Now that I have some athlete similarity code up and running, let’s take it for a spin, shall we? The basic idea is to pick a skier (Beckie Scott in this case) and then mine my results database for skiers who’ve had similar careers. Â This is a fairly complicated task with a lot of steps. […]
Tagged athlete similarity, beckie scott, Distance, SprintThis idea comes from a similar sort of game that baseball stat heads play. Â The idea is to match up similar athletes based upon their performances. Â In baseball, we’d look at a whole slew of statistics for some current player’s career and then scan through the historical records and find other players who had similar […]
Tagged Analysis, athlete similarity, DistanceA week on the road for me, so things have been a little slow. Â Here’s what’s been happening while I travel around to watch my friends get married… I showed a simple visualization of the men’s Olympic relay, although I made a bit of a mistake, omitting the Czech team. Â Sorry! We continued with our […]
Tagged week in reviewA late addition to the skier retirement series is German Claudia Nystad (before she married she raced under the name Claudia Kuenzel; FIS hyphenates her name, so I will too). Kuenzel-Nystad has quite a few Olympic and World Championship medals, although most of them were in relays. Â She has 8 medals (all gold and silver) […]
Tagged claudia kuenzel-nystad, retirement, retrospectiveThis is the head to head matchup that was runner up in my recent reader poll. Â No reason not to keep everyone happy by tackling this pair next! Per usual, what I’m doing is taking races where Marit Bjoergen and Justyna Kowalczyk have both participated and plotting the difference of their FIS points (distance races) […]
Tagged head to head, justyna kowalczyk, marit bjoergenThis is type of graphic that I hope to do on a semi-regular basis once the World Cup season gets rolling. Â These easily fall into the “fun” rather than “serious” category. Â If you hadn’t already guessed, I like making graphs. Â So these entries will be race summaries, but in graph form. Â They are fairly labor […]
Tagged Distance, Fun Stuff, olympics, race summary, relayMy first full month of blogging is in the books! Â I’ll be travelling a bit over the next ten days, so posting might be a little lighter than usual, but not much. Â I’ve got a bunch of stuff lined up already written… Here’s a look back at what’s been going on here this past week: […]
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