A commenter asked if there was a connection between my lists of improved and un-improved skiers and age. Easy enough to check, so let’s go to the tape. Here are the distance skiers: The y-axis (Improvement Index) has no units, so don’t try to interpret it. It’s just the mash-up of several ways of measuring […]
Also tagged Age, Distance, most improved, most unimproved, Sprint, women, World CupLast time we looked at some skiers who made some big jumps on the WC circuit this past season, so now it’s time to look at some folks who saw big slides in the other direction. Since there are many different ways to measure performance, I’m using a combination several metrics. The methodology is the […]
Also tagged Distance, most unimproved, womenThis week it’s the sprinter’s turn in the limelight, starting with the men. As you might imagine, there are quite a few more cheery topics when talking about North American sprinters. As before we’ll begin with a simple plot showing the number of results per race over time: The American men have seen a steady […]
Also tagged alex harvey, andrew newell, devon kershaw, len valjas, season review, simi hamilton, SprintI think most people generally have a sense for how the past World Cup season went for the North Americans. What I’m going to do over the next few posts is to simply show some data that hopefully provides some context for what you already know. I’m going to split them into four posts for […]
Also tagged alex harvey, canada, devon kershaw, Distance, kris freeman, noah hoffman, season review, USANorwegian youngster Finn Haagen Krogh had an excellent weekend of racing at the World Cup Finals in Sweden recently. Here’s a look at his distance results (using FIS points) up to this point: He was having a pretty darn good season even before this last weekend, having moved his typical race down to (or just […]
Also tagged Age, finn haagen krogh, norway, young skierAnd…..we’re done for the season!
Also tagged biathlon, mass start, race snapshot, women, World CupAnother good day for the US women; nice job ladies!
Also tagged biathlon, pursuit, race snapshot, women, World Cup