SkiTrax and FIS are holding a fantasy World Cup contest, roughly modeled after the very popular fantasy baseball or fantasy football competitions that we all know and love. Â Basically, you pick four men and four women (plus a “bonus” man and woman, from outside the top 15 rankings from last year), and then your “team” […]
Tagged contest, fantasy skiing, fis, skitrax, World CupKris Freeman is simply the best distance skier in the US at the moment, male or female. Â In fact, he probably has been for at least the past 4 years or so. Unfortunately, that means he’s under a lot of pressure to produce quality results, medals in particular. Â That’s not terribly fair, in a cosmic […]
Tagged kris freeman, season preview, usstThis is part four in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season. Â I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly […]
Tagged andrew newell, season preview, Sprint, usstI was listening to FasterSkier’s podcast the other day and was a bit startled to here one of the participants mention me by name![1. By the way, Christopher, it’s pronounced JOR-an; like “Jordan” but with no “d”. Â My parents gave me the Scandinavian name, but not the Scandinavian pronunciation. Â And shame on you, Colin, for […]
Tagged churn, fasterskier, SprintThis is part three in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season. Â I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly […]
Tagged kikkan randall, season preview, usstFirst real races of the season are this weekend in Rybinsk and Muonio! Â So far I’ve managed a decent posting schedule along with my teaching job, but now we’re adding the task of updating (and cleaning) my results database as new races roll in. Â This is harder to automate than it may seem, mostly because […]
Tagged week in reviewI was reading FasterSkier’s profile of the Japanese World Cup skiers and a few people commented about how Japan had a good showing at World Juniors/U23s this past season. Â Naturally that got me thinking about how little I know about these guys, so I thought I’d make some graphs. First up is a simple time […]
Tagged japan, U23, WJC/U23