First real races of the season are this weekend in Rybinsk and Muonio! Â So far I’ve managed a decent posting schedule along with my teaching job, but now we’re adding the task of updating (and cleaning) my results database as new races roll in. Â This is harder to automate than it may seem, mostly because […]
Tagged week in reviewI was reading FasterSkier’s profile of the Japanese World Cup skiers and a few people commented about how Japan had a good showing at World Juniors/U23s this past season. Â Naturally that got me thinking about how little I know about these guys, so I thought I’d make some graphs. First up is a simple time […]
Tagged japan, U23, WJC/U23This is part two in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season. Â I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly […]
Tagged noah hoffman, season preview, simi hamilton, usstThis is part one in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season. Â I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly […]
Tagged liz stephen, morgan arritola, season preview, usstYou may have noticed some changes in these parts of the Interwebs over the last few days. Â Firstly, Statistical Skier has an awesome new logo, designed by my good friend (and very talented in all things web-related) Cosmo. Â He also happens to be responsible for the best professional cycling blog in existence. If you landed […]
Tagged week in reviewOne really simple question that occurred to me while playing with all this skiing data is, How many races do these athletes actually do? Now, I can’t really answer that completely, since I don’t have every single cross country ski race in existence in my database. Â But what I’m really getting at is the notion […]
Tagged Distance, participation rates, Sprint, World CupThis is the sprinting version of my earlier post looking at some of the best young distance skiers on the World Cup circuit last season. Â The methodology here is basically the same. Â I’ve set an age cutoff of 24, I’m only considering skiers who did at least four major international (i.e. WC, OWG, TDS) sprint […]
Tagged best young skier, Sprint, xc