Statmeisters in Spain, Italy show how game is played
I have stat envy. Over the past few days, I’ve been ogling the work of masters rankers and record-keepers in Spain and Italy. They join the Germans, Brits and Aussies (and the USA) as the most with-it statisticians in the masters movement. Spaniard Andres Martinez sent me two PDF files showing how that nation ranks its “hombres y mujeres.” They do it age-graded. Using the WMA tables, they’ve come up with list upon list of the best sprinters, runners, jumpers and throwers regardless of age. Here’s the men’s rankings. And here are the women’s rankings. From Italy, Diego Cacchiarelli writes to inform us of the amazing work of Werter Corbelli and Luigi Fasolato: an Italian record page that includes its own world age-group records. (But recent records are noted as 2003, rather than 2007 for some strange reason.)
Which brings us to some big news on the American front:
At the Hawaii meetings of USATF, the Masters Track & Field Committee has green-lighted a project I first mentioned a year ago — an online masters museum.
Andy Hecker, Jeff Davison, Jeff Brower, Randy Sturgeon, Dave Clingan and moi have been gathering content and permissions over the past six months to make this a reality. It’s still just a concept. No domain name has been secured. But we’ll have a budget with which to build a Web site that includes results galore from decades of USA masters meets, plus a gazillion articles and newsletters — including a treasure trove from David Pain’s collection — that detail the history of our niche sport from the late 1960s.
Stay tuned for more details. This will knock your socks off!
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The online masters museum sounds great. Good luck with it. The Wayback Machine could help with digging up old results http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Enter a URL and you can view web sites at various dates in the past. For instance http://www.usatf.org is archived back to 1997.
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