In the run up to the World Cup season, I had been trying to think of ways to create a single graph that would do a decent job of communicating how good each person’s race was in the context of their past results. Â I wanted something relatively simple and easy to read that would hopefully […]
Tagged race snapshot, recap, World CupStatistical Skier’s Week In Review has it’s first sponsor, Skadi Nordic! Â If removing the snow and ice from the bottom of your boots is your least favorite part of skiing, I’d head over to their site and check them out, cause they’ve solved that problem. World Cup racing finally gets underway this weekend in Gällivare, […]
Tagged week in reviewI’m squeezing in the last preview post for the Canadian ski team just under the wire! For both Ivan Babikov and George Grey I’m going to focus in on the distance events. Â They both certainly do sprints in stage events like the Tour de Ski, but I think it’s fair to say they both have […]
Tagged canada, george grey, ivan babikov, season previewSince I’ve been making some graphs now and then for the folks at skidpepp.se, I’ve been paying more attention to the Swedish skiers. Â I noticed that one performance last weekend that turned some heads was Maria Rydqvist’s second place finish in the distance race in Bruksvallarna, behind Charlotte Kalla. Â Of course, everyone was quite some […]
Tagged maria rydqvist, recap, swedenContinuing with my previews (gotta get them out before Saturday!), we’ll move on to the Canadian women, or at least two of them. As has been noted elsewhere, since the retirement of both Beckie Scott and more recently, Sara Renner, the Canadian women haven’t had as much success as the men. Â Let’s look at two […]
Tagged canada, chandra crawford, daria gaiazova, season previewSo on Monday I posted some graphs that were intended to provide some context for some of the distance race results over the weekend. Â Sprinting wasn’t left out in the cold because I dislike it (although, to be fair, I’m sort of a traditionalist in this respect; I will always love distance racing more, sorry!), […]
Tagged ida sargent, kikkan randall, recap, Sprint, torin koosI thought it only fair that I give our good neighbors to the north the same treatment as I did with the USST previews. Â These will be a bit shorter on the gab, though. Â We’ll start things off with Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw. Both of these guys are probably more of a threat in […]
Tagged alex harvey, canada, devon kershaw, season preview