We’re picking up from where we left off last time, so go check that out to get up to speed. What happens if instead of only looking at two groups (skiers reaching the podium, skiers not reaching the podium) we get a little more sophisticated and include more information? First, let’s just look to see […]
Also tagged development, podium, WJC/U23I recently received the following query from a reader: I have looked lately into the Junior Worlds results and World Cup/World Championships results of all 2010 Olympic Gold medalists and almost all of them had an outstanding careers while they raced as juniors…If our end goal is to win Olympics then we have to look […]
Also tagged development, medals, podium, WJC/U23Another installment looking at how athletes have faired following WJC/U23 racing. This time we’re looking at Germany, a country that gained some notoriety over the last 10-15 years for a dramatic turnaround in athlete development. Â At least, that’s what I remember the conventional wisdom being. We’ll start with just the basic graph (click through for […]
Also tagged development, U23, WJCNow that I have some athlete similarity code up and running, let’s take it for a spin, shall we? The basic idea is to pick a skier (Beckie Scott in this case) and then mine my results database for skiers who’ve had similar careers. Â This is a fairly complicated task with a lot of steps. […]
Also tagged athlete similarity, beckie scott, SprintThis idea comes from a similar sort of game that baseball stat heads play. Â The idea is to match up similar athletes based upon their performances. Â In baseball, we’d look at a whole slew of statistics for some current player’s career and then scan through the historical records and find other players who had similar […]
Also tagged Analysis, athlete similarityThis is type of graphic that I hope to do on a semi-regular basis once the World Cup season gets rolling. Â These easily fall into the “fun” rather than “serious” category. Â If you hadn’t already guessed, I like making graphs. Â So these entries will be race summaries, but in graph form. Â They are fairly labor […]
Also tagged Fun Stuff, olympics, race summary, relayWatching Devon Kershaw’s (CAN) amazing race in the Olympic 50k this past season was both thrilling and a bit heartbreaking. Â There’s something of a reality distortion field that takes hold when the Olympics roll around that elevate the top three positions in a cross-country race to near mythic levels. This is at least slightly bizarre, […]
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