if you'll live with terms I may have invented, count.
The count for overall medals obviously matters, but most countries have a set of medals they really care about and evaluate their results in those events more highly. I don't mean to downgrade our athletes who participate in sports like badminton, table tennis, archery and others; but a victory in the 100 meter dash is a bigger deal than a medal in what most Americans consider minor niche sports. For me how well we did in T&F, swimming, and most team sports and the medal counts in these sports define our success.
The second, related measure is how well we performed in the Olympics relative to expectations. For instance, our talent level going into the Olympics for the men's 10K may have indicated we had little realistic chance of winning a medal; so being shut out doesn't disappoint. Whereas in some races we had legitimate chances and may not have have reached that level. In one sense we're looking at the expected medal counts in events versus the actual.
However, not all medal achievements are equal. Compare the bronzes won by Molly Seidel and the USWNT in soccer. Or consider the feel-good aspect of Mackayla Skinner's silver medal after being left out of the vault competition by rules, flying home, and returning after Simone Byles' withdrawal. Or consider the silver won by Rai Benjamin in 400 meter hurdles when he broke the world record and finished second in an epic race.
Currently, team sport counts as 1 medal, if you counted all players on the team that received a medal, I would guess we would increase our lead
Basketball
Volleyball
Water polo
Baseball
Soccer
Gymnastics
Fencing
Swimming and track relays (do athletes who help in qualifying get a medal too?)
Other countries would have
team handball
field hockey
synchronized swimming
doubles in ping pong and badminton would be 2
etc
And they showed end of the bike gold. I actually watched that race today - crazy sport.
Anyway, I am taking credit for the reverse jinx (we also won a canoeing gold) that gave us the total medal lead.
Still would like to see the USA to do better in those sports
It also pisses me off that in the final event, last 40 laps or so it looked like the dutch rider took out the 2nd place Japan on purpose
Similar thing had also happened to the American Velente
which system would you come up with? I realize that for many, it's only about the golds, but silver and bronze should mean something as well. I just wondered if anyone had ever come up with an agreed-upon point system. What about one of these formulas?
Gold - 10
Silver - 5
Bronze - 2
OR
Gold - 10
Silver - 4
Bronze - 1
Back to your point. It's a great look for ND and the Paris Olympics are only three years away, so maybe many of these same ND athletes will be back (I doubt it for the med school fencers). I am hoping maybe Nuguse can try again and that other ND athletes will be ready to in three years for the Olympic trials.
I agreed with myself that it worked.
feel that gold medal count is the most important count.
Your first proposal is equal to 4:2:0.8, so pretty close to the second one above.
between gold and bronze.