Long time German skier Rene Sommerfeldt is retiring this year. Â His international career spans roughly 15 years, which is quite a long time to ski internationally. I thought it would be fun to honor retiring skiers with a fairly comprehensive look back at their careers. Â But since this is a largely data visualization site, it […]
Tagged rene sommerfeldt, retirement, retrospectiveEarlier this week I described the notion of victims and nemeses, and showed you who Petter Northug’s were for the 2009-2010 season. Â You can check back at that link for a description of victims/nemeses. Â The basic idea is to count up the number of times you beat someone by a narrow margin (they become a […]
Tagged justyna kowalczyk, marit bjoergen, nemeses, victimsAdded a few more seasons of athlete rankings, showing variability estimates.  Use the drop down menus in the Athlete Rankings tab to find them and check here for an explanation of how I made them.
Tagged rankingsIn a previous post, I talked about rookie skier performance on the World Cup. Â You can check back there for an explanation of what I mean by a rookie skier and the specifics of how I selected which data to use. Â I left off in that post with the following graph, showing rookie FIS point […]
Tagged Analysis, development, Distance, rookiesYou might have noticed the Athlete Rankings tab at the top of the page. Â If you click on that tab, rather than navigating through the mouse over menus you’ll see a brief description of what they are, but I thought I’d put a quick note on them here. First I need to explain why the […]
Tagged rankingsEvery season a new crop of young skiers cut their teeth on the World Cup circuit. Â These might be new national team members racing on the World Cup full time, or they might be Nation’s Group athletes who receive a start as part of a host nation’s extra start allotments. Â Each nation likely has a […]
Tagged Analysis, development, Distance, rookies, World CupWelcome to Statistical Skier! I’ve somehow managed to amass a fairly impressive database of international skiing results (what can I say, I really like data) and cross-country skiing has been a huge part of my life. Â I wrote a few articles[1. I’ve reposted them in the preceding posts.] for FasterSkier.com this spring exploring some of […]