Since we supposedly do statistics around here, the goal here will be to ‘statistically’ identify folks who specialize in longer distance races. By that I mean people who tend to ski better (relative to their own performance) in longer races. The fun part is to see whether the folks we single out match up with […]
Tagged distance specialists, models, statistics, womenI haven’t done one of these in a while, so just for fun… This time let’s compare two great female skiers from the 90’s (and early 00’s), Norwegian Bente Skari and Italian Stefania Belmondo. Â Unlike with Daehlie and Alsgaard, things are little more balanced for these two:
Tagged bente skari martinsen, head to head, stefania belmondoWait, what? Alpine skiing? Yep. I’ve got 18 seasons of World Cup, Olympic and World Championship alpine results. Not nearly as extensive as my XC results, but it’s interesting data nonetheless. As with any new set of data, you spend a bit of time just poking around looking at stuff. Today I’m going to share […]
Tagged alpine, World CupI started writing an answer to a comment to Monday’s post, but it started getting long, so I thought I’d make it a short post, instead. Basically, the question was how can the points be so different between OPA and Scandinavian Cup races when the penalty calculation methods is exactly the same. