Now for the “most improved” women’s distance skiers on the World Cup circuit this season, compared to last season. As always, this is based on an amalgamation of measures, in order to include improvements in one’s average performance, as well as one’s best races. Here are the top 12: As usual, due to some […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, most improved, women, World CupNow that the World Cup season has wrapped up, it’s time for a series of graphs looking at who made big jumps, in either direction, this year. We’ll start with the most improved in the men’s distance events. The criteria here is sort of a blend of different measures, with an adjustment for scale, so […]
Tagged Distance, men, most improved, World CupI couldn’t just leave Tuesday’s post without doing the same thing for the distance events. So here is another moderately curated selection of skiers who have never won an individual distance race, and yet their median result is better than 20th. Half of Skofterud’s distance races she’s placed better than 13th, but she’s never […]
Tagged Distance, men, women, World CupI received a request last week to look at sprinters who have had very good careers, but have never won a major race. I took a fairly simplistic route to this, and grabbed all the skiers who have never won a WC, OWG or WSC sprint event, and then simply calculated their career median result. […]
Tagged men, Sprint, women, World CupFirst some quick seeds calculated for Oslo’s freestyle mass start races: [table id=87 /] Finally, a commenter on my last post asked about how often Kikkan and Marit had actually met in a sprint final. The answer is that it has happened (in major events) nine times, and Kikkan has won 3 of them, include […]
Tagged head to head, kikkan randall, marit bjoergen, oslo, seed, Sprint, World CupSince Kikkan Randall locked up the Sprint World Cup title this weekend with a (narrow) win over Marit Bjoergen, I thought it might be instructive to review their head-to-head history in sprinting: The dashed line is the trend for freestyle races and the solid is classic. Dots in the red are victories for Kikkan […]
Tagged kikkan randall, marit bjoergen, Sprint, World CupSo the title probably gives this away, but bear with me. Consider a skier with the following distance results profile in major competitions: So by the end of the 2011-2012 season this guy has just turned 31. As you can see, he’s had quite a solid career. Things were good but fairly steady from 2004 […]
Tagged Distance, johan olsson, World Cup, WSC