Olympic Scoring System, RC1

Ok, so after much thought and wasted time, here's a shot of the first release candidate of the ultimate Olympic Scoring system for countries.

Medals are weighted, and also countries are given a weight based on population.
For example, if a country has a weighted medal points score of 50 and that country's population is 10% of the population sum of all countries attending, then that country would have a total weighted score of 45. Or 90% of their original weighted points.

This seems fair to us since a country with a huge population has a much larger pool of potential athletes to pick from than a smaller country.

As you can see this works out to be quite fair. While the US gets a larger penalty than a smaller country, their total medal count was proportionately higher too, balancing out the penalty. China on the other hand performs well under it's expected rate for it's size.

Check it out. And any news agencies that want to use this system, it's copyrighted to us, so you'll have to get permission first, credit us, and have us on the air via satellite to comment.

Anyway, here it is, the ultimate ranking of 2006 Winter Olympic competitors.