This topic is going to be somewhat more technical than usual. Â It involves some inside baseball, to mix sports metaphors, so if the nitty gritty details of FIS point calculations don’t strike you as an exciting page turner, you’ve been warned! Â However, if you stick with me, you’ll learn how brutally stupid FIS’s F-factor adjustments […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, eqpb, f factor, fis points, interval start, mass start, technicalThis is the final post in a four part series on rookie performance on the World Cup. Â To recap: we’re trying to quantify differences in the level of preparation among athletes from different nations upon first entering the World Cup circuit. Â A “rookie skier” for our purposes is one who’s done seven or fewer races […]
Tagged Analysis, rookies, Sprint, US Skiing, World CupThis is another installment in a series (see here and here for important background and setup; if you get confused read them first) where I’ve been looking at comparing performances of rookie skiers on the World Cup. Â In those previous two posts I looked at distance racing, so now it’s time to turn our attention […]
Tagged Analysis, rookies, Sprint, US Skiing, World CupIn a previous post, I talked about rookie skier performance on the World Cup. Â You can check back there for an explanation of what I mean by a rookie skier and the specifics of how I selected which data to use. Â I left off in that post with the following graph, showing rookie FIS point […]
Tagged Analysis, development, Distance, rookiesYou might have noticed the Athlete Rankings tab at the top of the page. Â If you click on that tab, rather than navigating through the mouse over menus you’ll see a brief description of what they are, but I thought I’d put a quick note on them here. First I need to explain why the […]
Tagged rankingsEvery season a new crop of young skiers cut their teeth on the World Cup circuit. Â These might be new national team members racing on the World Cup full time, or they might be Nation’s Group athletes who receive a start as part of a host nation’s extra start allotments. Â Each nation likely has a […]
Tagged Analysis, development, Distance, rookies, World Cup[Note: This article first appeared here.] Chris Grover recently mentioned a graph, “Every athlete who is being nominated to the U.S. Ski Team this year has something in common. Â They are on the path to winning a medal. This medal could from the World Cup, World Championship or Olympic Winter Games, but they are on […]
Tagged Age, Analysis, Distance, Sprint, US Skiing