Dude you need to do this for every event. Someone needs to crowdfund this effort.
Dude you need to do this for every event. Someone needs to crowdfund this effort.
Naaaahhhh
Best way would be to calculate some kind of "superscore" based on a combination of available track times, adjusted for altitude, and tracking each person individually. Punish schools for drop out and injuries accordingly.
For example: runner A is a 2:10 girl but next year runs a 2:09 AND a 4:16 (1500). She has obviously switched events and "improved" in the 1500m greatly. Basing this on 800m score is misleading.
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Just use IAAF table to assign the highest score, regardless of event, to each distance runner in the country. The change in that score year over year gives best improvement. Mandatory to track change in each individual's score. Otherwise just a big recruiting class will mess everything up.
Is this per runner, or for the team overall?
In other words, could it be a different set of athletes in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017?
A three second improvement at Stanford who start with some of the best recruits is not equivalent to a three second improvement for most programs.
Fortunately you only select the top programs so this should be minimal, but noise like that is tough to avoid
Some degree of Log scale could make it close
Any list that has Auburn as the best for distance running is wrong. That poor program has been run into the ground.
NUR? B8?
American men regularly now run sub 13 5k and sun 27 10k but marathons stuck at 2:07. What gives?
Gjert did it again - produces another Diamond League champ. Nordas over Lobalu and Grijalva 7:33.49
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Nordas running 3:34 with one shoe is proof that supershoes don’t work