Since I’m starting to accumulate a reasonable collection of heat times from World Cup sprint races, I thought it might be interesting to compare general trends between the few seasons I have data on. The biggest trends that you can typically see are the differences in tactics between the men and women. Generally what I’ve [...] Related posts:
Travel is a big issue for cross country skiers, particularly those of us living in North America. Flying back and forth to Europe can be both time consuming and exhausting for athletes. Obviously, this can have some serious effects on performance. Of course, this works both ways. Presumably it’s difficult for Europeans to travel to [...] Related posts:
In a post last week I talked about how I felt that a single early season result wasn’t necessarily a great predictor of how someone will tend to ski (on average) during the rest of the season. I feel like most people would accept that this is, in principle, generally true. Just because you pop [...] Related posts:
Following up from last time, we’re still discussing the recent USSA rule changes for qualifying for WJC/U23s. Now, it’s not like USSA has a ton of options here, but I would like to point out a few difficulties with pre-qualifying an athlete using only a single result. Being a stats guy, I always think about [...] Related posts:
As often happens, FasterSkier gifted me with a handy topic for a few posts to kill time with over the summer by publishing a summary of USSA’s new criteria for automatic qualification for WJCs/U23s. For WJCs, the FIS point cutoff has been lowered to 50 for both men and women (it used to be higher [...] Related posts:Post-WJC/U23 Development: Canada North American Race Penalties Over Time Predicting FIS Points For World Cup Races
This is just a quick note as I sift through some of the alpine skiing data. I’ve made similar plots as these for XC skiing in the past, so these are just the same idea but for the US alpine folks. First a look at the men: This is tracking the results (per race) for [...] Related posts:
This is just a quick note as I sift through some of the alpine skiing data. I’ve made similar plots as these for XC skiing in the past, so these are just the same idea but for the US alpine folks. First a look at the men: This is tracking the results (per race) for [...] Related posts:
Everyone wants to nab podiums at the World Cup level, which means everyone can be pretty fascinated with the development characteristics of those skiers who end up on the podium. Here’s yet another way to slice that. If we take the skiers who’ve attained at least one podium result at the WC level between 2006-2007 [...] Related posts:
On final note about the Giro. It’s only three years worth, but I thought it might be interesting to take a look at how Canadians have fared in the Giro (again, only since 2010): Related posts:2010 Giro d’Italia GC Plot Giro d’Italia: Those Who Didn’t Make It Giro d’Italia: Stage 21 Related posts:
One last set of graphs for this year’s Giro, first comparing it to the previous two years: And another comparing each team from this year’s Giro: Related posts:Giro d’Italia: Those Who Didn’t Make It Giro d’Italia: Rest Day 2 Giro d’Italia: Stage 21 Related posts:
Here’s the state of things, team-by-team after yesterday’s Stage 18: One thing to note (that you can’t quite see in this graph) is that this year’s course has caused slightly more of a spread in the field than the previous two. Related posts:Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Giro d’Italia – After Stage 8 Giro [...] Related posts:
Here’s the state of things, team-by-team after yesterday’s Stage 18: One thing to note (that you can’t quite see in this graph) is that this year’s course has caused slightly more of a spread in the field than the previous two. Related posts:Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Giro d’Italia – After Stage 8 Giro [...] Related posts:
Another overall comparison of the GC standings to the previous two years: Related posts:Giro d’Italia: Stage 21 Giro d’Italia – After Stage 8 Giro d’Italia: After Stage 10 Related posts:
Back to the team by team view, after Stage 15 (yesterday): Compare Movistar with Orica GreenEdge. Also, note the damage that yesterday’s stage did to several team’s top riders, e.g. Rabobank, Omega Pharma, BMC, RadioShack. Related posts:Tour de France Team-Nationality Guide Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Giro d’Italia: Stage 21 Related posts:
Another update on the overl GC standings: Things are clearly more tightly packed at the front this year, certainly compared to 2010. That said, the folks at the back are losing time at a faster rate than last year, it seems. Related posts:Tour de France Bump Chart: Stage 16 Vuelta a España Update: Stage 16 [...] Related posts:
A slightly different look at things this time, broken down by team, through Stage 10 (yesterday). This one’s a little big, so you can click on it for the full version. Related posts:Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Vuelta a España Update: Stage 16 Giro d’Italia – Rest Day 1 Related posts:
I’ve been a little distracted lately, so I haven’t been as organized with the cycling data. Also, when you only do something once a year (or so) it’s pretty shocking how much better at coding you get in a year. My cycling code was a God-Awful mess, which is being slowly improved. As usual, these [...] Related posts:
Another retiring skier that I’m only passingly familiar with, Switzerland’s Silvana Bucher. Like Vina the other day, she hasn’t raced a ton at the WC level in distance events: Or sprints: But you can see that one sprint race that stands out among the rest. Indeed, that 6th place finish was her best WC result, [...] Related posts:
Another retiring skier that I’m only passingly familiar with, Switzerland’s Silvana Bucher. Like Vina the other day, she hasn’t raced a ton at the WC level in distance events: Or sprints: But you can see that one sprint race that stands out among the rest. Indeed, that 6th place finish was her best WC result, [...] Related posts:
A few other athletes that I was less familiar with are also retiring, according to FIS, beginning with France’s Emilie Vina. Naturally, I head over to Wikipedia and discover that apparently she’s a non-commissioned officer? Huh. I wouldn’t have been surprised if she were a biathlete, I suppose, but that’s not a combination you see [...] Related posts: