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How a larger and stricter sample changed the formulas without changing the conclusions

The Principles Behind Decathlon Scoring Tables: What Should a Scoring System Actually Measure?

A leave-one-event-out test of 17,277 complete decathlon performances

As a supplement to the Fair Decathlon Model (FDM) series, we are publishing the complete event scoring table covering the full range from 100 to 1200 points.

Choose a specific report or data pack from the Decathlon 2000 archives and explore the combined events statistics and historical data relevant to your research.

A leave-one-event-out test from 7,000 to 4,000 points

Rafał Snoch examines the five Day One events through 100-point FDM-40N cohorts, revealing how individual specialists, weak-event survivors and population patterns shape the residuals behind the scoring model.

This article asks whether the decathlon’s own performance data can provide enough information to calibrate a fair scoring system without relying primarily on elite athletes. Using 27, 741 complete decathlons—and a separate dataset excluding all …

Part 8 takes the Fair Decathlon Model into its deepest territory yet, examining B — the parameter that determines where scoring reaches zero. Using 10, 720 complete performances with totals below 7000 points, this analysis tests whether the …

After completing the zero ‐point audit in Part 8, the Fair Decathlon Model now turns to a deeper question: what should a decathlon scoring table actually measure? Part 9 explores why performances cannot be separated from the two ‐day …

A decathlon is not ten separate events. It is one competition, unfolding over two days, with one clock running from the first start to the final finish. Part 10 of the Fair Decathlon Model asks what happens when we look at the decathlon this way …

West German Olympic decathlon trials Bernhausen 1980 produced a world record of 8649 points by Guido Kratschmer, equivalent to 8667 under the 1985 scoring tables. Jürgen Hingsen finished second with 8407 and Wolfgang Muders third with 8100. …

Soviet athletes filled the first four places at the Soviet Union–USA decathlon match in Leningrad on 1–2 August 1981. Aleksandr Nevski led with 8170 points, followed by Konstantin Akhapkin and Nikolai Poptsov, while Steve Jacobs was the …

Total points based on personal bests are calculated by adding the points from a decathlete’s personal records in each event. This section lists all totals exceeding 8900 points and contains particularly notable performance data.

Shot 6.0 kg; hurdles 99 cm; discus 1.75 kg; javelin 800 g

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