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

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

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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 …

Top Performance Pack is a focused digital report from the Decathlon 2000 Digital Store, providing detailed combined events statistics on the very best performances in a selected category. Explore top performances, best results and points, …

Athlete Career Report is a focused digital report from the Decathlon 2000 Digital Store, providing detailed combined events statistics for a selected athlete. Explore personal bests, complete career statistics and historical competition results …

Historical Year Pack is a focused digital report from the Decathlon 2000 Digital Store, providing detailed combined events results and statistics from a selected year. Explore historical year results, rankings and performances, also detailed …

Seventeen ‐year ‐old Valter Külvet won the men’s decathlon at the 1981 Estonian Championships in Viimsi on 22–23 August with 8221 points, equivalent to 8104 under the 1985 scoring tables. Tiit Pohl took silver with 7772 points and …

Siegfried Stark won European decathlon bronze in Prague 1978 and Athens 1982, as well as the European Cup Final in Dresden 1979. The East German athlete finished sixth at the Montreal 1976 Olympics and achieved his career best of 8534 points in …

Rainer Pottel won the European Cup decathlon in Birmingham 1981 with 8334 points, the world’s leading score that season. The East German also took European Cup silver in 1977 and later became Germany’s national decathlon coach.

Aleksandr Nevski represented the Soviet Union at two World Championships, finishing sixth in Helsinki 1983 and eighth in Rome 1987. He achieved his decathlon best of 8491 points at Götzis 1984 and set a heptathlon world best of 6144 points in …

Josef “Sepp” Zeilbauer won three consecutive Universiade decathlon titles in 1975, 1977 and 1979, and the Götzis Hypomeeting in 1977 and 1981. The Austrian competed at three Olympics, finishing fifth in Moscow 1980, and set a national …

Aleksandr Grebenyuk won European decathlon gold in Prague 1978 and the European Cup individual title in Villeneuve d’Ascq 1977. Representing the Soviet Union, he set his personal best and the 1977 world ‐leading score of 8400 points in …

Yuri Kutsenko won Olympic decathlon silver for the Soviet Union in Moscow 1980 and claimed the Soviet decathlon title that same year. He achieved his highest score of 8519 points in Kyiv 1984, calculated using the 1985 scoring tables and competing …