If Olympic medals represented points - How many ?

[uk_vette]

Hi All,

Olympics.

There are the three medals available

Gold
Silver
Bronze

If you were to "attach" points to them, what would they be for each medal?

For example

Gold = 6
Silver = 3
Bronze = 1

How much better is a "gold" than a "silver" ?
How much better is a silver than the lowly bronze?

Lets have some time wasting, and lets see how each of us values a gold, compared to the others?

Maybe a gold is 10 ?
Silver 6
Bronze 2 ?

Over to the masses,

vette

[goldblum]

Am I missing something here?


'blum

[Papa Hotel]

I liked the old F1 scoring system; 10, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1.

I reckon 10, 6, 4 would be a good split of the points. Or 5, 3, 2.

[uk_vette]

10
4
2


Gold = sponsorship deals, fame and fortune
Silver = opinion asked on BBC One Show
Bronze? = D'you want fries with that?

vette

[retrobob]

uk_vette said:

Gold = sponsorship deals, fame and fortune
Silver = opinion asked on BBC One Show
Bronze? = D'you want fries with that?

vette

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[schmalex]

IMO, it goes:

Gold: 10 points
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Everything else: 0 points

Silvers and Bronzes are all well and good, but all they represent is first and second of the losers. It may sound harsh, but winning is the only thing.

[0000]

Odd concept. They're not quantitative.

What if someone wins the 100m by 0.1s and the next games someone wins by 0.4s?

[0a]

To be complete you need to adjust across sport, eg:

Gold football < Silver 100m

[Tiggsy]

If the medals were animals what would they be?


If this thread made any sense would it be worth more points??

[GBDG]

Gold = 79
Silver = 47
Bronze = 29