That’s precisely why we have sports separated by sex now though - because otherwise it’s all men up the top and all the women down the bottom.
Would you be ok with, for example, mixed sex boxing or mma?
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independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
categorizing sports between women and men separately always seemed weird to me. Why is it not a global ranking? A global ELO system that makes sure every athlete fights other athletes in the same ELO range, doesn’t matter man woman because it’s based on performance/skill instead.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Men would still on average out perform women in most categories, making it very difficult for women to get to the top of the chart. High ELOs would almost exclussively be men and thats where the media focus and attention would be on, drowing out some of the top women atheletes in lower ELOs. In a system where the highest ELO wins a medal or something i think it would be less fair than having gendered ELOs. Something like amateur or beer league sports might benefit more from genderless ELO but i think it would be controversial for pro athletes.