Tokyo 2020(1) Fantasy Olympics

Ahhhhhh July 20th! I better get serious

In addition to the spreadsheet, I'm going to provide what should be a phone-friendly web page. I've got a small site hosted by a Raspberry Pi that I use for keeping track of my game nights and murder parties. I've added a page for the current standings.
Your browser will warn you that it is not a secure site. The server will automatically update its local copy of the medal counts for each country every 15 minutes. Additionally, the page will auto refresh its display (our standings) every 15 minutes based on the local copy of the medal counts. Note that these two updates are asynchronous. The medal count updates will happen four times per hour on the quarter hour. The page updates will be in fifteen minute intervals based on when you pull up the page.
It's a simple, clean display that will just show the standings. The URL is:
http://pinkmeeple.ddns.net:8080/tokyo
If you use this URL, you won't need to log in. If you try to get to other pages on the site, it will ask you to log in, but should only allow access to this page. The username/password for this page (if you find you need it - you shouldn't) is tokyo/a2k.
You can go there now if you want. It, as well as the spreadsheet, is currently displaying standings based on 2021 predictions and 2016 results per wikipedia.

By the way, the web site and the spreadsheet differ by 5 for tgordon92 because the IOC country code for Singapore change from SIN to SGP after the 2016 Olympics. Shouldn't be an issue when we get real results, but it's something to keep an eye on. Lebanon's changed at the same time.

GBR
JPN
GER
NED
FRA
KOR
BRA
CAN
JAM
BEL
SUI
UZB
GEO
RSA
ARG
Total 910

I count only 907 - not 910.

Let's see how the new tablet manages this




Should be around 908. I kept buggering up LTU's cost.

I get 907.

I suspect that is the effect of adding Puerto Rico

Participation seems to be a bit lower than previous years. How would folks feel about extending the deadline to sometime Friday? I'm not worried about anyone getting a competitive advantage from knowing the results of the early softball and football matches.

No objection.

Hi Mate

North Korea pulled out of the Olympic

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/apr/06/tokyo-olympics-north-korea-pulls-out-of-games-citing-coronavirus-fears

New entry deadline is 4:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, July 23. Feel free to resubmit.

Note that North Korea (PRK) has pulled out. At this point, that affects only lmur.

Here's my team guys

Bahrain BRN 9
Canada CAN 41
Colombia COL 19
Croatia CRO 21
Denmark DEN 30
Estonia EST 8
France FRA 86
Germany GER 106
Great Britain GBR 165
Greece GRE 13
Grenada GRN 5
Hungary HUN 58
Indonesia INA 9
Iran IRI 15
Italy ITA 99
Kazakhstan KAZ 20
Kenya KEN 35
Malaysia MAS 6
Romania ROU 14
Slovenia SLO 12
South Africa RSA 9
South Korea KOR 57
Switzerland SUI 27
Thailand THA 8
Uzbekistan UZB 26
Venezuela VEN 5

Think my total is 910

I get 903.

Forgot to copy and paste Argentina ARG 7

Thanks for the heads-up Skin Rip and markr. Replacing North Korea (5) with five countries valued at '1'.

Thanks for extending the deadline! Just got back from vacation a couple days ago, and my brain still doesn't correlate an odd year with Olympics.

Will get some others to join too.

Here are my Olympic 2021 picks:
USA. 358
Japan. 159
Australia. 135
Germany. 106
Canada. 41
Cuba. 34
Kenya. 35
Romania. 14
Slovenia. 12
South Africa. 9
Hong Kong, China. 7
Montenegro. 1
Dem. Rep. of Congo. 0.5

Is the gold medal that was predicted for North Korea now predicted for a different country, thereby altering the point value of that country?

The short answer is the costs are not changing.

The "expert" source we're using had already come out with an update. I don't think it had anything to do with this - the differences don't really support that notion (see the OMP tab in the spreadsheet for the original and the update). I wasn't planning to change the costs when they make a change, but feel free to update your team based on any new info you get. The source of the costs is arbitrary. Basically, I think we're tasked with identifying bargains which is what makes this method rather different from the other one. There are other entities making predictions. I've added three ineligible "expert contestants" just for fun to see how they do with the costs assigned by the chosen "expert." They're at the bottom of the contestant table (far right, yellow stripes).