I’ll be the first to admit that sprinting doesn’t get as much love here at Statistical Skier. To be honest, that’s probably my subconscious at work, as I have a stronger connection to distance events I suppose. But it’s not terribly fair, so here is some World Cup sprint qualification analysis for all you sprint [...] Related posts:
I’ll be the first to admit that sprinting doesn’t get as much love here at Statistical Skier. To be honest, that’s probably my subconscious at work, as I have a stronger connection to distance events I suppose. But it’s not terribly fair, so here is some World Cup sprint qualification analysis for all you sprint [...] Related posts:
I’ll be the first to admit that sprinting doesn’t get as much love here at Statistical Skier. To be honest, that’s probably my subconscious at work, as I have a stronger connection to distance events I suppose. But it’s not terribly fair, so here is some World Cup sprint qualification analysis for all you sprint [...] Related posts:
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 [...] Related posts:
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 [...] Related posts:
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 [...] Related posts:
In 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 [...] Related posts:
In 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 [...] Related posts:
A commenter noted that it was interesting that Petra Majdic showed up as being “statistically significantly” better at longer distance races (as opposed to sprint races), although just barely. It turns out this is a good example of the statistical concept of leverage. Check out the following graph that compares skiers at each end of [...] Related posts:
Since we supposedly do statistics around here, the goal here will be to ‘statistically’ identify folks who specialize in longer distance races. By that I mean people who tend to ski better (relative to their own performance) in longer races. The fun part is to see whether the folks we single out match up with [...] Related posts:
I haven’t done one of these in a while, so just for fun… This time let’s compare two great female skiers from the 90′s (and early 00′s), Norwegian Bente Skari and Italian Stefania Belmondo. Unlike with Daehlie and Alsgaard, things are little more balanced for these two: I grabbed the 105 distance races I could [...] Related posts:
Wait, 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 [...] Related posts:
Wait, 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 [...] Related posts:
I started writing an answer to a comment to Monday’s post, but it started getting long, so I thought I’d make it a short post, instead. Basically, the question was how can the points be so different between OPA and Scandinavian Cup races when the penalty calculation methods is exactly the same. Recall that these [...] Related posts:
I started writing an answer to a comment to Monday’s post, but it started getting long, so I thought I’d make it a short post, instead. Basically, the question was how can the points be so different between OPA and Scandinavian Cup races when the penalty calculation methods is exactly the same. Recall that these [...] Related posts:
Some comments on a recent post got me curious about the FIS points awarded at OPA Cup races. Similarly to my commenters, I’d noticed that oftentimes the top skiers at an OPA Cup race would receive very low (i.e. good) points for that race, and that this often wouldn’t seem to match up well with [...] Related posts:
Some comments on a recent post got me curious about the FIS points awarded at OPA Cup races. Similarly to my commenters, I’d noticed that oftentimes the top skiers at an OPA Cup race would receive very low (i.e. good) points for that race, and that this often wouldn’t seem to match up well with [...] Related posts:
A companion post to my previous entry looking at some of the Finnish men. I’m using a sort of cohort style plot. They compare each athlete’s FIS points (similar to, but not exactly, what FIS uses for their rankings) to those of athletes who have gone on to finish in the top ten in a [...] Related posts:
A companion post to my previous entry looking at some of the Finnish men. I’m using a sort of cohort style plot. They compare each athlete’s FIS points (similar to, but not exactly, what FIS uses for their rankings) to those of athletes who have gone on to finish in the top ten in a [...] Related posts:
I can’t keep up on the enormous number of good young skiers from every nation. I have a hard enough time with just those in my own backyard, the US and Canada. So it’s fun to look at some folks from other countries that I’m not so familiar with. For instance, here are some graphs [...] Related posts: