I obviously don't have enough to do this morning. I did an analysis of masters world records broken in 2008 and 2009. They are as follows:
2008 Short Course Men 46 Women 51
Long Course Men 79 Women 70
2009 Short Course Men 56 Women 69
Long Course Men 80 Women 64
Now we just have to wait for FINA to post the 2010 records to possibly see the impact of suits and gender. I know there are some flaws to these statistics. E.g. the FINA year ends on 10/31 and I didn't bother to do the records by actual date set, but I figured it would even out over the course of three years and we'd have to wait till late 2011 to see the records set after Nov. 1 this year. I originally thought there would be more records set in 2008 because there was a LC world championships, but this didn't seem to be the case.
Jim, you seem a bit bored these days. Perhaps you could massage these statistics to make them more accurate.
Rich
I obviously don't have enough to do this morning. I did an analysis of masters world records broken in 2008 and 2009. They are as follows:
2008 Short Course Men 46 Women 51
Long Course Men 79 Women 70
2009 Short Course Men 56 Women 69
Long Course Men 80 Women 64
Now we just have to wait for FINA to post the 2010 records to possibly see the impact of suits and gender. I know there are some flaws to these statistics. E.g. the FINA year ends on 10/31 and I didn't bother to do the records by actual date set, but I figured it would even out over the course of three years and we'd have to wait till late 2011 to see the records set after Nov. 1 this year. I originally thought there would be more records set in 2008 because there was a LC world championships, but this didn't seem to be the case.
Jim, you seem a bit bored these days. Perhaps you could massage these statistics to make them more accurate.
Rich
