Greetings Crossfitters,
Below is a dashboard and analysis tool we created to take a look at what the 2011 Crossfit Games Regional competition would have been like, had it not mattered which region the athletes actually competed in. In other sports, divisions matter, a ton, mainly beacause teams play against each other which directly affects the outcome. This is how you can have a team with a better wins-loss record than another team in a different division not make it to the playoffs because they themselves aren’t in first place in their own division. (eg. Patriots don’t make the playoffs w/ a 12-4 record but the Chargers do w/ an 8-8 record)
In Crossfit, who you compete against has little to do with how the individual athletes perform. Now we admit, that the coditions in which the athletes compete vary, outdoors vs. indoors, grass vs. rubber mat, etc. which do have a difference however the variances are slight.
First we have the top athletes and teams from around the world ranked regardless of which division they competed in.
The next analysis we have here shows the breakdown of the top 50 athletes and teams from the above analysis broken down by region. This tells us, had it not mattered which division athletes competed in, these would be the number of athletes and teams that should have made it to the 2011 Crossfit Games.
