA Alexis Pinturault Dave Ryding :GER Felix Neureuther :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen x Andre Myhrer :SUI Daniel Yule :SUI Ramon Zehnhaeusern :WHT Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Hopefully they will meet in Rome because there's an UCI meeting or something that they should have attended anyway. Either that or they are stealing money from their organizations to go on a holiday.

Yes but if I understand correctly this is a big modification of your previous system and is actually quite close to the current one: Points will be awarded as follows: - For right predicted Gold Medal Winner - 4 points 3 points - For right predicted Silver Medal Winner - 3 points. - For right predicted Bronze Medal Winner - 2 points 3 points - For right predicted Athlete/Nation but wrong place/medal - 1 point 2 points - Bonus points: 1 bonus point will be awarded to predictor who predicted all medalists correctly, regardless of the order (1-2-3, 1-3-2, 2-1-3, 2-3-1, 3-2-1, 3-1-2). I think one would have to compare different predictions (about a single event and a whole contest) and decide which one is better to come up with the best system: Example: Results: 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 2. Kjetil Jansrud 3. Beat Feuz User A predicted: 1. Kjetil Jansrud 2. Beat Feuz 3. A.L. Svindal User B predicted: 1. D. Paris 2. C. Innerhofer 3. Beat Feuz Which is the better prediction? P.S. 1) I still prefer the current system; 2) I think that whoever runs the contest (doing most of the work) should be entitled to use the scoring system that he thinks is the most fitting...no need to use always the same system if there are different managers.

Because predicting a correct gold means that you started ordering the athletes in the correct order, while guessing bronze correctly is mainly due to luck if you previously missed gold and silver. Example: Result: Svindal- Jansrud- Feuz Prediction: Paris - Innerhofer - Feuz... you guessed Feuz "only" because two people that you hadn't predicted finished ahead of him...imo this is lucky. Now I have a question...in my previous post why should User A get more points than User B?

I don't agree at all...I think the current system is much better and it's fair to give more points for gold. Example using wumo's suggestion: suppose you have a contest with 11 events (like alpine skiing). User A predicts correctly all bronze medals but nothing else...so 0 G, 0 S, 11 B for a total of 11 medallists in correct positions. User B predicts correctly gold and silver in 6 events and nothing else for a total of 12 medallists in correct position: 6 G, 6 S, 0 B. In my opinion User B predicted (much) better than User A but the standings would be: User A 44 points User B 36 points This doesn't make much sense to me.

Just as a comparison, I've had a look at the 2016 balance sheet of the Italian Basketball Federation on their website...it looks like they paid 2.5 million € to FIBA for a men's OQT ...according to the press, they had to offer at least 1.7 million in order to bid.

Hosts announced: http://www.fivb.org/EN/Media/viewPressRelease.asp?No=80434&amp;Language=en Men's tournaments - August 9-11:Pool A: Hosts are BulgariaTeams in pool: Brazil, Egypt, Bulgaria, Puerto RicoPool B: Hosts are NetherlandsTeams in pool: USA, Belgium, Netherlands, KoreaPool C: Hosts are ItalyTeams in pool: Italy, Serbia, Australia, CameroonPool D: Hosts are PolandTeams in pool: Poland, France, Slovenia, TunisiaPool E: Hosts are RussiaTeams in pool: Russia, Iran, Cuba, MexicoPool F: Hosts are ChinaTeams in pool: Canada, Argentina, Finland, China

Hosts announced: http://www.fivb.org/EN/Media/viewPressRelease.asp?No=80434&amp;Language=en Women's tournaments - August 2-4:Pool A: Hosts are PolandTeams in pool: Serbia, Puerto Rico, Thailand, PolandPool B: Hosts are ChinaTeams in pool: China, Turkey, Germany, Czech RepublicPool C: Hosts TBC*Teams in pool: USA, Argentina, Bulgaria, KazakhstanPool D: Hosts are BrazilTeams in pool: Brazil, Dominican Republic, Cameroon, AzerbaijanPool E: Hosts are RussiaTeams in pool: Russia, Korea, Canada, MexicoPool F: Hosts are ItalyTeams in pool: Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Kenya