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 Distance, freestyle, wild speculation, women, WSCYou can read a short description of these graphs here. The men’s results: And the women’s results:
Also tagged classic, liberec, race snapshot, women, World CupI’ve gotten requests to do this in the past, and did again this year. Nothing super complicated, we just add up all the bonus seconds earned by all the Tour de Ski finishers and add them back onto each person’s time. Obviously, some bonus seconds were earned by folks who ended up not finishing the […]
Also tagged bonus seconds, tour de ski, womenEven 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 Distance, russia, stage race, tour de skiYou 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 Distance, final climb, freestyle, race snapshot, tour de ski, women