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johnq
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2004-12-20, 04:11

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Originally Posted by \/\/ickes
I'm just going to point out that with that ranking table it does not take into account that football has more entries then any other sport, thus putting it in first place.

Maybe a table that takes the median score of each position per sport, then compairs them.
I can see wanting it that way.

But it also doesn't bother me to also compare sports inclusive of player count.

We can say a person riding in the Tour de France is "tougher" than a person playing goalie in Hockey, but I also think another valid interpretation is that Hockey The Sport is "tougher" than Bicycling The Sport (assuming the numbers showed it). (Random example too, I'm not taking sides. Actually it might be the opposite! )

Damn statistics.

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