kurt

okay, sorry I'm confused (as usual) but the new database is going to report the results from each comp in terms of decathalon scoring - with the winning throw being 1000 points? Or the american record being 1000 points? But - each comp will give you a cumulative overall tally of points (i.e. 6350 points)

and then the invitational rankings for the Celtic will be a cumulative average of all of our performances? so like...for example....50,800 total points earned over the season of say 8 games, divided by 8 games to get an overall decathalon average of 6350 - which then becomes our score in the invitational rankings?

Please Zartan, dreadnock brain hurts... 

can you clarify?

thanks

Just a quick question on decathalon scoring as I've only ever competed once were we used it.  If the American record is broken during a games, is the athlete awarded 1000+ points for that event and the other athletes scores are still based on the old record?  Or is he given 1000 even points, and all the other scores are then re-adjusted to reflect the new record?  I don't recall anyone fully explaining this to me.  Thanks

Kurt Pauli wrote: An example...a Games with 7 events.  Each event except the caber is scored with the American record on that date being 1000 points.  The caber is scored with the best toss of that Games being 1000 points.  The total possible points would be 7000 points.  If you scored a total of 5500 points, your NASGA score would be 5500/7000*100 = 78.57.  If over the season your NASGA scores were 78.57, 80, 70, and 82 your 'ranked' NASGA score for the year would be the average of these, which would be 77.64.

Sounds like you're on to something!

The powers that be are the organizations that run the championship games.  The normal NASGA rankings are decided by what the athletes want.