Re: Scores for head to head events

For info and not intended to sway the conversation in any particular direction:

home/awayCompetitor lifts from the Sport ontology:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport#terms_homeCompetitor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport#terms_awayCompetitor<http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport#terms_homeCompetitor>

There’s a gist I did a while ago here:
https://gist.github.com/tfgrahame/8974800


Scoring gets hard when scores can be applied variously to events and/or competitors, we got stuck on this last time.

Tom

From: Daniel Stieglitz <dstieglitz@stainlesscode.com<mailto:dstieglitz@stainlesscode.com>>
Date: Friday, 20 November 2015 16:25
To: Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com<mailto:vtardif@google.com>>
Cc: Paul Kelly <paul@xmlteam.com<mailto:paul@xmlteam.com>>, Jonathan Balls <Jonathan.Balls@bbc.co.uk<mailto:Jonathan.Balls@bbc.co.uk>>, "public-sport-schema@w3.org<mailto:public-sport-schema@w3.org>" <public-sport-schema@w3.org<mailto:public-sport-schema@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: Scores for head to head events
Resent-From: <public-sport-schema@w3.org<mailto:public-sport-schema@w3.org>>
Resent-Date: Friday, 20 November 2015 16:26

Hi folks:

SportsEvent also supports the SportsEvent-->competitor relationship, where competitor can be SportsTeam or Person. Oddly enough this seems to be the way homeTeam and awayTeam are also mapped which seems confusing (they can be Persons?)

Perhaps homeTeam and awayTeam should be refactored out and replaced by the competitor relationship, where cardinality is enforced by subtypes (e.g., if SportsEvent is a FootballGame, competitor max cardinality is 2 and competitor types are restricted to Team).

For results I think a CompetitorResult object may be required (or CompetitorScore [subclass?]) that is then applied to the Event object.

Of course the issue of tracking how the CompetitorScore might change over time is also a consideration.

Dan

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com<mailto:vtardif@google.com>> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Paul Kelly <paul@xmlteam.com<mailto:paul@xmlteam.com>> wrote:
Also, how general do we need to be? Are we going to draw a distinction between team events, head-to-head sports (boxing, fencing) and race-type events (F1, athletics, swimming)? Or do we want a general formation for all three of those types of competition (to use the north american sense of that word :)

This is the crux of the issue. To support events with more than two competitors, we will need more than a simple homeScore/awayScore model. With the Olympics coming up again, I think we should consider supporting these events sooner rather than later.

- Vicki

Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com<mailto:vtardif@google.com>





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