The Great Big A2K Fantasy Olympics Game For 2012!

Good plan.
As you know, I'm incompetent to be a commish. Will happily be in a scary name league.

realjohnboy - redneck from Virginia, USA
Ticomaya
McGentrix
tsarstepan
ossobuco
Unsullied
Iautah
ehBeth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
mitso23
George - Stoneham, MA, USA
Rhy - Stoneham, MA, USA
Skin Rip
fbaezer
shuho
markr - California, USA
hingehead
wheel158 - Michigan, USA
jetabor - Michigan, USA
em19usa - Michigan, USA
Ecartmill - Michigan, USA
tabormom - Michigan, USA
tgordon92 - Washington, DC, USA
wheel158_son#1 - Michigan, USA
wheel158_son#2 - Michigan, USA
lmur
sdelong - Florida, USA

realjohnboy - redneck from Virginia, USA
Ticomaya
McGentrix
tsarstepan
ossobuco - female native to Los Angeles now living in New Mexico, U.S.
Unsullied
Iautah
ehBeth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
mitso23
George - Stoneham, MA, USA
Rhy - Stoneham, MA, USA
Skin Rip
fbaezer
shuho
markr - California, USA
hingehead
wheel158 - Michigan, USA
jetabor - Michigan, USA
em19usa - Michigan, USA
Ecartmill - Michigan, USA
tabormom - Michigan, USA
tgordon92 - Washington, DC, USA
wheel158_son#1 - Michigan, USA
wheel158_son#2 - Michigan, USA
lmur
sdelong - Florida, USA

Group A: USA women & United Kingdom
Group B: Japan, Cuba, South Korea
Group C: Jamaica, Brazil, Argentina, Romania, & Kenya
Group D: Croatia, India, Ireland, Portugal, & Mexico

Welcome, Melis. #27.

I like the idea of dividing into divisions or leagues, or conferences, or whatever we want to call them. Perhaps we could divide based on geography?

I'm not sure that the scorekeeping is any easier if there are multiple commissioners. Once the initial scoresheet is populated with countries and with peoples' picks, it doesn't make a difference if you're entering medals for six contestants or 26.

I realize that by saying how easy this is, I've put myself close to volunteering to keep score, and as defending champion I probably have an obligation to do so. (That's the prize that someone was asking about.) I'll volunteer to do so, with the caveat that scoring may be a bit delayed at times due to the fact that I'm getting married six days after the Olympics end, and wedding-related tasks may take priority over prompt scoring from time to time. If there's another volunteer who feels that they can take care of the scoring, though, I'd be happy to let them do so.

I can help with scoring. I setup a Google spreadsheet here (hope you can see it):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AjBRzgc7V3MGdEFPcnNnRjk2OUlZWm45YU9VbFloSHc

We don't have to use it--I'm open to other ideas. But once you enter all the initial picks, the scoring will auto update when the medal counts are entered. And with a Google doc, we can share the burden...

Let me know what you think.

All for it, here.

Group A - Great Britain, Russia
Group B - France, Italy, Japan
Group C - Brazil, Czech Republic, Jamaica, Kenya, New Zealand
Group D - Azerbaijan, Croatia, Ethiopia, Iran, Kazakhstan

realjohnboy - redneck from Virginia, USA
Ticomaya
McGentrix
tsarstepan
ossobuco - female native to Los Angeles now living in New Mexico, U.S.
Unsullied
Iautah
ehBeth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
mitso23 Adelaide, Australia
George - Stoneham, MA, USA
Rhy - Stoneham, MA, USA
Skin Rip
fbaezer
shuho
markr - California, USA
hingehead
wheel158 - Michigan, USA
jetabor - Michigan, USA
em19usa - Michigan, USA
Ecartmill - Michigan, USA
tabormom - Michigan, USA
tgordon92 - Washington, DC, USA
wheel158_son#1 - Michigan, USA
wheel158_son#2 - Michigan, USA
lmur
sdelong - Florida, USA


URL: http://able2know.org/topic/191272-7

Ticomaya - grimbribber from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

I'm also planning to track all scores with my own spreadsheet. Redundancy will be good.

Czech Republic is in group C, not group D.

Jahiegel -- Kazakhstan is actually in Group C (there was a mistake in the originally-posted rules). Can you please revise?

Thanks for the correction - revised below.

A United States - men; Russia

B Canada; Japan; Ukraine

C Brazil; Jamaica; Kenya; New Zealand; Sweden

D Greece; South Africa; Lithuania; Uzbekistan; Ireland-stan

Hi osso. Every time I cook lemon chicken, I think of you!

I agree. It's easy to make a mistake -- especially with the USA and China being split by gender.

On a side note: on your spreadsheet, do you record only the running medal tally (total), or do you list the medal count for each day separately? Just curious...

Apologies for multi-posting....

realjohnboy - redneck from Virginia, USA
Ticomaya
McGentrix
tsarstepan
ossobuco - female native to Los Angeles now living in New Mexico, U.S.
Unsullied
Iautah
ehBeth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
mitso23 Adelaide, Australia
George - Stoneham, MA, USA
Rhy - Stoneham, MA, USA
Skin Rip
fbaezer
shuho
markr - California, USA
hingehead
wheel158 - Michigan, USA
jetabor - Michigan, USA
em19usa - Michigan, USA
Ecartmill - Michigan, USA
tabormom - Michigan, USA
tgordon92 - Washington, DC, USA
wheel158_son#1 - Michigan, USA
wheel158_son#2 - Michigan, USA
lmur - Former Economic Powerhouse of Ireland
sdelong - Florida, USA

wheel158,

I like your spreadsheet, but I may go with the one I used last time around. It's got a little less functionality (it doesn't automatically rank the teams), but will require a lot less data entry up front. I'll post it in the next couple of days.

I appreciate that other folks will be keeping their own spreadsheets. The redundancy will be helpful in catching my inevitable mistakes!

realjohnboy - redneck from Virginia, USA
Ticomaya - grimbribber from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
McGentrix
tsarstepan
ossobuco - female native to Los Angeles now living in New Mexico, U.S.
Unsullied
Iautah
ehBeth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
mitso23 Adelaide, Australia
George - Stoneham, MA, USA
Rhy - Stoneham, MA, USA
Skin Rip
fbaezer
shuho
markr - California, USA
hingehead
wheel158 - Michigan, USA
jetabor - Michigan, USA
em19usa - Michigan, USA
Ecartmill - Michigan, USA
tabormom - Michigan, USA
tgordon92 - Washington, DC, USA
wheel158_son#1 - Michigan, USA
wheel158_son#2 - Michigan, USA
lmur - Former Economic Powerhouse of Ireland
sdelong - Florida, USA