Here are the final, updated versions of the fancy, animated sprint and mountain points “graph” and the plot of riders who didn’t finish the Tour with mouse-over text added. Remember, Chrome, Safari or Opera are the best browsers to use for these. Â I don’t think any of these work with Internet Explorer and the animated […]
Tagged animation, svg, tour de franceNow that I’ve introduced Distributed Sprint Points (DSPs), an alternate measure of sprint race performance, we’ll go ahead and give it a trial run, warts and all. Â Since DSP is decidedly still in the experimental phase, take this with a hefty grain of salt. My procedure will mostly track what I did to measure the […]
Tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, men, most improved, SprintWith the final stage complete, it’s time to wrap things up with some final versions of the charts I’ve been making over the past week. Actually, this isn’t really the final post. I’ll be tinkering with some of them and posting what I come up with from time to time. Also, the fancier, SVG (scalable […]
Tagged bump chart, cycling, tour de franceCycling and the Tour de France have invaded Statistical Skier this week. Â If you’ve been tuning in here for the skiing content and find this trend distressing, you can console yourself with the fact that the Tour will end soon. Â On the other hand, I’ve enjoyed the cycling stage race graphics and so I have […]
Tagged week in reviewEarlier this week I introduced an idea I had for calculating a points-like measure for sprint racing that was applicable beyond the qualification round. Â You can go back and review the methodology here. In this post I’d like to revisit this idea and look at how these new points look when ranking athletes. Â First, I […]
Tagged Athlete Ranking, distributed sprint points, dsp, fis points, SprintJust recently the guys at FasterSkier and the Nordic Commentary Project got together for a podcast, where they discussed a range of topics in international ski racing. Â One topic that they touched upon was the fact that cross country skiing has an ever increasing number of race formats. I listened with interest to that section, […]
Tagged editorial, fis, race formatInspired by the slightly different charts found here, a chart of a different flavor today. Â At that link, Martin has wisely adjusted plots of time back for each stage by the median. Â I’ve taken that idea and plotted the time back in the GC category for each stage, but I’ve split it up by team […]
Tagged cycling, tour de france