Medal Count - Ranking Method

[Mozz]

On a few different sites, they use different methods to rank nations:

1) Total number of gold
2) Total number of medals

Currently, the US has 6 gold medals but only 9 total (6,2,1), while Norway has 1 gold medal but 13 total (1,6,6).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/medals_table/default.stm

 

[Kasumi]

I couldn't care less. ^__^

 

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Probably I would advocate using weighted number of medals.

IE, Golds count for 3 points, Silvers for 2, Bronze for 1.

So the US would have (6x3)+(2*2)+(1*1)=23
Where Norway would have (1x3)+(6x2)+(6x1)=21

Falling that, I much prefer total number to total gold, but...

 

[MajesticArcanine]

welll... all in all, it doesn't matter, really. I voted for "gold metals", however, if a country has a high amount of bronze, more power to them. Gold just means "hey we have the VERY BEST atheletes. Go us." So it is slightly degrading to score based on gold. At the flip side, norway has what? Only one or two golds right now, but of course they've racked up the most amount of metals. So I don't know.

 

[MajesticArcanine]

Probably I would advocate using weighted number of medals.

IE, Golds count for 3 points, Silvers for 2, Bronze for 1.

So the US would have (6x3)+(2*2)+(1*1)=23
Where Norway would have (1x3)+(6x2)+(6x1)=21

Falling that, I much prefer total number to total gold, but...

Yeah. that is also a fair way to do it. It's an impartial system. Hey, if a big scandal ever errupts on the internets, maybe they will use your system XD.
I still am annoyed at how the judging system changed for figure skating. The last one was so much more straight forward than this one.

 

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Straightforward, schmaightforward. The old system was rife with bad calls and corruption, and it needed changed.

The new system is much harder to corrupt, and people are actually rewarded for the quality and difficulty of what they do, rather than whether or not what they do fit the pet peeves of the judges.

 

[MajesticArcanine]

Straightforward, schmaightforward. The old system was rife with bad calls and corruption, and it needed changed.

The new system is much harder to corrupt, and people are actually rewarded for the quality and difficulty of what they do, rather than whether or not what they do fit the pet peeves of the judges.

true. however, now I just don't understand what makes a good score, or even how to compare others scores! I just think that it is much more complicating to compare peoples scores. like 100 pts. What is that? a good , a bad score? I don't get it. I can't be bothered to MEMORIZE skaters' individual scores. I just liked the straightforward scores.... It's better that this system is more free of corruption, however it is more complicated and this I dislike.

 

[Mozz]

42/Don't Care/Either/Archaic
Archaic, Birdboy2000, Crimson Flames, Kasu-chan
4 44.44%

Can't believe you voted for yourselves

 

[Kasumi]

Hey, at least I stated my reason above: I just don't care.

 

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Current top-10s, according to each system :

Gold Medals take all (Silver as tiebreaker, bronze as tiebreaker for silver) :
Germany - 9
Austria - 8
United States - 7
Russia - 7
Canada - 5
Switzerland - 4
South Korea - 4
Sweden - 4
Italy - 4
France - 3

By total medals (no tiebreakers) :
Germany - 22
Austria - 19
United States, Canada, Norway - 18
Russia - 16
Switzerland - 11
Sweden, Italy - 10
France - 8

By weighted totals (3-2-1)
Germany - 48 (9-8-5/27-16-5)
Austria - 41 (8-6-5/24-12-5)
United States - 39 (7-7-4/21-14-4)
Canada - 36 (5-8-5/15-16-5)
Russia - 33 (7-3-6/21-6-6)
Norway - 30 (2-8-8/6-16-8)
Switzerland - 22 (4-3-4/12-6-4)
Sweden - 20 (4-2-4/12-4-4)
South Korea - 19 (4-3-1/12-6-1)
Italy - 18 (4-0-6/12-0-6)