A bit delayed, since I spent a goodly portion of Saturday running, and most of the entire weekend without internet. With the small fields it can be a little tough to interpret results from these events, to be sure. Particularly when the distance race was a pursuit, which often lead to artificially low FIS points […]
Tagged Distance, men, pursuit, recap, rybinsk, women, World CupI feel like a grade school teacher, checking off names and such, but let’s see how many folks actually showed up in Rybinsk compared to past years: I’ve plotted the number of racers and nations present in the sprint and distance events in Rybinsk, along with the corresponding averages for all other World Cup events […]
Tagged attendance, rybinsk, World CupAfter some thought, I feel compelled to expand a bit on my post regarding the US National Ranking List (NRL). Actually, my thoughts on the subject apply to points lists and athlete ranking in XC skiing more generally. Ranking athletes via some numerical system can be both fun and necessary. It’s fun for skiing fans […]
Tagged commentary, editorial, NRL, points, ranking listMore strong racing from Lowell Bailey and Sara Studebaker.
Tagged biathlon, pursuit, race snapshot, USA, World CupBetter late than never, I suppose. As you might expect from the Rybinsk events, a lot of people ended up doing better than they usually do. The few exceptions seemed to be John Kristian Dahl, Natalia Korosteleva and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, although I’m not sure how close to top form Saarinen is at the moment.
Tagged freestyle, race snapshot, rybinsk, Sprint, World CupSo, our Inn’s Internet is giving me nothing but 105 Errors, and there doesn’t seem to be much anyone can do about it. Hence, I’m reduced to alerting you of this using my phone via 3G. (Definitely regretting not jailbreaking my phone right now.) On the other hand, the Statistical Wife and I are pleasantly […]
I’m heading off to ‘The Islands” for a race tomorrow, but I should still be able to get the race snapshot graphs up, albeit a bit later in the day than usual. Thanks again to Skaði Nordic for bringing you this week’s Week In Review… I mucked around with Google’s Chart API just for fun […]
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