I’m a stats guy. Â I love numbers and data and graphs. Â I will happily admit that this tends to make me, shall we say, particular about all things quantitative. Â Some people may call it being anal; I prefer to think of it as being correct. Which is why I need to take a moment to […]
Tagged commentary, humor, rant, SprintNow for the sprinting versions of the graphs from my previous post. First up the men: These graphs stretch back into the prehistory of sprinting, so keep that min mind. The Italian men kind of came out of the barn dominating sprinting (or whatever you want to call the “sprinting” events that existed back in […]
Tagged finland, Germany, italy, men, performance, Sprint, trend, womenMore World Cup action from my home state! Technically, I’m more from Southern Maine, and there really is a distinction, but no matter. Looks like Scott Perras had an excellent race for the Canadians! Lowell Bailey had a good, but maybe not great day.
Tagged biathlon, men, race snapshot, Sprint, World CupI made a graph a while back for a post dealing with the concern in Norway about their men’s distance squad, and in a follow-up post I provided a version of the same graph for the Swedish and Russian men’s distance teams as well. I’ve decided that I kind of like this graph; it’s a […]
Tagged finland, Germany, italy, performance, trendA strange discussion has suddenly broken out over at FasterSkier in response to some comments that Marit Björgen made about how she’d like be able to race the 50km distance just like the men do. A reader  sent me a note asking if I’d specifically address this statement from the comments: Looking at the times […]
Tagged battle of the sexes, men vs women, qualification, race schedules, Sprint, timeAs always, it’s nice to see plenty of North Americans jaunting around Europe getting in some good racing. I returned from my travels this weekend to learn that some Americans had some strong results at the Scandinavian Cups in Estonia. Let’s take a bit of a closer look at the distance results, shall we? First […]
Tagged ida sargent, percent back difference, scandinavian cupI only have the raw result this time around, so nothing fancy. Instead, we’ll just pick out some people who looked like they had some unusually good races again. There’s a lot less to say here, since it’s a lot harder to measure sprinting performance in ways that account for the strength of the field. […]
Tagged recap, rybinsk, Sprint, World Cup