I haven’t posted anything looking at biathlon for a while, so… Since biathlon has had much more consistent race formats over the years and since we don’t need to split up the data by technique, we should be able to get a clearer picture of any trends on the gun-happy side of things. The graph [...] Related posts:
Following up from last time, we’ll look a little more closely at the individual trends among some of the top Swedish women in distance and sprint events. First the distance skiers (click through for a larger version): Not surprisingly, Charlotte Kalla is generally the top performer here. But notice that there’s a bit of a [...] Related posts:
Reading the recent interview with Rikard Grip, the Swedish women’s coach got me thinking about how they’ve fared recently. From a very broad perspective for the whole team, we have the following in distance events: Clearly their depth has greatly improved, as evidenced by the dramatic rise in the number of top 30 results per [...] Related posts:
Kris Freeman and Kikkan Randall have been basically the top US skiers for quite some time now. (I’m sort of brushing Andrew Newell under the rug here, mostly just due to time contraints. I’ll do a follow up on him next week.) Freeman has been more or less unquestionably the best US male distance skier [...] Related posts:Victims & Nemeses: Kris Freeman Is Qualifying In The Top Ten A Good Sign For Kikkan? Top 10 Qualification vs. Making The Final
Since the interviews on the FIS websites is one of my main sources of post topics during the off season, we’ll continue in that vein with one from a while back with Øystein Pettersen. In it, he talks about how his focus this season is (unsurprisingly) the classic sprint at World Championships. Pettersen has been [...] Related posts:
Continuing with my summer reading of XC news, I again perused an one of FIS’s short interviews, this time with Switzerland’s Laurien Van der Graaff. Unlike Masako Ishida, whom we considered earlier this week, Van der Graaff is a sprint specialist, and a freestyle sprint specialist at that. Van der Graaff really did have a [...] Related posts:
I was reading FIS’s interview with Japan’s Masako Ishida with interest, because I’ve really been rooting for her to pull off some strong results. In the interview, she mentions that some of her goals for next season include increasing her presence in the top 5, and in particular making the jump up to some podium [...] Related posts:
When I started this whole Statistical Skier thing a little over two years ago, I had a very minimal, but very strict, standard for how I wanted the site to run: I absolutely had to stick to my posting schedule. Even if that meant putting up a post that was little more than a cursory [...] Related posts:
Kikkan Randall, the reigning women’s World Cup sprint champion, obviously had a pretty darn good season last year. How does it stack up against some of the best sprint seasons put together since 2005-2006? The first thing that stood out to me is that if you rank the best women’s sprint seasons, Randall participated in [...] Related posts:
A few notes about this data. The website that I scrape these results from isn’t, shall we say, the most consistent when it comes to the spelling of athlete names, or even their teams. That can make it difficult to slice the data along those dimensions, since it requires a fair bit of work adjusting [...] Related posts:
The final version of the 2012 Tour graph by team: Related posts:Tour de France – Stage 4 Tour de France: Stage 10 Tour de France: Stage 15 Related posts:
The final versions of the Tour de France graphs, first up the comparison to previous years: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 More Tour de France Data Visualizations Tour de France – Stage 2 Related posts:
Heading into the final weekend of the Tour, here’s how the teams compare: I’ll try to do some wrap up posts with some different looks at the data next week once the Tour is over. Related posts:Tour de France Graphs Tour de France – Stage 2 Tour de France: Stage 9 Related posts:
Heading into the final weekend of the Tour, here’s how the teams compare: I’ll try to do some wrap up posts with some different looks at the data next week once the Tour is over. Related posts:Tour de France – Stage 2 Tour de France – Stage 4 Tour de France: Stage 9 Related posts:
Another conveniently placed rest day for another Tour update. Since this is a Tuesday, we’re comparing this year’s Tour to previous years, through stage 15: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Bump Chart: Stage 16 Tour de France Graphs Related posts:
It’s Thursday, so that means this graph is broken down by team, just for the 2012 Tour: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Tour de France – Stage 2 Related posts:
Another Tour update, conveniently coinciding with a rest day: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Bump Chart: Stage 16 Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Related posts:
This time we’ll look at the Tour results so far by team (click for larger version): Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Tour de France Graphs Related posts:
Another bout of cycling fandom will keep us busy for a bit this July. Obviously, as of last night we’ve only had a handful of stages, but unlike with the Giro I have a bit more historical data to compare it do. I’m only going to do a handful of types of graphs for the [...] Related posts:
By request, we’re looking at how the length of World Cup sprints has changed over time. Specifically, since the length in time of the effort is really more meaningful than the length of the course in terms of distance, that’s what we’ll consider. So the following graph shows the average of the top five qualification [...] Related posts: