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Race Snapshot: Tour de Ski 15/35km Pursuit

You can read a brief explanation of these graphs here. Men’s race: Women;s race:

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2013 01 03 Joran Cross Country
Race Snapshots
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Sprint Hit Rate

The recent good fortune of the US women’s team, particularly in sprinting had me thinking a bit about measuring team performance in sprint events at a high level. The result was the following plots which show the rate at which the the top skiers (the top 4 in this case) in each race race one […]

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2013 01 03 Joran World Cup Comments (0)

Kylloenen and Herrmann Improvements

Two skiers who have emerged over the past several races with noticeably improved results are Finland’s Anne Kylloenen and Germany’s Denise Herrmann: Kylloenen’s results earlier in the season were more or less in line with her better results previously, but it’s been the last few races that have really been much better. Hermann on the […]

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2013 01 01 Joran Cross Country
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Pre-Tour Status Update

As we approach the Tour de Ski, this is a short assessment of how the US and Canadian teams are doing so far compared to previous seasons. As I typically do, I’m going to include all World Cup results, rather than just the best results. Clearly, there have been some strong results for both the […]

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2012 12 27 Joran Cross Country
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Translating Results Back to Europe

Anytime the World Cup hits North America, the issue of weaker fields always comes up. Frequently, even when American or Canadian skiers do seemingly very well here, there’s always that nagging feeling about how that result would translate to a more “complete” World Cup field in Europe. Overall, I think the US results in particular […]

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2012 12 20 Joran Cross Country
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Winning On Your Birthday

Thanks to a very helpful Bothan (who did not die to bring me this information!) I got a hold of the full birth dates of FIS registered XC skiers. That opens up a whole lot of new territory for me, but first things first: we need to talk about data quality. One minor caveat about […]

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2012 12 18 Joran Cross Country
Fun Stuff
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Some More North American Sprinting Trends

A commenter on my last post correctly pointed out that it might be interesting to look at performance using a percent back based measure on the qualifying times, since the number of racers present can greatly effect finishing place. I didn’t quite have time to pull together the standardization piece that I typically use with […]

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2012 12 13 Joran Cross Country
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