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Rating The Best Woman In Each Sport Part 2
A number ranking for each "sport" please.
Basketball Chess Pool Pole Vault Mile Run 150 Mile Run |
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Re: Rating The Best Woman In Each Sport Part 2
Basketball: 25,000
I don't think there's a woman in the world good enough to play D-II basketball, and a lot of good male high schoolers are better now than any woman that's ever played. Add in all the former college players who could school the women and I think 25,000 becomes conservative. Chess: 200 There's nothing intrinsic about Chess that makes it that men can do something women can't, but the people who dedicate their lives to it tend to be male as do all the truly elite. Pool: 300 Don't know much about this one, so this is more of a guess. Since it involves coordination, I think the men still have a slight edge, but I don't see any reason why the top women couldn't be at least competitive with the men. Pole Vault: 800 Since it's based mainly on physical skill, the women can't really be competitive with the men. However, so few men worldwide have the basic form down that there probably aren't enough of them to keep a woman outside 1000. Mile run: 3000 We've already detailed in the other thread how poorly women compare in the marathon. A mile run's so universal that outside of track athletes, you'll have a lot of athletes from other sports that will be able to beat the women as well. 150 Mile run: 250 Running with this sort of endurance is again such a specific skill that not a lot of women have mastered it. |
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Re: Rating The Best Woman In Each Sport Part 2
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150 Mile run: 250 Running with this sort of endurance is again such a specific skill that not a lot of women have mastered it. [/ QUOTE ] I meant to say that not a lot of men had mastered it. After reading some responses here, I see that 250's still too high, but really don't you think there are some men who've never run this far, but could do adequately enough to finish within three hours of the world record holder? I bet there are some marathon runners out there that do 50 and 60 miles road work in a day that with maybe a month of training could run 150 miles faster than a woman could. Maybe even without training if they just kept pace with one of the other racers and did it the day they had planned to run a marathon or something. |
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Re: Rating The Best Woman In Each Sport Part 2
No clue, but here's my guesses.
Basketball - 1million Chess - 100 Pool - 10k Pole Vault - 10k Mile Run - 10k 150 Mile Run - 1k |
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Re: Rating The Best Woman In Each Sport Part 2
Basketball - >> 1 million. I wouldnt be suprised if a team of 2+2ers could take out a WNBA team
Chess - No real previous knowledge but I would guess there is a woman in the top 100. Pool - The differences in talent among top pool players is probably pretty small. 200 Pole Vault - 2000 Mile Run - 50000 150 Mile Run - I read or saw somewhere that women potentially could have more endurance over extremely long distances, but have not heard anything else about it. I think this is due to their higher body fat percentage. This one could be alot lower than people think. 500 who knows could be 1 |
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chess - 16 Judith Polgar was 8th int he rankings in 2005 and is 16th today
Dont know about the others and dont want to guess. |
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Re: Rating The Best Woman In Each Sport Part 2
For the 150 mile run, it's hard to get an exact number but it may be 1 and it's certainly single digits.
[ QUOTE ] Pam Reed is the two-time reigning champion of Badwater, the 135-mile race from California’s Death Valley to Mount Whitney that is considered the world’s toughest running event, and the first person – male or female – to run 300 miles straight without sleep. She is also American women’s record-holder in the 24-hour run (138.94 miles). Link [/ QUOTE ] |
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run 300 miles straight without sleep. [/ QUOTE ] that's sick. |
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[ QUOTE ] run 300 miles straight without sleep. [/ QUOTE ] that's sick. [/ QUOTE ] That's irrelevant. Regarding her being #1 at 150 miles, not even close. From Wiki Current course records are 24 hours 36 minutes 08 seconds (men), set by Scott Jurek, and 27 hours 56 minutes 47 seconds (women), set by Pam Reed. Not sure what #2-10 did it in but I'd wager they were not 3 [censored] hours slowers. J |
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Re: Rating The Best Woman In Each Sport Part 2
Basketball is a tricky one. Strictly speaking, you could say that some woman like Jamila Wideman is among the best ball-handlers in the world, and could VERY well play Div.I basketball as a point guard, albeit not anywhere close to the best point guard in the country and maybe not even a starter, but definitely better than some of the worst Div. I men's basketball players in the country. She probably wouldn't be able to play dynamite defense against quicker/bigger men, but offensively she should be adequate as a pure point guard. This would fit the description of a better player than at least 3 players that get time on my alma mater's current basketball team (University of Oklahoma), which is downright terrible this year. So, where does this mean she ranks? Not well at all, but CERTAINLY not in the 1 mil. range as one poster above suggested. My best guess? 10,000
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