My real job started up again this week, so there aren’t going to be very many 5-6 post’s per week happening for a while… On Monday I shared some summary statistics on a whole bunch of skiers showing how often they finishing in the top 3, top 5, etc. over their entire careers. The Vuelta […]
Tagged week in reviewGerman biathlete Kati Wilhelm (sporting some delightful red hair, I might add) is the last (finally!) in my list of retiring athletes to cover. Â That Wikipedia link tells me that she was actually dubbed “Little Red Riding Hood” by the German press due to both her hair and a red hat she wore for all […]
Tagged biathlon, kati wilhelm, retirement, retrospectiveCurious what people have been talking about in the comments section on FasterSkier.com lately ?  Maybe you are, but too scared to look?  I’ve got a solution for you. Or maybe you’re one of those people who would rather anonymously mock anonymous FasterSkier commenters, in which case this might make your mockery more time efficient, which […]
Tagged comments, fasterskier, word cloudThere are two somewhat different ways in which you could be considered a skating or classic specialist. Â First, you can be noticeably better at one technique than the other. Â Second, you could just only do races of one technique or the other. These two situations might overlap, or they might not. Â In any case, they […]
Tagged Distance, specialization, techniqueJust a quick post to toss up the final GC bump charts for the Vuelta. Â See here for an explanation of these plots.
Tagged bump chart, cycling, vuelta a espanaNo pretty pictures this time, folks, sorry! Â Instead a couple of regular old sortable tables. Â No grand lesson here, just a simple question: how often can the best skiers in the world ski fast enough to finish in the top 3? Â The top 10? Â And so on. Â (I apologize that some of the column headers […]
Here’s what’s been happening at Statistical Skier this week: There’s another doping story in the news, providing plenty of red meat for commentary. Â I humbly contributed some graphs of Pankratov’s results over the years, which hopefully provides some context for his ability level and career. Yeah, there’s some big bike race not in France still […]
Tagged week in review