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Trends in Age and Ski Performance: A Second Look by Ella DeWolf and Andrew Siegel
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Trends in Age and Ski Performance: A Second Look by Ella DeWolf and Andrew Siegel

FasterSkierApril 25, 2022

This article was submitted by a reader. To pitch a story or article to FasterSkier, reach out to info@fasterskier.com. In 2010, FasterSkier published an article titled “Analysis: Performance and Age”, written by Joran Elias, or as he is otherwise known, “The Statistical Skier.”  The piece attempted to parse the relationship between age and performance by comparing the ages of some of the world’s top skiers to their FIS points in a given year.  Elias was...

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The Devon Kershaw Show: Slinging Stats with the Statistical Skier
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The Devon Kershaw Show: Slinging Stats with the Statistical Skier

FasterSkierFebruary 5, 2020

  This week, we re-posted a great piece from the Statistical Skier (Joran Elias). Before jumping into this episode, it’s worth taking some time to digest some of the findings. He wrote the piece in response to a podcast we posted after the classic sprint in Oberstdorf, Germany. In that sprint, Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo had an astounding qualifier. In the podcast following the race, we discussed Klæbo’performance and the time-back to some skiers in...

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Nordic Nation: Joran Elias is the Statistical Skier
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Nordic Nation: Joran Elias is the Statistical Skier

Jason AlbertOctober 27, 2017

statisticalskier.com (which is more of a blog that has not been updated in awhile) and Gebhardt sportsmanship award his senior year in 2001 (and noted on his blog that “Graduate school taught me many things, among them that I hate academia and that I love wrangling data. Given the choice between wrangling awesome data and making tons of money, I’ll choose the former.  Hence this website.” Sport is rife with those trying to understand the winning,...

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