This post appeared on FasterSkier several months ago, but I never posted it here, I don’t think. With World Juniors and U23s wrapping up, it seemed relevant. I edited the text slightly so it will differ somewhat from the original version. These graphs do not include this year’s WJC results or any results from the […]
Also tagged Age, Analysis, Distance, selection bias, US Skiing, WJC/U23Just a quick follow up to my earlier post examining some of the North American men in today’s U23 pursuit, this time for the women. I’ll just focus on three ladies: Sadie Bjornsen, Caitlin Patterson and Alysson Marshall. Here’s the graph for Bjornsen: Today’s race (blue) seems neither much better nor much worse than she’s […]
Also tagged alysson marshal, caitlin patterson, percent back difference, pursuit, sadie bjornsen, womenAs before, with the U23 racers we typically have more data to work with, since these folks have generally been around longer and so are likely to have raced against each other more often. We’ll continue using the percent back difference plots, that examine how a particular skier has fared against each of their competitors […]
Also tagged alex harvey, andrew musgrave, noah hoffman, percent back difference, pursuitI’ve been swamped with grading this week, so I feel a little bad about not posting anything about World Juniors specifically. I’ll try to put something together over the weekend. But these percent back difference plots are pretty easy to pump out for the U23s, since they tend to have a bit more racing behind […]
Also tagged andrew musgrave, Distance, freestyle, kevin sandau, noah hoffman, percent backToday’s U23 races in Estonia resulted in victories for some talented young skiers, Russia’s Evgeniy Belov and Finland’s Krista Lahteenmaki. In both cases their wins were fairly convincing, with Belov distancing himself from second place by 16 seconds and Lahteemaki crushed the women’s field by a full minute. One of the difficulties in gauging performance […]
Also tagged Distance, evgeniy belov, freestyle, krista lahteenmaki, percent backAs before, we can also look at how the results at WJCs and U23s for different nations match up with each athlete’s future performance in major international competitions. These graphs are constructed in the same manner. For each athlete in the graph I scored their future results in all OWG, WSC, WC or TDS races […]
Also tagged preview, WJC/U23Now it’s time to take a look at some of the bigger nations track records at World Junior Championships and U23s. The graphs will be very similar to the ones I used in my post looking at the USA and Canada. I’m only going to look at results for Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Germany. […]
Also tagged preview, WJC/U23