They aren’t what stat-heads like myself would choose to do “serious” stuff, but World Cup points are what makes the XC world go round. Â FIS provides a few tools for looking up athlete’s WC points here and here. Â They’re pretty decent, by their standards, allowing you to switch between Overall, Distance and Sprint points, filter […]
Tagged bar chart, visualization, World Cup, world cup pointsGreat day for Sara Studebaker in 21st! Â The results look a little shook up on the men’s side, as well as the women’s to some degree. Â Lowell Bailey had a decent result despite some dodgy shooting.
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, World CupSo US coach Chris Grover mentioned to FasterSkier.com that he thought that when Kikkan Randall qualifies in the top ten that’s a really good sign that she has a good chance to make the finals. I did this once before with an interesting quote of his, and I feel kind of bad. Â I’m not trying […]
Tagged andrew newell, chris grover, kikkan randall, quotes, SprintOne of the interesting things we can look at with sprint races is differences between the various heats themselves, rather than individual skiers. Â Interestingly, reconstructing this information, namely who was in what quarterfinal or semifinal, using just the split times took a little bit of thought. Â Not a monumental challenge, but it was a bit […]
Tagged bump chart, Davos, heats, splits, Sprint, World CupOnce again thanks to Jan at WorldofXC.com for providing the split time data for the sprint races on Sunday. Â Very different developments of heat times in this race compared to the last two sprint races. Â Let’s check out the women first: Note that these are just the raw times from the heats, so it does […]
Tagged bump chart, Davos, recap, splits, Sprint, World CupThis recap is going to be fairly short. Â I’m going to pass over Kris Freeman and Kikkan Randall, since neither had spectacular races but in neither case does it seem particularly significant to me. Â Freeman reportedly was recovering from a cold and still managed a decent, but unimpressive race. Â Randall had a legitimately bad race, […]
Tagged Davos, devon kershaw, Distance, george grey, ivan babikov, liz stephen, morgan arritola, recap, World CupIn my race recap for the Davos distance race I noted the strong performance of Masako Ishida, and pointed out what an extreme classic specialist she is. Â A certain world famous XC skiing journalist wanted to know if the conventional wisdom he’d heard was correct, that Japan’s skiers typically do better in classic skiing overall. […]
Tagged Analysis, classic, japan, R, technical