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Sports Ranking ESPN Grid, essay, etc....Who wins?
I won't spoil it. But they use 10 factors and...XC ties
with...badminton! YIKES! And road bike racing kicks our butts. Waaahhh. Well, interesting stuff. OK, I'll spill the beans: boxing wins. As well it should. : ) If you don't mind your sport not being civilized. -- Jeff Potter **** *Out Your Backdoor * * http://www.outyourbackdoor.com publishing do-it-yourself culture ... bikes, skis, boats & more ... plus radically relevant novels at the ULA's LiteraryRevolution.com ... free music ... tons o' articles ... travel forums ... WOW! |
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Oops: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
-- Jeff Potter **** *Out Your Backdoor * * http://www.outyourbackdoor.com publishing do-it-yourself culture ... bikes, skis, boats & more ... plus radically relevant novels at the ULA's LiteraryRevolution.com ... free music ... tons o' articles ... travel forums ... WOW! |
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Sports Ranking ESPN Grid, essay, etc....Who wins?
"Jeff Potter" wrote in message ... I won't spoil it. But they use 10 factors and...XC ties with...badminton! YIKES! And road bike racing kicks our butts. Waaahhh. If you are a television sports network, you first decide which sports you want on top of the list, then define which criterias to use to get them at the desired ranking. So you want it to be 1. boxing 2. ice hockey and 3. football? Dilute ENDURANCE, by giving ths factor only 10% of the total score. Add STRENGHT, so all these guys with 100 lbs of protective gear get the max. score Etc., etc., etc. The criteria that made me smile most: durability. Defined as "The ability to withstand physical punishment over a long period of time", a few seconds of rodeo will take you to the top ten, whereas nordic skiing ties with surfing, right after baseball. Baseball is so very punishing, indeed... Whatever their ranking is, mine is quite different. When I'm skiing, skiing is No.1. When I'm cycling, cycling, is No.1. And so on. JMC P.S. Funny that nordic skiing and badminton are tied; I like both just as much. |
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Sports Ranking ESPN Grid, essay, etc....Who wins?
I like the fact that the experts considered nordic skiing to be only
slightly more demanding of the 'athlete' than auto racing. In the ranking categories, auto racing requires much more hand-eye coordination(!) and 'analytic aptitude' than nordic skiing, yet seems to require more than half the endurance, strength, agility and 'durability' of nordic skiing. But any list like this that considers fishing to be an athletic endeavor is certainly not speaking my language. Jim Farrell -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Sports Ranking ESPN Grid, essay, etc....Who wins?
Jeff Potter wrote:
Oops: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills This is the tipical yankee crap. All the American sports are in the top 10 (baseball? please, that's just a game, should be in the same class as bowling or darts), while almost none of the Eurosports is the top 10. Some aren't even considered at all (I didn't notice Ski jumping for instance). Even their poll is biased, you can't push up sports like Alpine Skiing (Downhill is the most difficult of them all, IMHO) or Cycling, for instance, only change the top 10 among mainly yankee sports. I would like that the Eurosport website tries to do this with Euro sport experts. I bet the result would be completely different. |
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