[Farm93]

Was watching the final Formula One race of the season yesterday and heard this:

F1 conducted 78,000 tests during its season that started in July. Of those, it had a total of 76 positive tests among all participants.

College football has done a TERRIBLE job by comparison.

Was just wondering what happens if there are virus outbreaks for the playoff teams and the NY6 bowls. Do they postpone the games or cancel them?

What are college football's numbers?

The F1 numbers likely look better than they actually are.  How many of these tests were done on the same persons?

if 100x, then that's just 780 persons getting 76 positives.

The NFL in comparison had about 43K tests from Nov 1st to Nov 7th to about 8k players and personnel.  56 positives.

Formula 1 has thousands of people in its travelling caravan and entering the location bubbles.
The season spanned 23 weeks.  I believe most of those thousands were tested 2 or 3 times a week.
And this is an organization that has everyone jumping on planes to fly all over the world.

However, just for the record even if it was 76 out of 780 that would still be a lot better than your average D1 football team.   There are quite a number of teams that have had far more than 10% of their athletes test positive over the last 23 weeks.

I am not going to check, but I want to say it was probably 76 against a denominator of 2,000-3,000 or so though not all in the denominator went to every event.   For F1 the media was in their travelling bubble, so I believe they would also be in the 76 were media members.

The bigger success for F1 was that every car raced in every event, and every event was held as scheduled in the COVID compressed calendar.   
That obviously has not happened in college football or college basketball.

[Farm93]

Was watching the final Formula One race of the season yesterday and heard this:

F1 conducted 78,000 tests during its season that started in July. Of those, it had a total of 76 positive tests among all participants.

College football has done a TERRIBLE job by comparison.

Was just wondering what happens if there are virus outbreaks for the playoff teams and the NY6 bowls. Do they postpone the games or cancel them?

What are college football's numbers?

The F1 numbers likely look better than they actually are.  How many of these tests were done on the same persons?

if 100x, then that's just 780 persons getting 76 positives.

The NFL in comparison had about 43K tests from Nov 1st to Nov 7th to about 8k players and personnel.  56 positives.

Formula 1 has thousands of people in its travelling caravan and entering the location bubbles.
The season spanned 23 weeks.  I believe most of those thousands were tested 2 or 3 times a week.
And this is an organization that has everyone jumping on planes to fly all over the world.

However, just for the record even if it was 76 out of 780 that would still be a lot better than your average D1 football team.   There are quite a number of teams that have had far more than 10% of their athletes test positive over the last 23 weeks.

I am not going to check, but I want to say it was probably 76 against a denominator of 2,000-3,000 or so though not all in the denominator went to every event.   For F1 the media was in their travelling bubble, so I believe they would also be in the 76 were media members.

The bigger success for F1 was that every car raced in every event, and every event was held as scheduled in the COVID compressed calendar.   
That obviously has not happened in college football or college basketball.