We’re picking up from where we left off last time, so go check that out to get up to speed. What happens if instead of only looking at two groups (skiers reaching the podium, skiers not reaching the podium) we get a little more sophisticated and include more information? First, let’s just look to see […]
Tagged development, Distance, podium, WJC/U23I recently received the following query from a reader: I have looked lately into the Junior Worlds results and World Cup/World Championships results of all 2010 Olympic Gold medalists and almost all of them had an outstanding careers while they raced as juniors…If our end goal is to win Olympics then we have to look […]
Tagged development, Distance, medals, podium, WJC/U23The degree to which Distributed Sprint Points sensibly pick out skiers who had large drop offs or improvements between the ’08-’09 and ’09-’10 seasons appears to be mixed. Â But for the sake of symmetry, let’s look at the unhappy end of these trends. The table below shows the male skiers with the biggest drop offs […]
Tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, men, most unimproved, SprintWhat’s have you missed this week? Â Read on and I’ll tell you… We wrapped up some of the Tour de France graphs, even the fancy animated ones. I demonstrated that there’s nothing special about the Tour de France, graphically anyway. I’ve started putting my crazy contraption, Distributed Sprint Points to good use, looking at the […]
Tagged week in reviewAnother installment looking at how athletes have faired following WJC/U23 racing. This time we’re looking at Germany, a country that gained some notoriety over the last 10-15 years for a dramatic turnaround in athlete development. Â At least, that’s what I remember the conventional wisdom being. We’ll start with just the basic graph (click through for […]
Tagged development, Distance, U23, WJCThe career retrospectives took an unintentional week off last Friday due my being distracted by the Tour. Milan who? Â Again, a skier who’s name I should probably know, but did not. Â He’s a Czech skier who’d been competing internationally since around 2000. Particularly since he looks like a fun guy. Sperl won a Bronze medal […]
Tagged milan sperl, retirement, retrospectiveI apologize again for the heavy cycling bent I’ve been on lately. Â You just can’t pass up the chance to make fun graphs like these, though. This is just your standard bumps chart for GC rank from the 2010 Giro d’Italia. Â Somewhat confusingly (to casual bike fans like me) the colors of the jerseys are […]
Tagged bump chart, cycling, giro d'italia