Is It A Sport Formula
====Is it a Sport? Formula====
June 27, 2006 ~ Work In Progress
I guess it's hard to classify a sport to a single definate description. We have events like curling, archery, fishing and so on. Now I fish tournaments regularly and I also golf, target shoot, play poker and much more. Maybe dominos are considered a sport because of skill and stratagy is used and you compete to win. I disagree with dominos being a sport; this should be on the Gameshow Network or Bravo along with Celebrity Poker Showdown and not on ESPN. I love poker but I won't call it a sport, I call it a game. This is why I have decided to create this process. The question people seem to always ask is; “What makes a sport, a sport?"
I am going to start of and create a definition I will use in this theory. In a collection of all games, sports, leisuly past times and events we can participate in we need a describing term. I am choosing to lable such actions as an “activity”. My definition of activity is; any form of leisure that one or more persons can take part in where a ultimate goal is to beat an opponent(s) or beat a personal best score.
Now that we have “activity” defined we can move on to trying to decide what makes a sport a sport. To do this we need to apply variables to a formula. The variables are parts of the activity that when combined will either make or break that activity as being classified as a sport.
Obviously it takes skill, stratagy and finess to participate well in activities, and there are also levels of coordination needed as well as competition factors. A sport should be classified as an activity that involves physical exurtion to achieve a goal. So therefore, I would state that a sport is an activity that required physical exursion of some level.
Physical Exursion
Then Tic-Tac-Toe would be a sport if competition was the factor, but it is not a sport, it's a activity. So sports should include: Activities involving physical exertion including but not limited to extreme sports. Physical exertion is going to be my key variable and will be defined in means of; An activity that raises the cardio level above the resting heart rate and is limited to only occuring from physical actions. Therefore when your heart rate increase from bluffing at poker, this would not classify as a raised cardio level for sport classification.
Coordination
So under these qualifications, bowling is a sport, right? There is a physical action taking place of throwing different weighted balls using different spin styles to obtain the goal of knocking pins over. Well, I would classify this as a low cardio sport. But this takes a certain cordination as I stated, which is my next factor. Coordination in terms of my variable includes (skill, stratagy and finess).
Competition
All activities have different levels of competition. Whether you are playing by youself, a match game or a tournament, there are different levels of competitive natures we face.
Base Formula
(Coordination+Competition)(Physical Exertion)= SPORT
In case of chess Physical Exertion = 0, therefore Sport = 0
3 variables:
Coordination = A
Competition = B
Physical Exertion = C
Sports = X
x=c(a+b)
Next I will break each variable down seperatly and define how I am going to determine values. Each variable will have its own formula to determine the value to be plugged into the main formula.
