If 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, peakingSince earlier this week I gave some context for what people’s performances would roughly translate into compared to how Kris Freeman and Liz Stephen skied on the WC last season, I thought I should provide some context for my context, so to speak. So the following two graphs show how various folks from last years […]
Tagged climb to the castle, preseason, rollerskiingSame story as last time, only the women this time. Kikkan Randall may have made a better benchmark, but Liz Stephen is no slouch in WC distance events either. As before, all of this is highly approximate. I’ve taken Stephen’s races from last season, removed some of the least comparable (prologue’s for example), and then calculated where […]
Tagged climb to the castle, domestic, preseasonThis annual rollerski race was this past weekend, and as usual attracted a fair number of good domestic skiers. With the US Ski Team attending, it’s a good chance for folks to test themselves against folks like Kris Freeman. As with any other race, it’s natural to ask what the results “mean”. There are no […]
Tagged climb to the castle, domestic, preseason, rollerskiingMarit 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 ratesFast and Female is a great organization, operating mainly in the US and Canada to promote women’s participation in skiing (or sports, more generally). I’ve been thinking about women’s participation in sports recently, so I thought I’d look up some data. Using all FIS sanctioned races from the 2010-2011, the following graph shows the ratio […]
Tagged gender, men, women