Back on Monday I posted the graph shown below and posed a question: It turns out I didn’t ask my question very clearly, because I had to keep updating the post with clarifications. Â So that’s my fault. Â Maybe this time I’ll do better. Â What I did was plot a part of the time series of […]
Tagged arianna follis, Distance, lina andersson, manuela henkel, marit bjoergen, podium, prediction, stefanie boehler, womenIn one of the articles I wrote for FasterSkier.com, someone asked a question in the comments that I thought was interesting, so I dashed off a quick answer. Â Sadly, as is common when I do something quickly, I made a mistake. Â So I need to correct the record. Commenter triguy mentioned that it would be […]
Tagged Analysis, biathlon, churn, xcFive mystery skiers, all women.  For each skier, their very next  (distance) race is a WC, OWG or WSC race.  Which of them are going to finish on the podium (top 3) in their very next race? To make things a bit more challenging, I’ve omitted the x axis labels (which is date, not age), […]
Tagged mystery skier, podium, prediction, quizI’ve talked about the amusing notion of victims and nemeses before. Â Let’s look at some extreme cases. Â Remember that a victim is someone you beat by a small margin (rather arbitrarily chosen by me to be less than or equal to ten seconds). Â A nemesis is just the reverse: someone who beats you by such […]
Tagged nemeses, rivalries, victimsI was following Andrew Gardner’s twitter feed a while back during the USSA spring meetings, and he mentioned a comment by James Southam that American courses are far easier than those in Europe. [1. I’m paraphrasing here; it was something to that effect.] That got me thinking about whether there was any way I could […]
Tagged Analysis, problem races, puzzle, skier speedHere’s what’s been cooking this week on Statistical Skier… I tried to wrap up the cross-country retirement posts, was told I forgot a few and so tacked on a post for Kristina Smigun-Vaehi. I snuck in a little cycling graph, showing the riders from this year’s Giro d’Italia who dropped out along the way. I […]
Tagged week in reviewI can’t believe I forgot about the dominant Estonian skier Kristina Smigun-Vaehi. Â For individual events (distance and sprint), her stats are amazing: three Olympic medals (2 Gold), four World Championship medals and forty-nine World Cup podiums. Â 106 of her 161 World Cup results were top ten finishes. Â She might not have as much Olympic hardware […]
Tagged kristina smigun-vaehi, retirement, retrospective