A number of Americans and Canadians participated in some big FIS races in Beitostølen, Norway this past weekend. Not all the results have migrated over to the FIS site yet, so I’m just going to focus on the classic distance races from Saturday. We should keep in mind throughout that, from what I’ve read, many […]
Tagged andrew musgrave, beitostølen, Distance, fis points, ivan babikov, men, recap, simi hamiltonBiathlon’s cool in part because there’s so much more data to play with. One seemingly minor thing I’ve been struggling with is how best to graph an athlete’s overall race results and their shooting statistics on the same graph. The obvious answer of just overlaying them and including a second y axis (since shooting accuracy […]
Tagged biathlon, graphs, median percent back, shootingWith the biathlon World Cups taking a turn through my childhood backyard these past few weekends, I’ve been spending more time trying to come up with some nice biathlon plots. Fairly early on with my race snapshot graphs I switched over with the cross country ones to show each athlete’s results compared to all their […]
Tagged biathlon, race snapshotThese graphs will look the same, but I tried something a bit different for these. Mass start races in biathlon are similar to those in cross country in that they tend to lead to tighter races and hence lower percent back values than in other race formats. So I’m trying out restricting these versions to […]
Tagged biathlon, mass start, men, race snapshot, women, World CupWhat a crazy story for Lowell Bailey today! Too bad, hopefully he can channel the frustration into skiing fast next time around.
Tagged biathlon, lowell bailey, pursuit, race snapshot, World CupAnother down week with World Cup action on the cross-country side of things, but Drammen and World Champs are just around the corner. Last weekend saw the return of the Rybinsk World Cups, a pursuit and a sprint. We also had the first weekend of biathlon World Cups over here in the US with some […]
Tagged week in reviewIt’d be nice if we could get Sara Studebaker and Laura Spector skiing fast (and shooting well)Â at the same time. But maybe I’m just being picky.
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, Sprint, women