I stumbled across a sports article from a US publication and thought it interesting that it showed the USA leading the medals table.
Instead of the regular table that gives weight to Gold, silver and bronze, they just see total medals.
I sorta like it. Celebrating all medal winners equally is nice. It feels a little like fudging the numbers, though.
They also send the most athletes.
Aren’t tables typically sorted by the total column? Plus on the US one you can sort by any column, unlike the other one.
yeah I mean except for some exceptions where the gold blows everyone out of the water so often the difference between the medal holders is basically luck.
Total medals and total golds are both bad sorting measures. It should be a simple point system, gold > silver > bronze. Maybe 4/2/1?
I was wondering what the context for this Chaser article was.
