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Meet day, without
the mental arithmetic.
Three attempts the bar can actually make, a warm-up counted back from the flight, and what your total scores. Not one of the seven biggest logging apps does any of it.
You
The lifter and the meet
For one lift, and one you have actually made.
Attempts
What goes on the card
- Opener162.5 kg
- Second172.5 kg
- Third180 kg
91 / 96 / 101 percent is a convention, not a finding, there is no study that fixes an opener at 91%. Change them. Every figure is rounded down to something the bar can actually be loaded to, because rounding an opener up is rounding toward the miss.
Timing
When to start warming up
Time a few and use that.
- Bar loads for your opener
- in 16 min
- Start your first warm-up
- 4 min ago
You are behind the flight
Score
What the total is worth
- DOTS
- 337.54
- IPF GL
- 69.21
Comparable across weight classes and across divisions. Built by the BVDK for exactly that, which is why it is the one to use on a mixed team.
What an IPF-affiliated meet actually scores you on. Its coefficients differ by kit and by event, so the two pickers above change this number and not the other one.
Both formulas are transcribed from the OpenPowerlifting reference implementation and checked against its published worked examples: Dmitry Inzarkin’s 1035 kg at 92.04 kg scores 112.85, and Susanna Torronen’s 122.5 kg bench at 70.5 kg scores 96.78. Wilks is deliberately not here: the IPF stopped using it, which is why DOTS exists.
The questions people ask about this one
- Why does it round my attempts down?
- Because rounding an opener up is rounding toward the miss. Every figure is floored to something the bar can actually be loaded to with 2.5 kg jumps, using the same function the app's plate calculator uses, an attempt card saying 142.3 kg is a card the loaders cannot fill.
- Are 91 / 96 / 101 percent the right numbers?
- They are the shape most coaching writing lands on, and they are a convention rather than a finding, there is no study that fixes an opener at 91%. They are three inputs you can change, and the arithmetic is the product here, not the percentages.
- What is the difference between DOTS and IPF GL?
- DOTS was built by the German IPF affiliate to compare lifters across weight classes AND across divisions, which is what you want for a mixed team. IPF GL is what an IPF-affiliated meet actually scores you on, and its coefficients differ by kit and by event, so raw and single-ply, and full power and bench-only, are four different curves.
- Where is Wilks?
- Deliberately absent. The IPF stopped using it, which is the reason DOTS was created in the first place. Two current formulas checked against published results beats three where one is deprecated, if you need Wilks for a federation that still scores on it, say so and it can be added with its source.
- Is any of this advice?
- No, and the distinction matters. Showing you what 91% of your best single rounds to is arithmetic. Telling you to open there would be coaching somebody we have never seen lift, on a day we know nothing about. Your coach picks the numbers; this does the subtraction.
And the rest of the year
A meet is one day. What decides it is the twenty weeks before, which is what Spottr is for, every set logged, what to lift next worked out from what you actually did, and a chart per rep range so you can see whether your fives are moving.
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