Previously, I discussed the differences in race penalties between North America and Europe. Â Now we’ll continue with a really quick look at how race penalties have changed over time in North America. This will be really short and sweet, so here’s the graph: So clearly, this only goes back around 10 seasons (and doesn’t include […]
Tagged Analysis, fis points, race penaltyThere were only a handful of Americans (and no Canadians) who did the freestyle distance race in Beitostølen, Norway on Sunday, so we’ll cover them and Andrew Musgrave in one post. First a rough look at how each performance stacked up in terms of FIS points: By FIS points, that’s about as fast as Arritola […]
Tagged beitostølen, Distance, liz stephen, men, morgan arritola, percent back difference, recap, womenAfter taking a bit of a break from the high profile races through January, Nicole Fessel popped up again this past weekend at the OPA Cup races in Italy. I’ve noted earlier that she started this season with quite a bang, and she picked right up where she left off, winning both the sprint and […]
Tagged athlete to watch, Distance, fis points, nicole fessel, percent back, womenA reader sent me an email over the weekend regarding the discussion that’s popped up over the fact that women compete in far shorter distances than the men in cross country skiing. He suggested that looking at men’s and women’s road marathon times (running) might be interesting. I did him one better and grabbed the […]
Tagged marathon, womenContinuing on from earlier today, we’ll turn to the North American women’s results from Saturday’s classic race in Beitostølen, Norway. As before, we’ll start with just a rough look at FIS points: Once again, I’ll repeat my caution about how seriously these folks may or may not have been taking these races, having just arrived […]
Tagged beitostølen, fis points, liz stephen, morgan arritola, recap, womenA number of Americans and Canadians participated in some big FIS races in Beitostølen, Norway this past weekend. Not all the results have migrated over to the FIS site yet, so I’m just going to focus on the classic distance races from Saturday. We should keep in mind throughout that, from what I’ve read, many […]
Tagged andrew musgrave, beitostølen, Distance, fis points, ivan babikov, men, recap, simi hamiltonBiathlon’s cool in part because there’s so much more data to play with. One seemingly minor thing I’ve been struggling with is how best to graph an athlete’s overall race results and their shooting statistics on the same graph. The obvious answer of just overlaying them and including a second y axis (since shooting accuracy […]
Tagged biathlon, graphs, median percent back, shooting