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Race Snapshot: IBU World Cup 1 Women
Can’t leave out the poor biathletes, now can we? Â Biathlon doesn’t have a point system like FIS points, so these will all be using raw percent back. Â If you’re familiar with these sorts of measures, you’ll notice that percent backs in biathlon are frequently quite a bit higher. For a variety of reasons, it’s harder […]
Also tagged biathlon, women, World CupRace Snapshots: Kuusamo 10/15km Freestyle
Use some caution interpreting these, due to the unusual race circumstances today. Â These graphs apply only to today’s freestyle portion of the Kuusamo races, and each skier’s percent back (and hence their FIS points) can be influenced by the race tactics on the course, since we were dealing with a pursuit-style start and people were […]
Also tagged Distance, kuusamoRace Snapshots: Kuusamo Sprint
As promised, race snapshot graphs today’s sprint races. Â First the reduced versions (top 30, plus North Americans) and the full versions are below the fold (the names on those might be a bit small; there were a lot of racers!). Updated: Bit of a mishap with some of the athlete’s names created some errors. Â Fixed […]
Also tagged kuusamo, Sprint, World CupImproved Gällivare Plots: Technique Focus
Several people have commented that my summary graphs should take into account skier’s potentially differing abilities in skating and classic. Â (We could slice up the data as thinly as we’d like: mass start vs. interval, etc. Â But that will get complicated quickly, so let’s add technique and see how it goes for now.) I pondered […]
Also tagged recap, World CupRace Snapshot: Gällivare
In the run up to the World Cup season, I had been trying to think of ways to create a single graph that would do a decent job of communicating how good each person’s race was in the context of their past results. Â I wanted something relatively simple and easy to read that would hopefully […]
Also tagged recap, World Cup