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An improvement of decathlon current scoring system  

Lee, Jang-Taek (Department of Statistics, Dankook University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.21, no.6, 2010 , pp. 1031-1039 More about this Journal
Abstract
The decathlon is an athletic event consisting of ten track and field events. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged in meters, centimeters, minutes, and seconds. However, how to convert results into points is a difficult and controversial issue. We explored the distribution of decathlon results from the 1991 to 2009 using top 200 decathlons in the Olympic games and word championships. The conclusion is that the results from top level decathlon competition are normally distributed, and the current scoring system does not have the property that the performance with same difficulty should get same points. A new model for evaluating the decathlon score has been applied that display uniform characteristics over all events in order to meet the notion of allroundness. The proposed model is uniform over the events and support self-stabilization.
Keywords
Decathlon; difficulty for performance; normality; scoring model;
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