Christian Hoffmann Christopher Tassava chimed in with another request, regarding the news this week about Christian Hoffman’s 6 year suspension. Since I did post looking at who stood to gain if you removed Andrus Veerpalu from past results, he wanted to know what it would look like if we did the same thing with Christian […]
Tagged Distance, fis race, freestyle, liz stephen, noah hoffman, seefeldMen’s Biathlon The US men’s biathlon team had an auspicious start to the season. Lowell Bailey in particular skied some of the best races of his life. Let’s focus on the following three North Americans (click for larger version): Obviously, the shooting statistics for this season are based on only this past weekend’s racing, so […]
Tagged biathlon, brendan green, chandra crawford, lowell bailey, men, Sprint, tim burkeSprint Recap Thanks again to Jan over at WorldOfXC.com (and FIS’s ability to not wreck them, although they tried!) we have the sprint heat times from Saturday. Starting with the women’s semifinals: Semifinal 1 was markedly faster, no? It doesn’t appear that Kikkan suffered for it, but then the Düsseldorf course is unusually short for […]
Tagged dusseldorf, kikkan randall, men, race recap, Sprint, women, World CupPodcast Shenanigans So I tune into the FasterSkier podcast tonight during my run, only to hear that I’m apparently the lead topic, by way of Kikkan Randall’s strong classic sprint (and distance) results in Kuusamo. Fair enough. As fun as it would be to turn this into a full on blog war, I actually think […]
Tagged early season, vibeke skofterudA quick look at our lovely neighbors to the north! I’m going to focus on the folks on the World Cup squad, starting with the men: These are the WC level distance results (excluding Len Valjas). I confess I’m a little worried about Ivan Babikov, who had a rough season last year. His trend over […]
Tagged alex harvey, canada, chandra crawford, devon kershaw, perianne jones, season preview, World CupI’m continuing to pick and choose which nations in Fasterskier’s countdown to write about. The US and Canada I’ll cover later in more detail, and I’m written about Japan a fair bit in the past. A couple of comments in their write up about Kazahkstan stuck out to me. The first was the comment about […]
Tagged alexey poltaranin, anastasia slonova, kazahkstan, season preview, World CupI’ll be the first to admit that sprinting doesn’t get as much love here at Statistical Skier. Â To be honest, that’s probably my subconscious at work, as I have a stronger connection to distance events I suppose. Â But it’s not terribly fair, so here is some World Cup sprint qualification analysis for all you sprint […]
Tagged Analysis, bootstrapping, pace, qualification, R, Sprint