So far, applying my alternative sprint points measure to look at skiers with major improvements or declines between seasons has worked OK, but when we turn to female sprinters who saw a major decline things get dicey.First off, let’s acknowledge that Claudia Kuenzel-Nystad is getting a bum deal here. Â She squeaked into consideration by doing exactly five sprint races last season, two of which resulted in very slow qualifying times. Â But her other three races were basically right in line with the rest of her sprinting career.
I picked five races as a minimum cutoff, but clearly I should have tinkered more with different values. Â Sprinting is just more volatile that distance racing, so it seems reasonable to require somewhat more races to include in an average. Â Live and learn.
I suppose its fair to say that Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle had a significantly subpar sprinting season last year, but its not a huge drop off. Â Otherwise, much of this seems slightly unfair. Â I’ll have to revisit this again in the future…
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