It’d be nice if we could get Sara Studebaker and Laura Spector skiing fast (and shooting well) at the same time. But maybe I’m just being picky. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 4 Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 5 Women’s Sprint Related posts:
I’m a stats guy. I love numbers and data and graphs. I will happily admit that this tends to make me, shall we say, particular about all things quantitative. Some people may call it being anal; I prefer to think of it as being correct. Which is why I need to take a moment to [...] Related posts:
Now for the sprinting versions of the graphs from my previous post. First up the men: These graphs stretch back into the prehistory of sprinting, so keep that min mind. The Italian men kind of came out of the barn dominating sprinting (or whatever you want to call the “sprinting” events that existed back in [...] Related posts:
More World Cup action from my home state! Technically, I’m more from Southern Maine, and there really is a distinction, but no matter. Looks like Scott Perras had an excellent race for the Canadians! Lowell Bailey had a good, but maybe not great day. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 3 Men’s/Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU [...] Related posts:
I made a graph a while back for a post dealing with the concern in Norway about their men’s distance squad, and in a follow-up post I provided a version of the same graph for the Swedish and Russian men’s distance teams as well. I’ve decided that I kind of like this graph; it’s a [...] Related posts:
A strange discussion has suddenly broken out over at FasterSkier in response to some comments that Marit Björgen made about how she’d like be able to race the 50km distance just like the men do. A reader sent me a note asking if I’d specifically address this statement from the comments: Looking at the times [...] Related posts:
As always, it’s nice to see plenty of North Americans jaunting around Europe getting in some good racing. I returned from my travels this weekend to learn that some Americans had some strong results at the Scandinavian Cups in Estonia. Let’s take a bit of a closer look at the distance results, shall we? First [...] Related posts:
I only have the raw result this time around, so nothing fancy. Instead, we’ll just pick out some people who looked like they had some unusually good races again. There’s a lot less to say here, since it’s a lot harder to measure sprinting performance in ways that account for the strength of the field. [...] Related posts:
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 [...] Related posts:
I feel like a grade school teacher, checking off names and such, but let’s see how many folks actually showed up in Rybinsk compared to past years: I’ve plotted the number of racers and nations present in the sprint and distance events in Rybinsk, along with the corresponding averages for all other World Cup events [...] Related posts:
After some thought, I feel compelled to expand a bit on my post regarding the US National Ranking List (NRL). Actually, my thoughts on the subject apply to points lists and athlete ranking in XC skiing more generally. Ranking athletes via some numerical system can be both fun and necessary. It’s fun for skiing fans [...] Related posts:Athlete Rankings: What’s In Your Bucket? More Ranking Graphs… Gadflies & Punching Bags
More strong racing from Lowell Bailey and Sara Studebaker. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Men/Women’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 2 Women’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 5 Pursuit Related posts:
Better late than never, I suppose. As you might expect from the Rybinsk events, a lot of people ended up doing better than they usually do. The few exceptions seemed to be John Kristian Dahl, Natalia Korosteleva and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, although I’m not sure how close to top form Saarinen is at the moment. Related [...] Related posts:
So, our Inn’s Internet is giving me nothing but 105 Errors, and there doesn’t seem to be much anyone can do about it. Hence, I’m reduced to alerting you of this using my phone via 3G. (Definitely regretting not jailbreaking my phone right now.) On the other hand, the Statistical Wife and I are pleasantly [...] Related posts:
I’m heading off to ‘The Islands” for a race tomorrow, but I should still be able to get the race snapshot graphs up, albeit a bit later in the day than usual. Thanks again to Skaði Nordic for bringing you this week’s Week In Review… I mucked around with Google’s Chart API just for fun [...] Related posts:
Strong race for Sara Studebaker today and some good races from Lowell Bailey and Jay Hakkinen as well. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 3 Men’s/Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 5 Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 6 Men’s Sprint Related posts:
I care about the Rybinsk races, even if lots of other people don’t. Not surprisingly, a Russian guy won the men’s race, but I’m not sure it was the Russian most people were expecting. Also, exercise some caution with the FIS points; it appeared to be a very tactical race so everyone is pretty close [...] Related posts:
I don’t mean any disrespect by the title, there, it’s just that the Rybinsk World Cups haven’t been very well attended. I was told by a friend recently that the Canadians included as part of their WSC selection criteria the standard of “finishing in the top 20 and the top half of a World Cup [...] Related posts:
Ok, 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 [...] Related posts:
Continuing 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. [...] Related posts: