Continuing on from last time, we take a look at male long distance specialists. Recall I’m being all “fancy” here and using a fairly sophisticated modeling technique to identify skiers who tended to have better major international results at longer distances. If you’re familiar with any statistics, you can think of it as an extension […]
Also tagged Distance, menIn alpine racing, that is! Fooled you, didn’t I? Like I said before, I’m not going to make a habit of posting about alpine racing, but since the season opener went fairly well for the US, I thought I might as well. So here are two race snapshot graphs, similar to those I’ve been making […]
Also tagged alpineWait, what? Alpine skiing? Yep. I’ve got 18 seasons of World Cup, Olympic and World Championship alpine results. Not nearly as extensive as my XC results, but it’s interesting data nonetheless. As with any new set of data, you spend a bit of time just poking around looking at stuff. Today I’m going to share […]
Also tagged alpineAs promised from last time, a quick look at some similar data broken down by race length. I’ve filtered out the occasional “strange” race length, to focus on just the standard 5, 10, 15, 30 and 50 kilometer distances. The metric is the same: the median number of skiers within a fixed percent of the […]
Also tagged competitiveness, Distance, field strengthI received an email recently asking about field strength for the men’s and women’s WC fields, particularly as it applies to mass start races. Lately we’ve seen the men’s field engage in a fair bit of pack skiing, whereas the women’s field strings out more quickly. First, I want to dispatch with a common bit […]
Also tagged charlotte kalla, competitiveness, field strength, justyna kowalczyk, marit bjoergen, men vs women, therese johaugOn various occasions I have looked at FIS point race penalties, in a very general, roundabout way.  Most recently, I looked at whether the FIS points you get in a non-World Cup race accurately reflect what you would have scored if you had raced in a World Cup race. The answer appeared to be: kind of.  At […]
Also tagged fis points, penalty, predictionThe title of this post has dramatically over-promised on the actual content. Â Sorry. I’ve talked a little before about race penalties. Â Since race penalties are specifically intended to adjust for the strength of the field, I thought it would interesting to think up some way to see how well they do that. Everything having to […]
Also tagged Analysis, opa cup, scandinavian cup