New Posts For Thread: Great Britain 4th on Medal table?https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-tablehttp://www.foxnews.com/sports/olympics/2012-medal-count/index.htmlGB are fourth behind Russia in third.Canada with 1 gold medal are 2 places higher than Hungary who have 8 gold medals.Only in America!Now the USA would be top if the medal table was baPerhaps you could do it dividing by GDP, calculating a co-efficient of natural genetic predisposition for individual sports and dividing this by a stochastic t-score of the level of care anyone has for this purile non-debatehttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522921807#522921807Perhaps you could do it dividing by GDP, calculating a co-efficient of natural genetic predisposition for individual sports and dividing this by a stochastic t-score of the level of care anyone has for this purile non-debateSun, 12 Aug 2012 10:45:24 -0500Per Capita wouldn't really workSomeone like Grenada is nailed on the moment it gets a goldIn fact we would need 600 golds to beat Grenada's current ratiohttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522921291#522921291Per Capita wouldn't really workSomeone like Grenada is nailed on the moment it gets a goldIn fact we would need 600 golds to beat Grenada's current ratioSun, 12 Aug 2012 10:27:02 -0500Points system with values assigned to the different medals- say 4-2-1- a silver worth two bronzes, a gold worth two silvers...Semenya apart, they're all going for gold out there. Any system that doesn't value gold more favourably is pointless. Wouldhttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522921245#522921245Points system with values assigned to the different medals- say 4-2-1- a silver worth two bronzes, a gold worth two silvers...Semenya apart, they're all going for gold out there. Any system that doesn't value gold more favourably is pointless. WouldSun, 12 Aug 2012 10:25:17 -0500sure what other way is therehttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522920805#522920805sure what other way is thereSun, 12 Aug 2012 10:11:00 -0500Oh, so you're using an approach where gold has no greater value than silver or bronze, I see.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522917169#522917169Oh, so you're using an approach where gold has no greater value than silver or bronze, I see.Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:21:11 -0500Well behind GB even on that.all medals not just goldhttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522916865#522916865Well behind GB even on that.all medals not just goldSun, 12 Aug 2012 08:09:04 -0500Doesn't favour larger nations when events are limited to one and three competitors per nation, if anything it skews medal opportunities towards smaller and weaker nations. Were all the events fully open the biggest countries would greatly increase thhttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522916743#522916743Doesn't favour larger nations when events are limited to one and three competitors per nation, if anything it skews medal opportunities towards smaller and weaker nations. Were all the events fully open the biggest countries would greatly increase thSun, 12 Aug 2012 08:03:58 -0500Per capita is a non sensical measure unless only looking at individual events.Will heavily favour larger nations otherwise.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522916493#522916493Per capita is a non sensical measure unless only looking at individual events.Will heavily favour larger nations otherwise.Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:52:13 -0500Well behind GB even on that.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522916351#522916351Well behind GB even on that.Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:47:12 -0500So in Ireland's case,turn it upside down and divide by 10.No its the Per Capita Medals table, which puts us ever so slightly behind Britainhttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29310529/great-britain-4th-on-medal-table?post_id=522915541#522915541So in Ireland's case,turn it upside down and divide by 10.No its the Per Capita Medals table, which puts us ever so slightly behind BritainSun, 12 Aug 2012 07:15:03 -0500