I’ve fussed in the past about the weaknesses of FIS points in distance events, but they really are quite useful. Â Sprint events, however, just don’t have an equivalently simple and useful numerical summary. Â I’ve resorted to using the final finishing rank (i.e. what place you came in, after the elimination rounds), but I’ve never been […]
Tagged Analysis, Athlete Ranking, Sprint, technicalSo I decided that updating these every day would get tedious. Â Here’s the standard bumps chart after stage 14 and the corresponding average speed bumps chart is below the fold:
Tagged bump chart, cycling, tour de franceNow that I’m back from travelling for a bit (but only for a bit) things were a little more busy this week at Statistical Skier. I debuted an interesting way to mine skiing results data to search for skiers with similar careers and used it to look at “similar” skiers to Beckie Scott. I reproduced […]
Tagged week in reviewCommenter ryank asks if I can color code the lines for each rider according to their team. Â I can, but it doesn’t lead to a great looking plot. Â The reason is that there are just way too many teams and distinguishing that many colors just isn’t pleasant. But I’m nothing if not responsive to my […]
Tagged bump chart, cycling, tour de franceFirst off, many thanks to Cosmo for the shout out on Twitter. Â My traffic today will be much larger than usual. Â Updated charts after today’s stage (and some new stuff too) below the fold…
Tagged bump chart, tour de franceThanks to NordicXplained I’ve been alerted to several more athletes retiring after the 2009-2010 season. Â These next three may be somewhat less famous than the other skiers I profiled, but that doesn’t make them less important or less interesting! Â For instance…
Tagged retirement, reto burgermeister, retrospective(Updated with results from today’s stage.) A few years ago I saw that someone had made some bump charts based on Tour de France results. Â (I actually was alerted to them via Junk Charts). Â Brilliant! Â Sadly, it hasn’t seemed to catch on, as I haven’t seen these sort of graphs floating around much since then. […]
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