Just a few short notes focusing on the North Americans in the classic sprint yesterday. Â First the men: One thing that stands out to me is that Harvey was actually skiing slightly faster than Kershaw all day. Â Of course, the differences are very small (~1 second), but it highlights how large an impact the make-up […]
Tagged alex harvey, andrew newell, classic, devon kershaw, kikkan randall, kris freeman, Sprint, tour de ski, World CupIf you’ve ever wondered why I haven’t attempted more statistical machinations to predict race results, today’s races are an example of why I haven’t. Â Actually, I’ve spent a fair bit of time trying to build some models that will predict performance, but what I’ve learned is that skiers are too variable for reasonably simple models […]
Tagged eqpb, mass start, pursuit, race snapshot, tour de ski, World CupOnce again thanks to my data connection over at WorldofXC.com for the sprint splits data. Â The overall picture for the women’s race is about what you’d expect: Petra Majdic basically crushed everyone in sight, and in fact the closest anyone really came to her was in qualification. Â After a rough start to her season, this […]
Tagged classic, Sprint, tour de ski, World CupGreat day for North America, overall. Â Fantastic races by Kershaw and Harvey and strong efforts by Freeman and Randall (for a classic sprint, not her specialty, certainly not Freeman’s). Â Newell probably isn’t thrilled with his 12th place, given how much stumbling around it sounded like he did during the semis, but it’s not a terrible […]
Tagged classic, race snapshot, Sprint, tour de ski, World CupThese race snapshot graphs are quite a bit different from usual. Â First, today’s pursuit is essentially an old style two day pursuit with the techniques reversed (skating yesterday, classic today). Â So the stage results from today include yesterday’s time (minus the bonus seconds from yesterday). Â Hence, my race snapshot graphs won’t compare today’s stage to […]
Tagged race snapshot, tour de ski, World CupHappy (Almost) New Year! Â And thanks once again to Skadi Nordic for sponsoring this week in review. Â As the Tour de Ski get’s rolling, here’s what we’ve been up to this week: We looked a bit more closely at the link between qualifying in the top ten and going on to do well in the […]
Tagged week in reviewI debated whether these snapshot graphs would be sensible for the prologue (and also some other TdS stages as well) since the race formats during the Tour are a bit odd, so comparisons to the past are fairly tenuous. Â Also, I think the prologue event is kind of dumb, but that’s just my own bias. […]
Tagged race snapshot, tour de ski, World Cup