Beijing 2022 Fantasy Olympics

Congrats tgordon92 and fbaezer! See you in two years...

Congrats to markr and fbaezer. Big thanks to markr for keeping score!

See you all in July 2024! (Unless anyone wants to try this for World Athletics Championships this summer.)

We're less than six weeks out from the start of Paris 2024. Who's interested in playing fantasy olympics this time around? And do we want to keep the same format as 2022?

To keep the same format, it would be nice to have something that provides reasonable values to the teams. I've been looking for a few months, and the only one I've found is from Gracenote (May: https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2024/virtual-medal-table-forecast/). That would be fine, but they list only the top 30 which leaves a lot of medals unclaimed. We could still use it, but maybe something better (or newer from Gracenote) will come out between now and then. I'm willing to try to automate the scoring in any case.

I'm out. Our house is up for sale, and I won't have time for this.

That's understandable, markr. Anyone else interested in participating?

If there's no good source for medal forecasts for all countries, we could revert to the old format of dividing countries into four pools and picking a set number of countries from each pool.

I wouldn’t trust Gracenote, but here is a complete table:
https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/jeux-olympiques/tableau-des-medailles/

I’m in, of course,

If you don't trust Gracenote, then the data in your link is not to be trusted. It appears to have come from Gracenote - they reference Gracenote at the bottom. Your site seems to be showing more data than Gracenote shows on their site, which is why it would be the one to use.

For comparison:
https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2024/virtual-medal-table-forecast/

@markr, how tough would it be for me (a proficient but non-expert Excel user) to modify your previous spreadsheet to use this year? I guess there are two parts to my question:

(1) How tough is it to set the initial parameters (country values and picks);
(2) How tough is it to set the spreadsheet to draw medal data from an outside source. If it's complicated, I could update this manually.

I'm away from tomorrow through Friday but may have some bandwidth for setup. I'm taking off from work during the Olympics, so will have plenty of time for updating as needed then.

If any of this is too tough, we could go back to the old system of picking countries from four tiers, but I'd prefer the new system if possible.

Also, who else is interested in playing? I'm only on able2know every two years for Fantasy Olympics, so I'm not connected with anyone outside of this forum.

Count me in

I should be able to give you 1A and probably 1B.
#2 can't be done until the official site or wikipedia has posted something - need the exact URL and format, may require some fiddling around. I can try to get that working once there's data.
I'll start working on 1A.
Ditto on the every two years since I lost interest in the math/riddle forums.

@tgordon92: I sent you a message via this site. Please let me know whether or not you received it.

If you go with what we've been using lately, here are the costs for the NOCs. Budget is $833.50. Any NOC not listed costs $0.50.

I have not been following the situation with (Bela)Russian athletes, but they don't seem to appear in the medal predictions provided in the previously posted link by fbaezer, so maybe they should be excluded from this competition. If not, I (or you) will need to know what NOCs have been assigned to them.

When submitting your picks, it will make data entry easier if you list your NOCs, not the country names. Using both would be fine.

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOC_country_codes

@tgordon92: I sent another message.

I've started a new forum for this year's Fantasy Olympics: https://able2know.org/topic/586578-1