OPA Cup races (also known as Alpen Cup) and Scandinavian Cup races have acquired an informal reputation as a sort of “minor league” racing circuit, relative to the World Cup. One question this leads me to ask is exactly how much movement is there between these two circuits? To answer this question I took data […]
Also tagged scandinavian cup, World CupI 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 […]
Also tagged fis points, scandinavian cupSome 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 […]
Also tagged fis points, scandinavian cupThe title of this post has dramatically over-promised on the actual content. Sorry. I’ve talked a little before about race penalties. Since race penalties are specifically intended to adjust for the strength of the field, I thought it would interesting to think up some way to see how well they do that. Everything having to […]
Also tagged Analysis, scandinavian cup, World CupWith more North Americans sojourning over to Europe to participate in high-level European racing that isn’t quite World Cups, I thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at the OPA (or Alpen) Cup and Scandinavian Cup series in a bit more detail. As the name might imply, the Scandinavian Cup races are […]
Also tagged competitiveness, race penalty, scandinavian cup, supertour