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{ Monthly Archives } October 2010

Best Young Distance Skiers: 2009-2010

“Young” is a relative term, of course, which becomes clearer to me with each passing year.  But there are successful cross-country skiers over quite a wide age range, so it might be fun to focus in on some of the younger ones.  They are likely the names we’ll be seeing over and over down the […]

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Week In Review: Sat Oct 16th

Clearly, I was a bit distracted yesterday, so the week in review is a bit delayed. My little guessing game this week was a bit too hard, I think.  The answers are posted here. We looked at trends over time in variability by athlete, comparing cross-country to biathlon, at the request of a commenter. Finally, […]

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Guess The Medalists: Answers Revealed

Well I guess that quiz wasn’t quite as popular.  I suppose it was a bit harder than I thought. In any case, the race in question was the women’s pursuit at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics.  That means the top five was Beckie Scott – Mystery Skier D Katerina Neumannova – Mystery Skier C Viola […]

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Biathlon and Cross Country Volatility Trends

A commenter asked about whether I could take the data from this post and look at trends over time.  The answer, of course, if yes! The statistic of interest here is median absolute deviation (MAD), which is a measure of variability.  In this case, we’re calculating a MAD value for each skier and each season […]

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Guess The Medalists!

Another guessing game, this one based on a misunderstanding of a previous one.  This time, I’ve graphed FIS points vs. date for five skiers up to an Olympic race where they will all race against each other and finish in the top five.  Your job is to identify the medalists and for bonus points the […]

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Week In Review: Friday Oct 8th

The week in brief: A quick post about how much more volatile biathlon racing is than XC, due to the influence of shooting, of course.  I probably didn’t explain the actual statistics very clearly in that post, so if you found it confusing, check out the comments.  Also, I’ll follow up on commenter Bolle’s question […]

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Aging Ski Teams: Poland and Germany

Can you name a Polish men’s cross country ski racer?  Hmmm.  Poland has certainly been a one woman show of late, thanks to Justyna Kowalczyk. Which makes the following graph (a continuation of the graphs in this post) not terribly surprising: So here are some Polish men for you: Janusz Krezelok and Maciej Kreczmer.  Who […]

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