Friday, February 12, 2010

Scoring System Explained

We conducted a 15 round draft in which all players drafted one country for each of the 15 sports.

The following major sports are allotted 175 fantasy points each:

Alpine Skiing
Biathlon
Cross Country Skiing
Figure Skating
Ice Hockey
Nordic Combined
Short Track
Snowboarding
Speed Skating

100 points for gold medals, 50 for silver, 25 for bronze. These points are divided by the number of medals in the sport, so an Ice Hockey gold medal is worth 50 points since there only are two. An Alpine Skiing gold medal is worth 12.5 points since there only are 12 awarded. This evened out the drafting because otherwise the team sports and sports with only a few medals would be worth nothing compared to the sports with 12 medals.
The following minor sports are worth a total of 87.5 points each:

Bobsleigh
Curling
Freestyle Skiing
Luge
Nordic Combined
Skeleton
Ski Jumping

50 points for gold medals, 25 for silver and 12.5 for bronze. Same as before, only we're cutting the point values in half due to the relative importance of the sports compared to numbers being awarded.

Of course these sports are still incredibly valuable. With only 2012.5 points at stake among all the teams, plus undrafted athletes, a 25 point curling gold medal - or even a 3.1 point freestyle skiing bronze - could provide the final margin of victory.

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