The concept of a “hot hand” is a popular one in various sports, and has been variously bunked, debunked and rebunked in numerous contexts. Â A common manifestation of this idea comes from basketball, where fans routinely feel that players will get “hot” during a stretch of a game during which they make a much higher […]
Tagged accuracy, biathlon, hot hand, shootingI wrote this a while back, intending to pen similar posts for the men, but never got around to it, mainly because I’ve been working on other stuff (Statistical Skier related, but different…). But since I made the graphs, I thought I’d share them even if I never get around to the men’s post… Let’s […]
Tagged biathlon, laura s, sara studebaker, season review, women, World Cup, zina kocherSince the athlete rankings I calculated for cross country skiers seem to be fairly popular, I thought I’d push up the schedule on releasing the biathlon versions. The general methodology is the same as what I outlined here. Â Biathlon doesn’t have sprint races, so there’s just one category of rankings, instead of splitting things up […]
Tagged biathlon, rankings