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Handicapping WSC 10/15km Freestyle
I haven’t had as much time to pour into longer projects for posts this winter, so I really just slapped this together very quickly. I won’t get into too many of the technical details, but basically this is the result of a simple model that looks at people’s results given the length, technique and type […]
Also tagged freestyle, men, wild speculation, women, WSCRussian Men’s Tour Performances
Even without the somewhat dramatic ending, it seemed to me that the Russian men had a fairly strong Tour showing, and a quick graph seems to confirm this: Legkov seemed to have sort of plateaued over the previous 2-3 seasons, but so far appears dramatically improved overall. Vylegzhanin had a generally off year (for him) […]
Also tagged men, russia, stage race, tour de skiRace Snapshot: Tour de Ski Hill Climb
You can read a brief explanation of these graphs here. One further note: these are based on the results for just today’s stage. Not the times reported on the FIS website (which are silly and meaningless), and not the times for just the hill climb portion of the course (which is interesting, but was sort […]
Also tagged final climb, freestyle, men, race snapshot, tour de ski, womenRace Snapshot: Tour de Ski 10/15km Classic Mass Start
You can read a brief description of these graphs here. Men’s race: Women’s race:
Also tagged classic, mass start, men, race snapshot, tour de ski, women, World CupRace Snapshot: Tour de Ski 3/5km Classic
See here for a brief explanation of these graphs. Men’s race: Women’s race:
Also tagged classic, men, tour de ski, women, World Cup