While we’re waiting for the cross-country season to get under way… The alpine World Cup season kicked off this past weekend in Soelden, Austria with Giant Slalom events for both men and women. Here’s a race snapshot graph for the men’s race on Sunday: American Ted Ligety won by a rather impressive margin. Apparently, that […]
Also tagged alpine, giant slalom, soelden, ted ligety, women, World CupWell, ok, not ever. Â Just over the past 20 seasons or so. There are all sorts of different ways we could measure this. Â First, some ground rules: I’m only going to look at actual World Cup races, no Olympics or World Championships. Â I’m also excluding Tour de Ski events because these are my rules, so […]
Also tagged best season, Distance, women, World CupAs promised from last time, here we have the detailed development plots for sprinting. First the men: And the women:
Also tagged development, Sprint, women, World CupAs promised from last time, I’m going to show you the un-aggregated data from Tuesday’s plots. This means we’re going to have some big graphs, bigger than I typically think is useful, but no matter. I’ve plotted FIS points versus age for each of the male and female skiers with a podium result in a […]
Also tagged development, Distance, women, World CupI happened to be thinking about visualizations of athlete development recently, and in the process cooked up the following graph: What I’ve done here is to take the podium finishers in major international events for the past five seasons and recorded each person’s age when they received their first (individual) WC/OWG/WSC start, when they scored […]
Also tagged development, Distance, Sprint, women, World CupThis post is somewhat of a teaser trailer for the sorts of things we can do once we have a complete record of major international ski results stretching back to the 70’s. A natural and possibly controversial question is whether the World Cup field has become more or less competitive over time. Â Intuitively, I think […]
Also tagged classic, history, interval start, World CupSince the interviews on the FIS websites is one of my main sources of post topics during the off season, we’ll continue in that vein with one from a while back with Øystein Pettersen. In it, he talks about how his focus this season is (unsurprisingly) the classic sprint at World Championships. Pettersen has been […]
Also tagged norway, oeysein pettersen, Sprint, WSC