Tour de France Wrap-Up
The final installment of the 2011 Tour de France graphs, and what a fun race that was this year! Plenty of excitement (for some not so fun reasons) early on and then plenty of exciting racing towards the end. Good stuff…
As usual, you can click on them for slightly larger versions. Here’s the same graph for 2011 broken down by team: Read more
Tour de France Graphs
Rest day number two is upon us, so it’s time to update my graphs tracking the race thus far. First the standard ‘bump chart’ showing the GC picture through the first 15 stages:
And for comparison, the same graphs for all the Tour back to 2005 (click for larger version): Read more
Tour de France Attrition Rates
Fellow blogger (and, full disclosure, good friend) Cosmo kind of stirred things up a bit with post regarding attrition rates in this year’s Tour. My cycling blogging has been mostly just for fun, as I’m not much of a cycling expert, so I mostly do it to entertain those folks who enjoy mixing sports, numbers and graphs. But statistical commentary on sports draws me like a moth to a flame, so I basically have to weigh in.
At the moment, his commenters are kind of laying into him, and there are some legit criticisms there. But as with anything else on the internet, people are getting considerably more worked up over this than seems reasonable. Would data on attrition due to crashes specifically be more germane? Yep! One of his commenters went out and tried to track down that information on crashes and found that the attrition rate due to crashes does seem considerably higher this year. However, it’s important to note that information on the reason for withdrawals can’t be found in every case, so even that analysis is somewhat incomplete.
That’s not really a criticism, just an observation you can make about any attempt to answer a question using data.
Tour de France Graphs
The Tour de Carnage France is well underway. I planned to post a few graphs on Monday, the Tour’s first rest day, but a skiing post took precedence. So these graphs run through yesterday’s Stage 10.
As usual with these cycling posts I’m not going to say much. I’m just putting the graphs out there since I find them interesting and hope that others might too. Here’s the standard graph for this year’s Tour:
Each line corresponds to a single rider and all times are relative to the median rider (after that stage). And here’s the same thing broken down by team. It’s larger, so click through for the full version: Read more
Tour de France Graphs: Fancy Versions
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. I don’t think any of these work with Internet Explorer and the animated one won’t work with Firefox. You’ve been warned. Read more
Tour de France Charts
With 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 vector graphics) versions with mouse-over text and animations won’t be updated in this post. Look for those later in the week. Also, if there’s something you’re dying to see, mention it in the comments and I’ll try to oblige if I can. Read more
Tour de France Charts: Stage 17
Inspired by the slightly different charts found here, a chart of a different flavor today. At that link, Martin has wisely adjusted plots of time back for each stage by the median. 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 and ordered the teams by the current team classification. Finally, I’ve added a black line that represents the mean, or average, time back for each team. Graph is below the fold… Read more
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