Bjoern Daehlie vs Thomas Alsgaard
The poll on the right is now closed. Marit vs Justyna was in the running for a while, but Daehlie vs Alsgaard eventually pulled away for a clear win.
Don’t worry if the matchup you voted for didn’t win this time around, we’ll have another round of voting most likely in a few days.
The head-to-head matchup for Daehlie and Alsgaard is below the fold…
? vs ?: You Decide
Last week I posted a short item looking at how Bjoern Daehlie and Vladimir Smirnov fared against each other, head to head. Here’s a little reminder of the sort of fun this entails:
I don’t know about you, but I thought that was pretty fun, so I figured I’d do some more.
But who? That’s where you come in! There’s a poll up in the right sidebar. Vote for the pair you want to see face off in a statistical grudge match. The poll will remain open for a week…
Head-to-Head
Ranking athletes based on FIS points, or some other measure, is relatively easy. Sometimes rankings are fun, because they give sports nuts something to argue about. Sometimes, however, things devolve into annoying arguments about the specific measure you’re using to rank the athletes with.
Any such measure has flaws, and FIS points are no different. So if we want to compare two athletes, what’s the gold standard metric to use? The most unequivocal measure is simply their head to head results. That’s easy enough to do if you only want to compare two skiers at a time, but what if we wanted to think bigger? Read more
Daehlie vs. Smirnov
Bjoern Daehlie (NOR) is generally considered one of the greatest male skiers in history (or even the greatest). He raced during much of the 90′s until his career was cut short by a rollerskiing accident in which he injured his back. One of his biggest competitors during this time was Vladimir Smirnov (SOV, KAZ). Which one was really faster? Read more
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