Sometimes people you don’t expect race very fast. A reader asked me to look into this general topic, this will be the distance race installment. I’ll do a sprint version in a few days. I’m going to focus here on people who have won Olympic medals in distance events. To measure how “unexpected” it was, […]
Tagged Analysis, olympicsNow that I have some nifty code for analyzing the optimal relay team given a set of skiers to choose from, I thought I’d have some fun by looking at the Norwegian women. Now, clearly on some level it almost doesn’t matter which folks you put on this team in addition to Bjorgen and Johaug. […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, norway, relay, women, World CupSince we in the US now have a relay team that’s doing quite well, that also means we as fans have something new (and fun!) to argue about. Namely, what is the best team we can put out there? Let’s assume that there are seven women who could potentially be placed on the US women’s […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, relay, USA, women, World CupWhat do I notice about the men’s podium from Saturday’s 15k classic race: Excepting Poltaranin, not much racing at this level between them. In fact, among the youngest men’s distance podiums I have on record (basically since the early 90’s): Saturday’s race is that unusually low value in the lower right corner. As […]
Tagged Age, Analysis, Distance, men, podium, World CupI was chatting with some friends today about the difference in depth between the US men’s and women’s squads, particularly in distance events, so when I sat down to noodle around with some data I ended up making this graph: This is all US men’s distance results for the past five seasons or so, […]
Tagged Distance, men, US, World Cup