Stronglifts Olympics 2009: Final results.

[atypical1]

@ Dada and summerss - It's still early. The competition just started so there's plenty of room for us to add some KG onto our scores. We just need to make our individual goals higher than their team!

@nilan666- I noticed that too and tried to do the math to make it equal 206 and couldn't. It's around 128 but the cell is locked so I can't see what was done.

james

[Mouse]

well for some reason i see that the squat average for USA is 206.92kg when none of the individual participants have a 200kg+ squat. Closest is lifting nerd at 193kg....how is this occurring?

It's to do with the Wilks calculations.

Mjh will have to explain - it's all too much for my brain

[Anand]

here some info on wilks calculation
http://www.wimwam.nl/wilkscalculator.htm

also found a site which would give the wilks total once you enter your weight and total lifts
http://www.wimwam.nl/wilkscalculator.htm

[Anand]

here some info on wilks calculation
http://www.wimwam.nl/wilkscalculator.htm

oops posted the same link twice, this is the right one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilks_Coefficient

[mjh]

thanks guys, it was late when I last updated it, and I guess I would have been better off just going to bed. I'll have a look at it later and see what's going on. Sorry about the confusion.

[KingCaractacus]

1st member of team africa...

KC ■ 102kg ■ (120kg + 90kg + 140kg) ■ 350kg

[mjh]

ok updated, and hopefully accurately this time. Sorry for the numerous errors, I often do this after a long night studying, which clearly is not the best idea.

summerss: don't know how that happened. At first I suspected mouse of editing your update (he's proven himself a sneaky bugger already ), but it seems I was just sub-literate when I updated the spreadsheet. I did notice you'd made some amazing gains!

the USA squat average: not sure what happened here. When I checked the cell the equation seemed OK. I deleted it and re-entered it and it worked.

This is the wilks calculator I've been using: http://tsampa.org/training/scripts/relative_strength/

Now onto an important point. As people have mentioned, the Aussies have only two members, and now we have an African team with one member, and I don't see it growing much. Whether this is an advantage or not, I'm not sure, but in any case it makes it a little less interesting as far as team averages go.

So, as much as it pains me as a proud kiwi to suggest this, perhaps we should have a "tri-nations' team consisting of AUS, NZ, and South Africa (name comes from the yearly rugby tournament between the three countries). It could also be called SANZA, similar to the rugby association. Please share your thoughts on this idea.

[dylanamus]

I know there are a number of other Australians on here. Perhaps if teams faced disqualification if they couldn't get a certain minimum of participants, more people would join in and averages would be fairer. But like mjh said, this will probably eliminate Africa and maybe some other nations. :/ It's tricky.

[mjh]

I wasn't being serious when I said I'd rather not merge NZ with SA and AUS. I actually think it's quite a good solution. Asia and Europe are also multi-national teams after all.

[dylanamus]

Well I guess it's up to you, mr mod. You have the authoritoy. I don't mind being in the Tri-Nation team!

[KingCaractacus]

i don't mind either.

they say if you can't beat them, join them
welcome to the tri-nations team, nz'ers and aussies

[Mouse]

summerss: don't know how that happened. At first I suspected mouse of editing your update (he's proven himself a sneaky bugger already )

Ah a slurr in public on my character.
You sir, I challenge you to a duel, at dawn, pistols............

[Nilan666]

How about
USA+Can= Team 1......10 members
UK+EU=Team 2..........9 members
Aus+NZ=Team 3.........7 members
Asia+Africa=Team 4....6 members

That way we have a continent wise split up except for Asia and Africa which should be clubbed together due to so few members in it.

And maybe mouse and mjh should both handle the spreadsheet given its complexity?

[Mouse]

Mouse, I think you'll also propose that all the commonwealth nations should be part of UK.

What a good idea.


Nilan - thanks for the vote of confidence - but all this Wilks stuff is beyond me!
I think Guru is hoping to get involved with this alongside mjh.

[guru]

summerss: don't know how that happened. At first I suspected mouse of editing your update (he's proven himself a sneaky bugger already )

Ah a slurr in public on my character.
You sir, I challenge you to a duel, at dawn, pistols............

Have they invented pistols with range from UK to NZ & vice versa?