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The standings are not the result

In a single event the order is the result. In a combined event it is a running total with events still to be scored, and those events are not worth the same to everyone in the field. One athlete has the discus and the pole vault still in hand. Another has already spent their best three disciplines by lunchtime on day one.

So a sprinter can lead after four events and finish fourth, and a thrower can end day one two hundred points down and win. Both are ordinary combined events outcomes, and neither is visible on a scoreboard that adds up only what has already happened. The useful question during a competition is not who leads. It is who is on course.

What the forecast does

It answers that question with the only evidence there is: each athlete's own record. Events already contested count exactly as they were scored. Events still to come are filled in from that athlete's personal best in each of them. Add the two together and every athlete has a projected final score, and the field can be ranked by it.

The projection is recomputed every time a real result lands, so it tightens as the competition proceeds. Early on it is mostly personal bests. By the last event almost nothing is left to estimate, and the question turns into an exact one: this athlete needs 4:31.2 to stay in front.

Standings after 4 events

1Sprint specialist3512
2All-rounder3401
3Thrower3268

Forecast after 4 events

1Thrower8240
2All-rounder8165
3Sprint specialist8090

An illustration, not a competition. The two columns hold the same four scored events. The right-hand one also holds the six that are still to come, valued at what each athlete has done before, which is why the order is different and why the third-placed athlete is the one to watch.

A forecast is an estimate and is meant to be read as one. Athletes beat their bests and miss them, and competitions contradict the projection regularly. That is not a fault in the number, it is the use of it: the projection is the line a result has to cross to count as a surprise.

Before the first event

The projection has a starting state, and it is the fullest one it will ever have. A competition appears on the hub when its start list is loaded, a little before the first event. Nothing has been contested yet, so every event in the programme is still to come and every one of them is filled from that athlete's personal best. The forecast at that moment is the personal-best series entire: a whole competition on paper, with a projected winner, a projected order, and the margins between them, before anyone has run a step.

That version is worth reading for two reasons. Nobody has seen this competition yet, and this is the only account of it that exists. And it is the baseline. Every result that lands afterwards is a departure from it, and the size of the departure is the story: it is where the number comes from when a leader is said to be two hundred points up on their own best.

Complete before the gun

Forecast. The projected result in full, every event of it valued at what the athlete has done before.
PB series. The series the projection is made of, for every athlete in the field.
Event by event. The projected competition stepped one event at a time, the order moving as the points go on. The meet as the personal bests would run it.
Ranked#1 view. Every athlete's margin to the projected winner, drawn across the programme.

The backward-looking views wait, which is what they are for. Gaps, RankFlow and Stats have nothing to look back on until results arrive, and there is nothing to set against a personal best until a mark exists.

How the results arrive

Results are fed one athlete at a time, as each athlete's mark for the event becomes final. A throws or jumps column therefore fills over the hour or so the event takes, and an athlete who is not in it yet still has attempts to come.

What is on the page is never a best so far. An athlete appears in an event once their series is over, so a mark can be read as the result it is going to be, whether or not the rest of the field has finished. That is what makes the forecast worth opening during an event and not only after one, and it is why a competition page names the event in progress and says which views are already counting it.

What you can read

One page per competition, and the views on it divide by the question you arrived with.

Where it stands

Standings. Who leads and by how much. Open any athlete and the card unfolds into the whole programme: the mark, the points it scored, the running total after each event.
Gaps. The distance to first, second and third in points, drawn as bars you can read at a glance. Tap any athlete to make them the reference and measure the field against them instead.
Event by event. The standings after each event in turn, stepped through one panel at a time, with the rows moving to their new positions as the points count up.
Stats. Every athlete, every event: mark, event points, event rank, total after, rank after. The whole table in one place.

Where it is going

Forecast. The field ranked by projected final score, rebuilt every time a result lands.
Compare PB. The competition set against each athlete's own best, event by event, with the running difference. This is how you tell a leader having the day of their life from one who is still owed two hundred points.
PB series. The personal-best series behind both of the above, for every athlete in the field, so you can see what the projection is made of.
Ranked#1 view. Every athlete's points margin to the projected winner, drawn across the programme: solid where the events have been contested, dashed where they have not.

What would change it

What-if. Change a mark and watch the field re-rank around it. Put 8.10 in the long jump, or two seconds on the 1500, and see who it actually moves.
Next event. The mark an athlete needs in the event about to start to draw level with anyone you name, given in points and in the seconds or metres it takes.
Final event. The closing run worked in both directions. Name a total and it returns the time required; name a time and it returns the total it produces. Plus what each athlete needs to match the one on top.
RankFlow. The positions drawn as lines across the programme, so the event where the competition turned over is a shape rather than a memory.

The printable PDF report sheets are published separately, free for everyone, in the 107Live PDF archive.

Built for the stand

A competition is usually read on a phone, standing up, between events, so the page is cards and tabs sized for a thumb rather than a spreadsheet shrunk to fit. Each view answers one question and stops.

The widest tables are the exception, because a compare-to-PB grid does not fit any phone. Those redraw as a single image you can pinch, zoom, keep and send on: the same numbers, laid out the way the printed report sheet lays them out.

Competitions rotate

107Live covers one meet at a time. Combined events are contested in pairs, so it is always two competitions together: men's decathlon with women's heptathlon outdoors, men's heptathlon with women's pentathlon indoors. Which meets are covered follows the season, championships first, then what runs between them.

Now

The competition appears at the top of the hub once its start list is loaded, usually a little before the first event. Until the first result the card shows the field in personal-best order and the page behind it holds the projected competition described above. From the first scored result both switch to the real thing: how many events are done, who leads, what the top three have scored. Everything behind that card moves with the meet. This is the only window in which a forecast is worth anything, because it is the only window in which nobody knows the answer yet.
The two days after

A result is still news the morning after, so the competition stays where it is for another two days. Nobody arrives to find it filed away while people are still arguing about it.
Past, and still readable

Then it moves down into Past. The standings stay free, as they are everywhere on the site: the order, and every athlete's marks and points event by event. The forecast views close with the pass window. That is not a wall put up after the fact. It is what a forecast is worth once the full results exist: nobody needs a projection of a competition that has already been decided. Anyone holding a pass keeps the whole competition until their window ends.
Then the next one takes the slot

The hub holds a working set, not an archive, so a competition eventually makes way for the meet that follows it. What it published stays: the report sheets keep their permanent place in the archive, and championship editions keep theirs in the championships catalog.

Open the demo

The quickest way to understand any of this is to read a competition rather than a description of one. The demo decathlon is held mid-programme, real athletes and real marks with the later events cleared, so the forecast, the PB comparison and the what-if editor all have something to do. It is the one competition on the site that is open in full, permanently, to everyone: every view, no sign-in, nothing to buy.

Open decathlon demo See what is on now

Following one live

Standings are free on every competition, live or finished, with no account: the order, and every athlete's marks and points event by event. The demo competition above is free in full, and so is any competition a sponsor has opened.

From the moment a competition appears until its window closes, the forward-looking half is what the 107Live Forecast Pass covers: the forecast, the comparisons against personal bests and the series behind them, bought once for that competition and its window. It is priced per competition, one pass covers both halves of the meet, and there is nothing to cancel. The window ends on the competition's date rather than a date counted from the purchase, so a pass taken up before the first event covers the projection above as well as the meet itself.

What the pass opens, and what to know

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