In a short piece on FasterSkier the other day, I showed a graph that examined the FIS points vs. age trends of skiers broken down by their success at WJCs or U23s. Â In it, I highlighted only the American athletes, apart from the general trends for all skiers. I thought that I’d continue with a […]
Tagged Age, canada, development, U23, WJCContinuing on from Monday’s post, we turn now to the most improved women sprinter last season. Here’s the table of the top ten most improved female sprinters on the World Cup: [table id=14] First, the familiar names (at least, familiar to me). Â Korosteleva and Ingemarsdotter are both excellent sprinters who’ve been around for at least […]
Tagged most improved, Sprint, womenThe guys at FasterSkier were kind enough (again) to post something of mine at their site. Â You can read it here. Â I’ll be following up that article with more graphs highlighting skiers from different countries over the next week or two, so stay tuned…
Tagged development, fasterskier, WJC/U23Here are the final, updated versions of the fancy, animated sprint and mountain points “graph” and the plot of riders who didn’t finish the Tour with mouse-over text added. Remember, Chrome, Safari or Opera are the best browsers to use for these. Â I don’t think any of these work with Internet Explorer and the animated […]
Tagged animation, svg, tour de franceNow that I’ve introduced Distributed Sprint Points (DSPs), an alternate measure of sprint race performance, we’ll go ahead and give it a trial run, warts and all. Â Since DSP is decidedly still in the experimental phase, take this with a hefty grain of salt. My procedure will mostly track what I did to measure the […]
Tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, men, most improved, SprintWith the final stage complete, it’s time to wrap things up with some final versions of the charts I’ve been making over the past week. Actually, this isn’t really the final post. I’ll be tinkering with some of them and posting what I come up with from time to time. Also, the fancier, SVG (scalable […]
Tagged bump chart, cycling, tour de franceCycling and the Tour de France have invaded Statistical Skier this week. Â If you’ve been tuning in here for the skiing content and find this trend distressing, you can console yourself with the fact that the Tour will end soon. Â On the other hand, I’ve enjoyed the cycling stage race graphics and so I have […]
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