First off, many thanks to Cosmo for the shout out on Twitter. Â My traffic today will be much larger than usual. Â Updated charts after today’s stage (and some new stuff too) below the fold…
Tagged bump chart, tour de franceThanks to NordicXplained I’ve been alerted to several more athletes retiring after the 2009-2010 season. Â These next three may be somewhat less famous than the other skiers I profiled, but that doesn’t make them less important or less interesting! Â For instance…
Tagged retirement, reto burgermeister, retrospective(Updated with results from today’s stage.) A few years ago I saw that someone had made some bump charts based on Tour de France results. Â (I actually was alerted to them via Junk Charts). Â Brilliant! Â Sadly, it hasn’t seemed to catch on, as I haven’t seen these sort of graphs floating around much since then. […]
Tagged bump chart, tour de franceNow that I have some athlete similarity code up and running, let’s take it for a spin, shall we? The basic idea is to pick a skier (Beckie Scott in this case) and then mine my results database for skiers who’ve had similar careers. Â This is a fairly complicated task with a lot of steps. […]
Tagged athlete similarity, beckie scott, Distance, SprintThis idea comes from a similar sort of game that baseball stat heads play. Â The idea is to match up similar athletes based upon their performances. Â In baseball, we’d look at a whole slew of statistics for some current player’s career and then scan through the historical records and find other players who had similar […]
Tagged Analysis, athlete similarity, DistanceA week on the road for me, so things have been a little slow. Â Here’s what’s been happening while I travel around to watch my friends get married… I showed a simple visualization of the men’s Olympic relay, although I made a bit of a mistake, omitting the Czech team. Â Sorry! We continued with our […]
Tagged week in reviewA late addition to the skier retirement series is German Claudia Nystad (before she married she raced under the name Claudia Kuenzel; FIS hyphenates her name, so I will too). Kuenzel-Nystad has quite a few Olympic and World Championship medals, although most of them were in relays. Â She has 8 medals (all gold and silver) […]
Tagged claudia kuenzel-nystad, retirement, retrospective