Last of the distance events, this time the women who stumbled the most this season compared to last: As always, I’m graphing only one of the several metrics that are blended together to select these skiers. In particular, note that Anna Haag doesn’t look like she belongs on this list. However, several of her […]
Also tagged most unimproved, women, World CupThis is the group of men who had some of the biggest slides backwards this season, although as we’ll see it is sort of an odd collection. Unlike both of the previous most improved posts, this group of skiers seems to include some people who shouldn’t be here. Part of that is that I’m using […]
Also tagged men, most unimproved, World CupNow for the “most improved” women’s distance skiers on the World Cup circuit this season, compared to last season. As always, this is based on an amalgamation of measures, in order to include improvements in one’s average performance, as well as one’s best races. Here are the top 12: As usual, due to some […]
Also tagged Analysis, most improved, women, World CupNow that the World Cup season has wrapped up, it’s time for a series of graphs looking at who made big jumps, in either direction, this year. We’ll start with the most improved in the men’s distance events. The criteria here is sort of a blend of different measures, with an adjustment for scale, so […]
Also tagged men, most improved, World CupI couldn’t just leave Tuesday’s post without doing the same thing for the distance events. So here is another moderately curated selection of skiers who have never won an individual distance race, and yet their median result is better than 20th. Half of Skofterud’s distance races she’s placed better than 13th, but she’s never […]
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Also tagged classic, falun, mass start, men, race snapshot, women, wordl cup, world cup finalMen’s race: Women’s race:
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