Another good day for Laura Spector! And Haley Johnson had a strong race as well, for her. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Men/Women’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 3 Men’s/Women’s Sprint Related posts:
As 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 [...] Related posts:
Now 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. [...] Related posts:
Hmmm. I might have to write a post on Lowell Bailey next week. Related posts:Race Snapshots: IBU WC 1 Men’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 3 Men’s/Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 4 Men’s Sprint Related posts:
Of course, these being competitions focusing on junior skiers, they often are used as a proxy for signaling future performance. I’ve looked at various aspects of this in the past, but there are always new ways to approach this. What I’ve done here is to take the plots from earlier today and add information regarding [...] Related posts:
World Junior and U23 Championships are just around the corner! The posts today will focus on the US and Canadian teams, subsequent posts will look at some of the other top nations. WJCs and U23s are rolled into the same week of racing, although they split up the results by age group. U23s in particular [...] Related posts:
So there was this post a while back where I looked at the oft repeated CW that Andrew Newell tends to qualify rather fast and then slip back a bit in the heats. My goal was just to see whether and to what degree this actually happens. It turns out that my attempt to tackle [...] Related posts:
The third in the series, looking at differences in performance in skating vs. classic races for particular nations. We’ve already done Japan and Italy. Now, by request, we have Norway. To avoid repeating myself, I’m going to skip much of the introduction and explanation for the methodology and graphs. Go read the Italy post if [...] Related posts:
Once again many thanks to Jan at WorldOfXC.com for providing the sprint split data. Clearly we need to begin with the women this week: For some reason the qualification round times seem a fair bit slower than many of the times from the rest of the day. I’ve noticed that the women’s heats do tend [...] Related posts:
A pretty good day for Lowell Bailey and a decent race for Laura Spector. And of course more good racing from the Berger family. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Men/Women’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 2 Men’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 2 Women’s Pursuit Related posts:
They didn’t crack into the top thirty, but the Americans had strong races for them, nonetheless. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU World Cup 1 Women Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 2 Women’s Pursuit Related posts:
What can you say, except that today is a very good day? Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: Davos WC Sprint Race Snapshot: TdS Classic Sprint Related posts:
Thanks once again to Skaði Nordic for sponsoring this week’s Week In Review. Let’s get right to it: Lots and lots of racing meant lots and lots of race snapshots: TdS mass start, TdS final climb, IBU World Cup women’s sprint and men’s mass start, IBU World Cup men’s individual and women’s individual and finally more [...] Related posts:
Honestly, I’m reluctant to wade into this topic, but since this blog is supposed to focus on the intersection of XC skiing and data, I feel like I need to say something. The USST announced their team for World Championships in Oslo, which inevitably led to a certain amount of griping about the choices made [...] Related posts:
Tough day for the North Americans, sadly. Fantastic race by Lars Berger, though. Related posts:Race Snapshots: IBU WC 1 Men’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Men/Women’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 3 Men’s/Women’s Sprint Related posts:
Continuing on from yesterday as promised, we have two rather large graphs showing the head-to-head results of some top US skiers on the domestic scene. These graphs are, well, big and to be honest I’m not particularly proud of them. I’ve been struggling with how to display the head-to-head results from a large number of [...] Related posts:
Even Magdelena Neuner has bad days, apparently. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU World Cup 1 Women Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Women’s Sprint Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Men/Women’s Pursuit Related posts:
I haven’t posted very much regarding domestic racing here in the US or Canada. There are several reasons for this: Useful and meaningful performance measures are harder to come by. FIS points start getting somewhat wishy-washy when you start having to assume that the penalty system is accurately capturing the strength of the field. Not [...] Related posts:
Fantastic day for Lowell Bailey! Also a strong race from Canadian Brendan Green. Related posts:Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Men/Women’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 2 Men’s Pursuit Race Snapshot: IBU WC 3 Distance Race Related posts:
A commenter asked what would happen if we removed the bonus seconds awarded during the distance events of the Tour de Ski. If we add the bonuses back in we get the following results: While the actual top 12 have remained the same, the order has not. The women see relatively few changes, but not [...] Related posts: