As before, we’re looking at the change in the average of a skier’s best five distance races (by FIS points) from the ’08-’09 to the ’09-’10 season. Â You must have raced in at least five major international events (WC, WSC, or OWG) to be considered. Here’s the table of the ten most improved women: [table […]
Tagged Distance, most improved, womenLast week I posted a short item looking at how Bjoern Daehlie and Vladimir Smirnov fared against each other, head to head. Â Here’s a little reminder of the sort of fun this entails: I don’t know about you, but I thought that was pretty fun, so I figured I’d do some more. But who? Â That’s […]
Tagged head to head, pollA lot of the stuff I’ve done so far on this site looks at data over fairly long periods of time. Â Let’s switch things up and look only at the previous two World Cup seasons. Â Awards for most improved skiers have a special place in my heart due to my own skiing career, which had […]
Tagged awards, Distance, most improvedA big hello to all the visitors I’ve had over the past week from nensa.net and fasterskier.com (and an super big thanks to those guys for linking to me!). Â And an extra special hello from the individual who landed here via a Google search for “petter northug sexy”. Â Can’t argue with you there, now can […]
Welcome to Statistical Skier! I’ve somehow managed to amass a fairly impressive database of international skiing results (what can I say, I really like data) and cross-country skiing has been a huge part of my life. Â I wrote a few articles[1. I’ve reposted them in the preceding posts.] for FasterSkier.com this spring exploring some of […]