Scoring System Explained

For Fantasy Summer Olympics, we conduct a 29 round draft in which all players draft one country for each of the 29 sports.

Major Sports
The following major sports are allotted 350 fantasy points each:

Athletics
Swimming

200 total points for gold medals, 100 for silver, 50 for bronze. These points are divided by the number of medals in the sport, so an athletics gold medal is worth 4.3 points since there are 47 awarded.  A swimming gold medal is worth 5.9 points since there are 34 awarded.  These sports were doubled in value because of the sheer number of medals awarded.

Mid-Major Sports
The following mid-major sports are worth a total of 175 points each:

Basketball
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics
Judo
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Tennis
Volleyball
Weightlifting
Wrestling

100 points for gold medals, 50 for silver and 25 for bronze. Same as before, only we're cutting the point values in half since fewer medals are awarded.  This list comprises every remaining sport that awards at least 10 medals, with the additions of basketball, football, tennis, and volleyball.

At 50 points each, the two basketball and the two football gold medals will be the most valuable in our competition.  We think this is fitting since these medals reflect the ongoing efforts of large teams of  athletes in a tournament that spans the entire Olympiad.  I, for one, could not have told anyone on the 2008 USA women's soccer team that her medal was worth less than 50 points.  Because I wouldn't be able to speak.

Minor Sports
The following minor sports are worth a total of 87.5 points each:

Archery
Badminton
Diving
Equestrian
Field hockey
Handball
Modern pentathlon
Synchronized swimming
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Triathlon
Water polo

50 points for gold medals, 25 for silver and 12.5 for bronze. Same as before, only we're cutting the point values in half again.  All of these sports award less than ten medals, and certain of them (not naming names, field hockey) aren't real sports.

This doesn't mean these medals are unimportant.  Anyone who even casually followed the standings in the first Fantasy Olympiad knows that depth is the key to victory.  Depth, and being kind of a dick.