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A deleted result or deleted result is a result that does not come under the valuation in many competitive sports. In some sports in which there are several runs, there is a rule that the worst individual result is deleted for each participant or each team.

The purpose of deducting deleted results is to eliminate so-called negative outliers from the results. Especially in sports that show a high variance in the performance of the individual athlete or that are clearly influenced by external circumstances (e.g. wind, weather), it is necessary to reduce random effects in order to determine the best athlete.

The essential tool here is not just one competition, but several runs. Either the best individual result or the best average is then assessed, disregarding the deleted results.

Sports with discarded results

Sometimes the rules for certain sports only provide for results to be deleted from youth competitions, or the number of results to be deleted varies from youth to senior level. Sports where discarded results are part of the competition :

formula 1

In Formula 1 , up to and including 1990, there were so-called "prank results". Only a certain number of point results were counted for the World Cup, which has been changed several times over the years. So counted

  • 1950–1953 only the best four results (from 7–9 races)
  • 1954–1957, 1959, 1961–1962 and 1966 only the best five results (also from 7–9 races)
  • 1958, 1960 and 1963–1965 only the best six results (from 10–11 races)
  • 1981–1990 only the best eleven results (from 15–16 races)

In the years 1967–1978 the season was divided into two halves, of which one result was not counted. In 1979 there were only four results in each half of the season (from 15 races) and in 1980 five (from 14 races).

As a result of this cancellation rule, it happened that drivers were assigned fewer points in the final World Championship standings than they had actually achieved. However, this only affected a small number of pilots, as the failure rate until the end of the 1980s was significantly higher than it is today and thus hardly any driver managed more than ten points in one season.

The cancellation rule became particularly important in 1988 : The Brazilian Ayrton Senna won his first world championship after deducting all the cancellation results with 90 to 87 points against the French Alain Prost . In fact, considering all the results, Prost would have been ahead with 105 to 94 points.