Wikidata:WikiProject Olympics/Competition formats

This is a summary of competition formats found at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Data items and properties will need to be specified for all the below data points in order to centralise Olympic result data at Wikidata.

Overview

Benefits

The benefits of storing Olympic data at Wikidata level include access to this data for all languages, preventing duplicate effort of data input across languages, and improve the quality of the data as corrections and updates can be applied in one location. For Wikipedia, storing this data at Wikidata will remove the effort required in duplicating data across pages (such as listing a medal-winning athlete's performance on an event page, a sport page, and a national page).

Further querying could automatically generate Games-level data including lists of participating nations and athletes, games calendars, lists of records set, medal tables, and list of sports competed

Suggestions

• Suggest each round is stored at its own data item
• Perhaps store finals data as a separate round item: so round items store all participant, ranking and performance data, with only medalist data stored at main item to avoid duplication of performance and ranking data
• Separate data items required for each match for competitions with group and knockout match formats
• If all events/stages/matches of a sport have dates and times applied in each item, these can be used to generate competition schedules

Questions

• How to link a performance to a record set (e.g. world/continental/national)?
• How to link qualification for next stage outcome to a performance? (will need to separately indicate qualified by position and qualified by performance)
• How to store lane data for rounds? (e.g. swimming, sprinting)
• How to store non-ranking outcomes? (e.g. did not finish, did not start, disqualified)
• How to store reason for disqualification? (e.g. doping, false start, lane infringement, impeding of opponent, relay changeover failure)
• How to store data on qualified but withdrew from next round? (e.g. Jérémy Stravius in en:Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle)
• How to define a knockout stage? (NB: each stage up to last 64 has a relevant data item, e.g. last 64 (Q51591612))
• How to add details on match sections? (e.g. quarter scores in water polo)
• How to add details on tournament seeding? (e.g. Water polo)
• How to store data on archery 10s and Xs?
• How to store data on the winner of a match tiebreak? (e.g. in archery knockout stages)
• How to store wind speed data for performances? (e.g. at race level for sprints, at performance level of long and triple jump)
• How to store reaction times? (e.g. for 100 metres sprint)
• How to store data on competition rounds of progressive difficulty? (e.g. high jump and pole vault)
• How to store data on heat/group competed in? (e.g. swimming heats, shot put qualifying)
• How to store data on tournament seeding? (e.g. badminton)

Aquatics

Diving

1. Individual events consisting of a preliminary, semi-final and final stages. Each stage has five (women) or six (men) performances, each given a points score between 0-100 by panel of judges. Ranking decided at the end of each round by a combined points total (could use proposed "calculated property type", but will have to be manual input for the moment).
2. Duo team event consisting of a straight final with same format as above

Swimming

1. Individual events consisting of heats, semi-final and final stages. Top 16 qualify by time in heats stage. Top eight qualify by time in semifinals. Maximum of eight competitors per heat, each swimmer has a lane. Some events consist of heats and final stages only, with top eight by time in heats qualifying for final.
2. Four-person relay team events with same format as above. Performance data recorded at both individual and team level. Ranked by team result which (if available) is combination of individual times (could use proposed "calculated property type", but will have to be manual input for the moment).

Synchronised swimming

1. Duo team event consisting of a preliminary and final stage. Each round consists of a technical and free performance, given a points score between 0-100. Ranking decided at the end of each round by a combined points total (could use proposed "calculated property type", but will have to be manual input for the moment). Top twelve teams progress from preliminary to final.
2. 8-woman team event with same format as above except only final round is held

Water polo

• Separate men's and women's tournaments consisting of group stage, then knockout format of quarter-finals, semi-finals, final, plus bronze medal match, 5th place match, and 7th place match. Top four teams in each group qualify for quarter-finals.

• Match data include: date, time, participating teams, participants, venue, attendance, final score, scores by match section score, goal scorers
  • Match sections include: 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter, 4th quarter, overtime, penalty shoot-out

• Group stage data include: Participating team, ranking, matches played, matches won, matches drawn, matches lost, goals for, goals against, goal difference, points, qualification status

• Knockout stage data include: knockout round,
  • Knockout rounds include: quarter-finals, semi-finals, final, bronze medal match, 5th-8th semi-final, fifth place match, seventh place match

• Tournament level data include: participating teams, participants (roster), initial tournament seeding of teams (numbered pots), medalists (teams and players), most valuable player, all-star team, top goal scorers, top goal keepers (saves/shots percentage)

Archery

1. Separate men's and women's individual tournaments consisting of a ranking round to decide seeding into a single knockout tournament of 64, plus a bronze medal match.
   1. Ranking round consists each athlete shooting 72 arrows. Data includes rank, total score, total 10-point shots, total X-shots (inner ring 10)
   2. Knockout rounds consist of up to five sets of 3 arrows. Winner is the first to three sets. If drawn at the end of fifth set, a tie break shot is taken. (Suggest using seed numbers as a match identifier). Data includes: round of tournament, set points total, each participant's points total per set, winner of tiebreak.

