That is what almost everyone who reached out said answering the question in last month's newsletter. The journey for this grass roots site has been amazingly productive considering the resources available.  Everything on the site management side has been done per the original plan with a small handful of extremely devoted volunteers - my deep gratitude to you. I didn't plan on getting this far without securing the sponsorships and grants to sustain this effort.  

Amazing Efficiency Progress

The huge difference this year is due to a friend who has been phenomenal providing great guidance and hundreds of thousands of performances plus huge improvements to the programs we use to insert performances. On average, less than 17,000 performances were inserted each month in 2014 & 2015. 34,000 performances provided by our friend or anyone else in a usable format (like Canada also provides - thank you Athletics Canada) takes between 15 and 45 minutes!!!!

What does this mean to Masters Athletes? 

The idea of an all-inclusive, real time world rankings is possible. There is more to develop before we get there but having a complete year's rankings list finalized within 3 months of the season ending is possible, even for 2016!

What can Masters Athletes do to help this happen?

The two critical factors are funding and collaboration. Funding: There are costs to run this site ( see details) - no different than anything in this world. We have plans on how to raise the funding to sustain this site and you can probably help. Email or call me (you can call through Facebook Messenger) and I will share details / we can discuss. Donations and Memberships  are the interim funding that keep this site running. Collaboration: Like stated above, we can insert files with thousands of performances quickly. Most national statisticians can provide these files so you can help get your nation's performances inserted by contacting your statistician and asking them to work with us. There are other tools developed that make it easy to insert whole meet results so you can also help by sending whole meet results.

This site is so close!

We are on the cusp of pulling this together. Everyone who looks at all the corrections still needed, missing performances, etc. should see all the corrections that have been made, performances that are inserted, etc. and recognize how close this is. It will all happen with a little more help.