The degree to which Distributed Sprint Points sensibly pick out skiers who had large drop offs or improvements between the ’08-’09 and ’09-’10 seasons appears to be mixed. Â But for the sake of symmetry, let’s look at the unhappy end of these trends. The table below shows the male skiers with the biggest drop offs […]
Tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, men, most unimproved, SprintContinuing on from Monday’s post, we turn now to the most improved women sprinter last season. Here’s the table of the top ten most improved female sprinters on the World Cup: [table id=14] First, the familiar names (at least, familiar to me). Â Korosteleva and Ingemarsdotter are both excellent sprinters who’ve been around for at least […]
Tagged most improved, Sprint, womenThe guys at FasterSkier were kind enough (again) to post something of mine at their site. Â You can read it here. Â I’ll be following up that article with more graphs highlighting skiers from different countries over the next week or two, so stay tuned…
Tagged development, fasterskier, WJC/U23Now that I’ve introduced Distributed Sprint Points (DSPs), an alternate measure of sprint race performance, we’ll go ahead and give it a trial run, warts and all. Â Since DSP is decidedly still in the experimental phase, take this with a hefty grain of salt. My procedure will mostly track what I did to measure the […]
Tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, men, most improved, SprintEarlier this week I introduced an idea I had for calculating a points-like measure for sprint racing that was applicable beyond the qualification round. Â You can go back and review the methodology here. In this post I’d like to revisit this idea and look at how these new points look when ranking athletes. Â First, I […]
Tagged Athlete Ranking, distributed sprint points, dsp, fis points, SprintJust recently the guys at FasterSkier and the Nordic Commentary Project got together for a podcast, where they discussed a range of topics in international ski racing. Â One topic that they touched upon was the fact that cross country skiing has an ever increasing number of race formats. I listened with interest to that section, […]
Tagged editorial, fis, race formatAdam, over at NordicXplained, asks: “Everyone knows how well the Canadian men’s team did at the Olympics, but the question that I wanna know is how well they stacked up against other countries. Even though they didn’t win a medal, their average placing in many races surely could have been higher than traditional powerhouses like […]
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