Pool Setup Calculator

This calculator checks a pool's dimensions against FINA/World Aquatics competition standards and estimates what filling and running it actually requires. Playing area is simply length times width, and water volume follows directly by multiplying that area by depth (converted to liters, then to US gallons at the standard 0.264172 factor). The FINA compliance score is a straightforward checklist scored out of 100: 30 points each for meeting the 30m minimum length and 20m minimum width, 20 points for the 1.8m minimum depth, plus bonus points for exceeding the preferred 2.0m depth and for extra length beyond 33m that gives players room for re-entry after a exclusion.

Boundary marker count comes from the pool's full perimeter divided by a 1.5m spacing interval — a rough safety-marker estimate, not an official product spec. Equipment quantities are simplified defaults: caps assume FINA's 13-player roster cap times two teams plus four spares, balls scale from 6 (recreational/high school) to 12 (collegiate and up) to cover match and warm-up needs, and the daily heating-energy estimate is a rough approximation assuming the water needs to stay about 2°C above ambient, not a real thermal-loss calculation accounting for pool covers, ambient humidity, or evaporation. Use this to sanity-check whether an existing facility meets competitive standards and to budget rough equipment counts — not as a substitute for an official FINA facility inspection or a real HVAC/heating engineering estimate.