Athletics

1. Individual track and road races held separately for men and women, consisting of up to four rounds (qualifiers, heats, semi-finals, final).
   1. General data include rank, heat, time, qualification status (by performance or by place), DNS/DNF/DQ outcome data. Superlative performances may require further record data. For 100 metres and 200 metres, wind-speed of race is required, with performances in wind speed conditions of over +2.0 m/s not eligible for record purposes. For races of 400 metres or below, data on lane and reaction time is required.
2. Team relay track races based on same rules as above. Lane data required for 4 x 100 metres only.
3. Individual horizontal jumps and throws held separately for men and women, consisting of qualifying round and a final. Successful attempts stored in metres. Attempts may be scratched (x) or forfeited (-). Superlative performances may require record data. For horizontal jumps, each attempt requires wind speed data, with jumps in wind speed conditions of over +2.0 m/s not eligible for record purposes.
   1. Qualifying round features three attempts per athlete and in contested in A and B groups. Any performer achieving over the qualifying standard will progress by performance. Best 12 performers progress by placing regardless of performance. Data include rank, group, 1st/2nd/3rd series distances (in metres), best result (in metres) or NM/DNS/DQ outcome, qualification status (by performance or by place)
   2. Final round features three attempts for every finalist, with the top eight performers at that point taking an additional 3 attempts. Winner is best single performance with next-best performance used in event of a tie. Data include rank, 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/6th series attempts, best result (in metres) or NM/DNS/DQ outcome
4. Individual vertical jumps held separately for men and women, consisting of qualifying round and a final. Heights set for all athletes in the field, who may be successful (o), unsuccessful (x) or passed (-). Athletes have three attempts at each height Superlative performances may require record data. (Suggest storing data on each height set as a numbered round with the set height denoted).
   1. Qualifying round contested in A and B groups. Any performer achieving over the qualifying standard will progress by performance. Best 12 performers progress by placing regardless of performance. Data include rank, group, height attempted (variable), 1st/2nd/3rd series jumps at a height, best result (in metres) or NM/DNS/DQ outcome, qualification status (by performance or by place).
   2. Final round using same format as above
5. Individual combined events (decathlon and heptathlon) held separately for men and women, consisting of a combination of event performances. Rules as per above, with three attempts only in throws and horizontal jumps and single races per distance. Rank and points scores also assigned for each event based on performance and winner decided by overall points total. Heat and group data required for each event.

Badminton

1. Singles tournaments held separately for men and women consisting of a group stage, leading to a knockout tournament from round of 16, plus a bronze medal match. Each match is the best of 3 sets, the winner being the first to win two sets. Data for group stages include: group letter, games played, games won, games lost, set won, sets lost, points, qualification status. Data for matches include: date/time, final scores of set 1/2/3. Tournament level data includes seeding.
2. Men's, women's and mixed doubles tournaments with same format as above, except kockout tournament starts at quarter-finals stage.

Basketball

Team tournaments held separately for men and women consisting of a group stage, leading to a knockout tournament from round of 16, plus a bronze medal match.

• Match data include: date, time, participating teams, participants, venue, attendance, final score, scores by quarter, point scorers, referees (additional match data is also gathered, but not central to tournament outcome)
• Group stage data include: Participating team, ranking, matches played, matches won, matches lost, points for, points against, points difference, points, qualification status

Boxing

Individual knockout elimination tournaments up to round of 32, covering 10 men's and 3 women's weight classes, plus bronze medal matches. Each match has a points score outcome, or a Knockout or Technical Knockout outcome in favour of the winner.

Canoeing

1. Individual and team slalom canoeing events contested separately for men and women consisting of a preliminary, semi-final and final. Data for each round include rank, time, penalties, order, and qualification status. The preliminary round features two rides for each participant, with ranking being on the best ride.
2. Individual and team sprint events contested separately for men and women consisting of heats, semi-finals and A and B finals. Data for each race include rank, time, and qualification status - participants may progress directly to the final in the heats stage.

Cycling

To do

Equestrian

Both rider and horse data required

1. Individual dressage consisting of three progressive rounds: Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special, Grand Prix Freestyle. Each round has a rank, score and qualification status
2. Team dressage in same format as above, but scores are combined individual and team averages, and only Grand Prix and Special stages contested.
3. Individual eventing consisting of four progressive rounds: dressage, cross country, jumping qualification, final jumping. Each round has a rank, score and qualification status, plus total scores.
4. Team eventing in same format as above, but scores of best three individual riders are combined for team score and only one jumping round contested
5. Individual jumping events consisting of five rounds of jumping. Data for match includes rank, jump penalty score, time penalty score, previous round penalty totals, and a combined round penalty score. Further jump-off rounds may occur for tied medal placings, with data including penalty score and time.
6. Team jumping events in same format as above, but penalty scores of best three individual riders are combined for team score and only two rounds contested.