Breaking News: Road Racing taken down a peg? IAAF scoring tables updated?

Was Gidey the straw that broke the camel's back? She really broke the old scoring tables.

The shoes have changed what’s considered fast now.

Yeah, a lot of people saw this coming, myself not included. On the mens side the point reduction is about what I expected though. Kipchoge's WR is rated at about as high as all the other distance WRs from 1500-10000. And Kiplimo's WR at 1288 makes sense. Some people were suggesting that it should be as low as 1270, but I disagreed. 1288 is respectable.

What I wasnt ready for was Gidey's records being docked 45 points. That is a huuuuge difference.

It's also interesting that none of the events on the track have been impacted. Not even the 10000m has seen a point reduction.

The saddest thing is I no longer get to troll by saying that Kiplimo's HM is equivalent to a 3:26.26. That would make people so mad. Well, it was nice while it lasted.

Kiplimo's HM is now only equivalent to a 3:27.01 according to the updated scores.

Lmao tough day for you OozmaKappa. After you spent the last few weeks ranting on literally every thread about how great Kiplimo is by using the IAAF tables.

Anyway, these numbers look pretty fair to me. Kiplimo will run sub 57 at some point with the right pacing and then the HM will be on par with some of the other records. Gideys drop was massive and pretty surprising. Her old ones were obviously inflated but I didnt expect it to get dropped so far.

I think the reason Gidey's records were docked 45 points was mainly because of the fact she was paced from beginning to end by male runners, and of course the shoes as well.

She still has her 10000m record which is rated at 1303 pts tho.

To people who thought supershoes skewed the scoring system in favor of road racing, is this adjustment enough?

OozmaKappa wrote:

To people who thought supershoes skewed the scoring system in favor of road racing, is this adjustment enough?

Idk, the scoring tables are bad and biased against competetive disciplines either way. 100, 800m, 1500m etc get very unfavourable conversions compared to many jumps and throws.