I wanted to compare the olympic decathlon winners to the sum of the winners of each specialist disciplin. For example, Noah Lyles winning the 100m in 9.79s would have received 1149 points for the 2024 "team". This year was the first time where 12000 points were reached by the specialists. Reuploaded because my first visualization was… bad. I hope this one is better, but as I'm new here, I'm open for criticism or suggestions to present it better.
Posted by Complete-Macaron5433
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Data from Wikipedia, plotted with matplotlib. I hope this one is better liked than Excel/Calc.
Interesting. Could you also make 10 separate graphs for each sport with 3 lines: Decathlon overall winner performance, decathlon individual sport winner performance, actual sport winner performance?
Maybe even have error bars to show what the rest of the olympic competition did so you can see which sport the decathlon is close to olympic individual level and which they are far from.
This is really interesting. Would be wonderful if you Makena graph for each discipline over time.