Paris 2024 Fantasy Olympics

Standings after Day 9:

1 tgordon92 501
2 Skin Rip 430
3 fbaezer 386

We're at about the halfway point in medals awarded, so there's still plenty of time for the standings to change.

Standings after Day 10:

1 tgordon92 557
2 Skin Rip 505
3 fbaezer 450

Ireland 12th in the medal table with our highest ever medal total.

<bows out of thread>

Standings after Day 11:

1 tgordon92 606
2 Skin Rip 551
3 fbaezer 482

Almost no change in the relative standings with only 13 sets of medals awarded today.

Standings after Day 12:

1 tgordon92 666
2 Skin Rip 605
3 fbaezer 534

Our relative standings still remain about the same as we reach the 2/3 point in medals awarded.

The optimal team has made a profit. It's currently at 855.

Standings after Day 13:

1 tgordon92 738
2 Skin Rip 675
3 fbaezer 604

Much like yesterday, Skin Rip started to eat into my lead during the day, only to have USA get a load of medals at Stade de France in the evening to maintain the status quo.

We're at the 3/4 point right now. In addition to the optimal team making a profit, several countries have done so already:

High-priced countries: South Korea (which is already 25 points in the black), New Zealand, Ireland, Romania, and Australia

Lower-priced countries: Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Ecuador, Greece, South Africa, Uganda, Botswana, Dominica, North Korea, Kosovo, Fiji, and Tajikistan

Not expected to medal but did: Chile, St. Lucia, Guatemala, Pakistan, Cyprus, Malaysia, Cape Verde, Zambia, and the Refugee Olympic Team.

Standings after Day 14:

1 tgordon92 828
2 Skin Rip 786
3 fbaezer 732

Shin Rip closed a bit of the gap on me. The next couple of days have a lot of US teams playing in their finals and some Uzbek boxers fighting in finals, but also a lot of Chinese boxers fighting in finals. It should be interesting.

Mid-day update for Day 15, including men's cycling madison and women's soccer/football:

1 tgordon92 857
2 Skin Rip 831
3 fbaezer 778

Evening update for Day 15, with one set of medals still to be awarded in weightlifting and gold medal contests pending in basketball, boxing (x3), taekwondo (x2) and beach volleyball.

1 tgordon92 912
2 Skin Rip 868
3 fbaezer 821

I'll be offline for the rest of today's action, but will have a final Day 15 update later tonight.

Nice - everybody is making a profit!

Standings after Day 15:

1 tgordon92 912
2 Skin Rip 868
3 fbaezer 821

There are just 13 sets of medals remaining, and in seven of those the gold vs. silver matchup is already known. I haven't actually done the math yet, but I'm pretty sure this is going to be the final order of the standings.

The USA vs. China battle for most gold medals should be interesting. The US is one gold medal behind, but has finalists in women's 76kg wrestling, women's volleyball, and women's basketball. They also are the favorite to win the women's cycling omnium. Both the US and China have medal contenders in women's +81kg weightlifting, with China the more likely to win gold.

That women's basketball final was insane. Props to France for a great gameplan that fell one point and one foot short.

Both the USA and China gave good dividends, and I thought they were overpriced.
My biggest flop was Ethiopia. But also Jamaica and Spain underperformed,

Kudos to the gold and silver medalists, And thank you for keeping this game alive.

Final Standings:

G tgordon92 973
S Skin Rip 910
B fbaezer 881


Thanks to everyone for playing and to markr for his tech support in scoring!

I'll try to do a recap of stats in the next couple of days, but if I don't, then I look forward to seeing you all in 18 months for the 2026 Winter Olympics!

Congrats all! Here is the optimal team if you're interested. The worst performance on the team was MAR which broke even.