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Title: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: disco_stu on January 03, 2010, 01:09:05 PM
Seems to me that the weighting applied to the olympia is too large.

This is particularly evident comparing Dex and even Kai to Branch.

Branch has some 7ths, a few 4ths, and the single 2nd place at the 'O and yet is given ranking no. 2.

Dex has a bunch of 1sts and his worst is 3rd...

Kai too consistently placed higher than branch.

If you look at the rankings, the list is almost exactly as they placed at the 'O- meaning that the effect of other competitions, and the reward for competing more is virtually superfluous.

So why bother if the rankings are a mirror of the 'O placings?

Seems ridiculous to me and makes the term "rankings", and "RAS Statistics" a bit of a joke.

In tennis, you could win wimbledon and the US Open and not compete the rest of the year and therefore not be no.1. But you'd rank high.

To see branch at no.2 is a great example of how this "rankings system" doesnt work.

Finally, the rankings should not be based on placings alone, it should be based on scoring at each show. This would allow the closeness of some shows to be taken into account.

Currently this rankings calc is stupid.

Ron please post your raw stats- show scores for each show and I'll excel up a better system for you thats fair.

Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: chaos on January 03, 2010, 01:11:21 PM
WTF are you talking about ???
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: Spike on January 03, 2010, 01:13:40 PM
RULES OF THE GAME AS DEFINED BY BOB CHICK ON HOW TO PLACE HIGH IN THE IFBB/UPPER NPC SHOWS:

dont be too gay about it(i.e. no homo) - keep your mouth shut on the internet/mags - dont openly critize anyone in the admin of the IFBB - smile - just do photos and lay low
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: disco_stu on January 03, 2010, 11:11:44 PM
WTF are you talking about ???

are you a bit slow?
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: timfogarty on January 04, 2010, 12:14:28 AM
are you a bit slow?

I have no idea what you're talking about either
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: calfzilla on January 04, 2010, 01:12:34 AM
Quit trying to view bodybuilding as a sport.  Hope this helps. 
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: gcb on January 04, 2010, 01:16:56 AM
yeah the pro-rankings, no one looks at those anyway
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: timfogarty on January 04, 2010, 01:19:04 AM
yeah the pro-rankings, no one looks at those anyway

do they include wnbf pros?  nabba pros?  wabba pros?  nac pros?  nga pros?  musclemania pros?
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: Azn Muscle on January 04, 2010, 02:20:09 AM
They should switch to a playoff system, fuck the rankings.
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: bodybuilder1234 on January 04, 2010, 04:25:27 AM
Not really sure what you are trying to say here
Branch was an upset at this year's Olympia, occasionally you just get bodybuilders who pop out of nowhere.

Kai, Phil, Dexter were all top ranked and not surprisingly in the top 5
Title: Re: how are the rankings calculated?
Post by: gcb on January 04, 2010, 04:53:40 AM
do they include wnbf pros?  nabba pros?  wabba pros?  nac pros?  nga pros?  musclemania pros?

ifbb pros
they use to publish them in the back of that muscle-mag rag