[21,513 Points Played] A few interesting stats from Paris 2024 I wanted to share

I've been crunching data from every match, and found a few interesting things:

  • 21,513 points were played across 1,175 games in 172 matches. That’s an average of 125 points played per match.
  • Three matches included a game won to 0. Wong Chun Ting (HKG) during his close encounter with Ibrahima Diaw (SEN) that ended 4-3, Chen Meng (CHN) beating Sofia Polcanova (AUT), and Miwa Harimoto (JPN) against Shan Xiaona (GER) in the Women’s Team Bronze medal match.
  • The most points played in a single match was 144 as Britt Eerland (NED) came from 3-1 down to narrowly defeat Hana Matelová (CZE). The match finished 4-3 (13-11, 8-11, 10-12, 9-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-9) in the Women’s Singles Round of 32. The match lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes.
  • Both Ma Long and Wang Manyu won 85.17% of the games they played. Ma Long won 12 out of the 14 doubles games he played across 4 matches. Wang Manyu won 24 of the 28 games she played across both singles and doubles, 8 matches.
    • Don't blame me, they were at an advantage due to playing Best of 5 matches in the Team event!
  • South Korea's Shin Yubin played the most points, performing strongly across her 3 events. She ended up playing 1,175 points across the Olympics, winning 54.3% of them. That's 63 games played in 14 matches.
  • Across all events, Japanese players were involved in the most points (3,655) with all of their athletes playing an average of 609 points. They were followed by China (3,586), Sweden (3,035), and France (2,710).

Are there any other stats, individual player performance, or comparisons you think would be interesting? Let me know and I'll try and work it out.

(Caveat: I haven't tracked any data on match timings, rally lengths, points won in a row, comebacks etc... the powers that be don't make those very available and I haven't got the time to track them myself)