The degree to which Distributed Sprint Points sensibly pick out skiers who had large drop offs or improvements between the ’08-’09 and ’09-’10 seasons appears to be mixed. Â But for the sake of symmetry, let’s look at the unhappy end of these trends. The table below shows the male skiers with the biggest drop offs […]
Also tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, most unimproved, SprintNow that I’ve introduced Distributed Sprint Points (DSPs), an alternate measure of sprint race performance, we’ll go ahead and give it a trial run, warts and all. Â Since DSP is decidedly still in the experimental phase, take this with a hefty grain of salt. My procedure will mostly track what I did to measure the […]
Also tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, most improved, SprintAdam, over at NordicXplained, asks: “Everyone knows how well the Canadian men’s team did at the Olympics, but the question that I wanna know is how well they stacked up against other countries. Even though they didn’t win a medal, their average placing in many races surely could have been higher than traditional powerhouses like […]
Also tagged canada, olympicsA far less cheery topic than skier improvement is, well, the opposite. Â Lacking a better term, I’m sticking with “unimproved”. Â That’s not technically accurate, since I’m actually looking at skiers who went considerably slower year to year. Â But I feel bad enough pointing out trends like these, no need to add gratuitously insulting terminology to […]
Also tagged Distance, unimproved, World Cup