Archive for the ‘Olympics’ Category

Who’s Winning the Olympics?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

I love the Olympics.  I enjoy watching the competition, and occasionally I enjoy the behind the scenes, human interest story.  But one thing that I struggle with is: Who is winning?  Depending win where you look you can see who has the most medals, who has the most gold medals, etc.  So I am going to throw my scoring into the mix.  Yes, it is probably as convoluted as the scoring in figure skating. (what is the difference between at toe loop and a lutz anyway?)  So here’s my scoring:

  1. Every Gold is worth 3 points
  2. Every Silver is worth 2 points
  3. Every Bronze is worth 1 point

Yep, more points for the winners.  But this is where my scoring becomes interesting.  I divide the number of points by the number of athletes.  I found the number of athletes from http://www.vancouver2010.com/.  What I find cool about this is that figures out which country sent the best athletes.  That’s my idea of who wins.  Since this my blog I get to make my own rules.  So without further ado, here’s the current top 10: Final Standings Updated 2/28/10 2:55 pm EST

Place

Country

Athletes

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Points

Points per Athlete

1

Republic of Korea

46 6 6 2 32 .696
2

Netherlands

34 4 1 3 17 .500
3

Norway

99 9 8 6 49 .459

4

Germany

153 10 13 7 63 .412
5

Austria

81 4 6 6 30 .370
6

United States of America

215 9 15 13 70 .326
7

Canada

205 14 7 5 61 .298
8

Croatia

18 0 2 1 5 .278
9

People’s Republic of China

90 5 2 4 23 .256

10

Poland

50

1

3

2

11

.220