Here's my proposal.
THE BASICS
A website is set up that provides profiles of every T&F athlete. Initially the website focuses on athletes that featured in the most recent Olympics. Over time older Olympics, World Championships, European and Commonwealth championships are added and subsequently Diamond League meets, major marathons, national championships etc. A similar half of the website is set up for World, Olympic, National and other records.
It's a monstrous amount of work but there's obviously a lot of overlap in the featured athletes so each "event or record expansion" should get easier and easier.
Each profile is not a wikipedia or IAAF style narrative profile but a year by year summary of that athlete's connections and achievements in the events covered by the website. The achievements are tracked by performances on the day - after the fact doping-disqualifications are not counted (yet). By connections I mean, their nationality, who their coach was, who their training group was etc.
DOPING
The website builds in an objective doping handicapping system. For example (and these are just illustrative, what is included in the handicapping system and the weighting they're afforded would be the most interesting part of the exercise):
- If an athlete is found guilty of doping pursuant to a failed test in 2010 that might count for purposes of the website as a 100% probability they were a doper in 2010, an 80% chance in 2009, a 30% chance in 2008 and a 10% chance in 2007. Regardless of any evidential tail in 2007-2009.
- If a coach is found guilty of facilitating doping in 2010 that means athletes for whom he was the primary coach, who weren't themselves caught doping, might be deemed to have a 30% chance of doping in 2010, a 20% chance in 2009 and a 10% chance in 2008 (assuming the coaching relationship was in place in those years).
- If a country is found guilty of facilitating doping in a particular sport in 2010 that means athletes of that country, who weren't themselves caught doping, might be deemed to have a 30% chance of doping in 2010, a 20% chance in 2009 and a 10% chance in 2008.
etc. etc.
Of course the website could also be clear on what it did not factor in which might include unsubstantiated rumors and performances that are suspicious solely due to their exceptionality.
THE INTERFACE
Once all the background work is done the result could be a very clean interface where a fan could browse to any event or record they were interested in and immediately see the initial results with the athletes shaded to reflect their "suspiciousness score" at that time in their career. They could then choose to exclude, for example, all athletes with a score at that time in excess of 50% or 20% and the result would automatically adjust to exclude athletes outside of their defined threshold and promote athletes within it. The current "official" results could easily be overlaid.
Thoughts?