From: Sandra Loosemore <sandra@shore.net>
Subject: OBO simulation of Olympics scoring (semi-spoilers)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.skating.ice.figure
Date: 12 Feb 1998 10:05:10 -0500
Organization: Dr. Frog's Asylum for Wayward Cats

I've been running OBO simulations on the scoring from the Olympics.
Neither of the two pairs competition segments turned up any flip-flops
under OBO, but the men's short program is full of them:

* Vidrai's marks swapped Weiss & Shmerkin
* Dmitrenko's marks swapped Weiss & Vidrai (so Weiss moved 2 places ahead
  of Shmerkin, whom he'd originally been behind)
* Zag's marks swapped Pashkevitch & Tamura
* Skorniakov's marks swapped Hernits & Gheorghe
* Lee's marks put Hernits into a tie with Skorniakov
* Anthony Liu's marks added Gheorghe into the tie with Hernits & Skorniakov;
  they remained in this 3-way tie in the final results.

The input data and full results of the simulation are available on
my web site at http://www.frogsonice.com/skateweb/obo/.

-Sandra