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Score a team fitness challenge the same way twice

A working method for turning mixed activity — walking, running, cycling, swimming — into one fair leaderboard, with the assumptions written down instead of hidden in a spreadsheet.

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  • scoring·3 min read

    How to score a team fitness challenge without arguments

    Four steps to settle the scoring before a challenge starts: choose the unit of measurement, convert by time, handle missing data, and publish the rules where the whole team can see them.

  • challenge design·6 min read

    Choosing challenge formats that survive week six

    Why participation may fall in the middle weeks of an activity challenge, and four competition structures that may hold on to participants: mixed teams, repeated short stages, round-robin matchups, and accumulation with a cap.

  • activity data·12 min read

    What activity data you actually need from participants

    Telling apart data you need to read on the spot from data you must store, how to take readings from a watch without building a health record, and a minimum disclosure statement for a team challenge.

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