Marit Bjørgen pretty much wiped the floor with folks last year in distance events: As a stats guy, when I see extreme events I tend not to expect them to repeat themselves. The general principle here is called regression to the mean. Extreme events are just unlikely, so it doesn’t make sense to expect them […]
Also tagged bjoern daehlie, marit bjoergen, mathias fredricksson, rene sommerfeldt, vladimir smirnovI noticed an interesting tidbit in a FasterSkier article the other day previewing today’s men’s 15km classic race. Towards the end, it mentioned that “Bauer also often does better in his first event in a major event.” Obviously, Bauer had a pretty bad race today, his first of the event, but that doesn’t mean he […]
Also tagged owg, trend, WSCNow for some of the folks across the pond. Â I’m less familiar with a lot of the European racers, so who I focus on will be largely dictated by what stands out to me in the data (or you can drop me a line if you think there’s someone I should put under the microscope!), […]
Also tagged axel teichmann, maria rydqvist, mia eriksson, petr sedov, pietro piller cottrer, recap, robin duvillard, sami jauhojaervi, silvana bucher, sjur roethe, tobias angerer, vincent vittoz, World Cup