A far less cheery topic than skier improvement is, well, the opposite. Â Lacking a better term, I’m sticking with “unimproved”. Â That’s not technically accurate, since I’m actually looking at skiers who went considerably slower year to year. Â But I feel bad enough pointing out trends like these, no need to add gratuitously insulting terminology to […]
Tagged Distance, men, unimproved, World CupAs before, we’re looking at the change in the average of a skier’s best five distance races (by FIS points) from the ’08-’09 to the ’09-’10 season. Â You must have raced in at least five major international events (WC, WSC, or OWG) to be considered. Here’s the table of the ten most improved women: [table […]
Tagged Distance, most improved, womenLast week I posted a short item looking at how Bjoern Daehlie and Vladimir Smirnov fared against each other, head to head. Â Here’s a little reminder of the sort of fun this entails: I don’t know about you, but I thought that was pretty fun, so I figured I’d do some more. But who? Â That’s […]
Tagged head to head, pollRanking athletes based on FIS points, or some other measure, is relatively easy. Â Sometimes rankings are fun, because they give sports nuts something to argue about. Â Sometimes, however, things devolve into annoying arguments about the specific measure you’re using to rank the athletes with. Any such measure has flaws, and FIS points are no different. […]
Tagged Athlete Ranking, Distance, head to headA lot of the stuff I’ve done so far on this site looks at data over fairly long periods of time. Â Let’s switch things up and look only at the previous two World Cup seasons. Â Awards for most improved skiers have a special place in my heart due to my own skiing career, which had […]
Tagged awards, Distance, most improvedA recap of what’s been going on here at StatisticalSkier.com this past week: – I finished up a four part series examining rookie performances on the World Cup scene by tackling sprinting. Â (Distance racing was covered last week.) – I updated the athlete ranking graphs, adding several more years and changing the color scheme slightly […]
Tagged week in reviewContinuing with our look at retiring skiers… Italian veteran Sabina Valbusa is hanging up the skis. Â Skiing runs in her family: she is the younger sister of Fulvio Valbusa. Â Not only that, she’s been racing for quite some time now: Â I have results for her dating from 1993 up to 2010. The five time Olympian […]
Tagged retirement, retrospective, sabina valbusa