Like last time a look at the performance of skiers from different nations in this year’s TdS and last year’s. Â As always, click through for full versions, as these are somewhat large: Again, apologies if your favorite country isn’t shown. The Russian men actually seem to be doing about the same, with a handful of […]
Also tagged bump chart, men, recap, tour de skiAs expected, Stage 6 saw quite a bit of movement (as well as skiers abandoning due to illness): A couple of the men are really quite a ways off the back; I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw some of them pack it in. Â Stage 6 created a lot more “clumpiness” with the men, although […]
Also tagged bump chart, Distance, men, stage, tour de ski, World CupContinuing on from my last post on North American distance skiers, let’s jump right in with the sprinters, starting with the men: No fancy metrics here, just what place people finished in. Â Once again, red is this season, blue is last year’s Olympics. Â Alex Harvey’s sprint race in Kuusamo was unusually good for him. Â Simi […]
Also tagged men, midseason, review, Sprint, World CupWith the first period of WC racing in the books and the next one just around the corner, I’m going to look back at the results of the North American skiers so far this season. Â The theme of this post is context and expectations. One of the reasons that I started this blog was that […]
Also tagged canada, Distance, median, men, midseason, percent back, review, USAMy post on the differing performance of Japanese skiers by technique (classic vs. freestyle) got a lot of positive responses and a few requests that I use the same methods on some other countries. Â First up is Italy. I’ve tweaked and refined my model a fair bit, hopefully for the better. Â The basic idea is […]
Also tagged Analysis, Distance, italy, men, Sprint, technical, technique preferenceJust as I did yesterday, let’s take a closer look at the results form Saturday’s World Cup mass start race in La Clusaz, France, this time focusing on the North Americans. Â As I discussed yesterday, we’re going to use percent-back difference plots from mass start or pursuit races to evaluate each skier’s race, since the […]
Also tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, recap, USA, World CupSaturday was the first long mass start race of the World Cup season in La Clusaz, France, and along with mass start races come difficulties in measuring performance in a sensible manner. Â The women’s field didn’t help matters by having the top three ski away from the field. So you end up with some odd […]
Also tagged curdin perl, daniel rickardsson, Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, riitta-liisa roponen, therese johaug, World Cup