A bit delayed, since I spent a goodly portion of Saturday running, and most of the entire weekend without internet. With the small fields it can be a little tough to interpret results from these events, to be sure. Particularly when the distance race was a pursuit, which often lead to artificially low FIS points […]
Also tagged Distance, men, pursuit, rybinsk, women, World CupOk, this will be my last post on WJC/U23s, I promise! As we did before with the US and Canada, and then Norway and Russia, these graphs are simply displaying each WJC or U23 result for each nation (in finishing place, not FIS points) with the median tracked in red. As usual, I’ll keep my […]
Also tagged assessment, finland, Germany, sweden, U23, WJC/U23Continuing on in the vein of my post yesterday recapping the WJC and U23 results for the last several years for the US and Canada, this post will do the same for Norway and Russia. As before, I’m plotting the finishing rank, or place, of each skier and then tracking the median result in red. […]
Also tagged assessment, norway, russia, U23, WJC/U23As always, heat time data supplied by WorldOfXC.com. Beginning with the men: Ola Vigen Hattestad went progressively slower as the day wore on, though often there are tactical reasons for that depending on the speed of your heat. And of course, he ended up second. There is also the issue of skiers switching between classic […]
Also tagged classic, jesper modin, men, otepaa, Sprint, women, World CupOnce again many thanks to Jan at WorldOfXC.com for providing the sprint split data. Clearly we need to begin with the women this week: For some reason the qualification round times seem a fair bit slower than many of the times from the rest of the day. I’ve noticed that the women’s heats do tend […]
Also tagged freestyle, kikkan randall, liberec, ola vigen hattestad, Sprint, World CupA commenter asked what would happen if we removed the bonus seconds awarded during the distance events of the Tour de Ski. Â If we add the bonuses back in we get the following results: [table id=75 /] [table id=76 /] While the actual top 12 have remained the same, the order has not. Â The women […]
Also tagged alternate ending, bonus seconds, tour de skiThese are mostly just for fun, although I suppose some lessons might be drawn from them as well. Â First up is a graph showing how the field was reduced stage by stage in both 2010 and 2011: Overall there were fewer racers this year even from the start, which is interesting. Â In both cases there […]
Also tagged tour de ski, World Cup