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, men, wild speculation, WSCSeveral women have pretty dramatically improved their distance skiing this season, and I’m particularly excited that some of them are Finns. This isn’t an exhaustive list, just the ones that I’ve noticed so far: Kylloenen is an interesting case, since she’s clearly made a jump, but her results have still been noticeably variable, perhaps even […]
Also tagged improved, World CupYou can read a short description of these graphs here. The men’s results: And the women’s results:
Also tagged classic, liberec, men, race snapshot, 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, men, 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, men, race snapshot, tour de ski