title: Appendices description: The reference layer of the book: team profiles, the asset and source records, the evidence limits and the mass and power tables. part: Appendices toc_depth: 2 tags: - reference - data - index

Appendices

The appendices hold the reference material that would interrupt the reading chapters: the team profiles, the asset record, the source record, the evidence limits and the mass and power tables. Each one answers a question that a chapter raises and cannot stop to answer.

Appendix ATeam dossier indexEvery team profile, by tier, university, country and source count. Appendix BAsset indexAll 307 figures, photographs, diagrams and documents, with credits. Appendix CSource indexHow the 1,251 registered sources are distributed. Appendix DEvidence coverageWhat the evidence base covers well, and where it is thin. Appendix FMass and power dataThe 103 data rows behind the mass and power model. Appendix EAbout the evidenceEvidence grades, citation form, how to read the numbers, and limits.

What the appendices are for

They are the evidence layer, not extra reading. A citation in a chapter resolves here, a credit under a figure resolves here, and a mass or an energy value has its row here.
Appendix D is the one to read before trusting a number. It states which topics the public record supports and which have to be measured on the team’s own hardware.
Appendix E sits under About rather than in this part. It explains the four evidence grades, the citation form, the cost convention and the known limits.

How the appendices work together

Every claim in the book carries a small source identifier, and the source index is where those identifiers resolve. Every figure carries a credit, and the asset index is the record behind that credit. Where a mass, a pack or an electrical load appears, the mass and power data holds the row it came from with the evidence basis beside it. Where the record stops, evidence coverage says so.

The team profiles are the one appendix that reads as a set of pages rather than a table. The team dossier index orders all 51 by tier, and the team browser filters the same set by country, tier and finals record.

If a number has to be checked

Three routes lead to the same place:

The page’s own source list. A page that cites a source ends with the list it used, with title, publisher, date and an original link.
The owner page. A headline statistic is stated once with its sample and period, collected on Key numbers and Statistics.
The exported data. The nine data tables, including the 103 mass and power rows, are available as CSV from Downloads.

The standard is the same in all three: a number needs an owner, a sample and a date. Where one of those is missing, evidence coverage names the gap and the measurement that would close it.