An old Dartmouth teammate of mine contacted me recently and asked if I’d be interested in looking at some triathlon data. Â He has some ulterior motives here, as his sister is a very good triathlete. Â Since he volunteered to gather the data himself (I believe from triathlon.org mostly) and send it to me, I just […]
Tagged Analysis, R, triathlonThere’s been some commentary over the last several years remarking that the Norwegian men, usually quite dominant, have been struggling to crush their competitors into tiny little pieces. Â From the perspective of US skiing fans that might seem absurd, but for better or for worse, Norway has exceedingly high expectations. It occurred to me, though, […]
Tagged Distance, men, norway, trendsAs promised from long ago, we have the General Classification bumps plots for the first nine stages of the Vuelta a España. Both versions, all together and split by team are below the fold. Don’t worry, more skiing content is in the works for the rest of this week…
Tagged bump chart, cycling, vuelta a espanaHere’s what’s been cooking on the site this week: We played a fun little guessing game, in which I asked you to predict which of five skiers would land on the podium in their very next race. Â The answers were revealed today, here. I veered off into some running data, looking at the relationship between […]
Tagged week in reviewBack on Monday I posted the graph shown below and posed a question: It turns out I didn’t ask my question very clearly, because I had to keep updating the post with clarifications. Â So that’s my fault. Â Maybe this time I’ll do better. Â What I did was plot a part of the time series of […]
Tagged arianna follis, Distance, lina andersson, manuela henkel, marit bjoergen, podium, prediction, stefanie boehler, womenI’ve mentioned before that one of the reasons I enjoy writing posts about skiing is that I learn stuff about my sport. Â Writing up a career retrospective post for German biathlete Simone Hauswald was one of those experiences. Simone Hauswald has competed internationally since 2000-2001, although she only did a handful of World Cups until […]
Tagged biathlon, retirement, retrospective, simone hauswaldIn one of the articles I wrote for FasterSkier.com, someone asked a question in the comments that I thought was interesting, so I dashed off a quick answer. Â Sadly, as is common when I do something quickly, I made a mistake. Â So I need to correct the record. Commenter triguy mentioned that it would be […]
Tagged Analysis, biathlon, churn, xc