Re: 2014 Sports Proposal - V3

Disciplines are a way to say:

Sport Category / Sub-Category / Style / Etc.

Also as part of the Proposal, please add a better description to SportsTeam
instead of just, "Organization: Sports team".
It should be defined as saying "A SportsTeam consists of 2 or more persons
playing together as a competitive team in a sport", or something similar.



On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:15 AM, <trond.huso@ntb.no> wrote:

>  Dear List,
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> This is an "old" thread, but I am adding some information.
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> Discipline:
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> If you go to the website of the International Ski Federation (
> http://www.fis-ski.com/), you will see that they are defining
> cross-country, ski jumping, Nordic Combined, Alpine skiing, Freestyle
> skiing and Snowboard as disciplines.
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> So according to them, the sport is skiing, and the disciplines are the
> different ... disciplines.
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> Same goes with swimming, where breast stroke would be a discipline.
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> Olympic sports:
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> Remember that there are differences when it comes to the Olympic Games. A
> sport can be defined as a Olympic Sport, but not be on the Olympic Program.
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> An example:
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> Chess is defined as an Olympic Sport (http://www.olympic.org/chess), but
> you will not (at least not at the moment) see any chess competitions in
> neither Olympic Summer Games nor Olympic Winter Games.
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> Since I am in contact with the IOC from time to time, I have asked them of
> a list of sports currently defined as Olympic Sports and which one of these
> are on the Program.
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> Team sport:
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> There will always be a team of people around one or more athletes, but I
> believe most people would define soccer, baseball, rugby and so on as team
> sports.
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> However: When it comes to modeling some sports in computer systems, it is
> normal to define tennis as a team sport because you have the "home" and
> "away" construction. Even though most people would consider tennis as a
> single sport (except when it comes to doubles...) I am therefor in favor of
> awayCompetitor rather than homeTeam - even though home/awayTeam is more
> common - and shorter.
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> Home team /away team: When a team is playing on their home turf / venue,
> they are the home team. However there are tournaments, like the just
> recently finished World Cup, where one team is defined Home Team and the
> other is defined Away team. The team starting the game/match/event - in
> soccer the home team has the kick off in the first period -  is defined as
> Home Team.
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> I think a good definition of a home team is the team starting the event.
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> Professional Sports: Wikipedia has a quite good definition on professional
> sports: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_sports - in short:
> Professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, are sports in which
> athletes receive payment for their performance.
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> Definitions to other professional sports/leagues and so on, are linked in
> the article.
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> One thing I think is important to have in mind: Even though you can model
> sports, information about sport/sport event/sport organization and so on
> with generic terms. I think it would be a good idea to come to a mutual
> ground on what is a default sport scheme, then you will have differences.
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> Like the example Tom brought up with Rugby and the leagues. I am not sure
> if that qualifies as disciplines, but rather league types? Or? What does
> the Rugby Union / IRB say?
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> Best
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> Trond Husø
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> Norsk Telegrambyrå (NTB)
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