A quick follow up to my previous post on the same topic for women. Swap Germany for Russia, and otherwise the answer is largely unchanged: Once again, this is the number of skiers born since 1988 who’s best FIS points results last season averaged better than 50 FIS points. I used a more strict cutoff […]
Tagged development, men, norway, russiaAnswer: Norway. And Russia. Looking forward to the upcoming season, I’m somewhat astounded by the number of talented young Norwegian women on the horizon. Here’s a quick snapshot of what I’m talking about. I took female skiers born no earlier than 1988 who did at least 3 FIS races last season, and averaged their best […]
Tagged development, Distance, norway, Sprint, women, youthIf you imagine a typical skier’s career in FIS points, it will often follow a vaguely parabolic shape: they get faster for a while and then get slower for a while. Â Somewhere in between there they “peaked”. Â Our goal in this post is to estimate approximately when this occurs for each athlete and then see […]
Tagged Age, peakingMarit Bjørgen pretty much wiped the floor with folks last year in distance events: As a stats guy, when I see extreme events I tend not to expect them to repeat themselves. The general principle here is called regression to the mean. Extreme events are just unlikely, so it doesn’t make sense to expect them […]
Tagged bjoern daehlie, lukas bauer, marit bjoergen, mathias fredricksson, rene sommerfeldt, vladimir smirnovOn Monday I looked at the ratio of women to men in FIS races during the 2010-2011 season. This will just be a quick update on that to look at the same data, but over time. The same caveats apply here. I’m only looking at participants in FIS sanctioned races, which misses lots of races […]
Tagged gender, participation ratesA commenter noted a few other classic specialists in my post on Erling Jevne the other day. So how did they fare against Jevne? It’s generally important to note here that my data stops in 1992, and several of these folks were active before then. In Kirvesniemi’s case, way before. Jevne and Sture Sirvetsen were probably […]
Tagged classic, erling jevne, harri kirvesniemi, markus gandler, men, specialists, sture sirvetsenErling Jevne wasn’t the best skier during his era, having to compete with folks like Dæhlie and Smirnov among others. And he wasn’t even the best classic skier, most likely. At least, he was still mostly losing to those two guys even in classic races: Jevne fared better post-1997, but Dæhlie always had at least […]
Tagged bjoern daehlie, erling jevne, vladimir smirnov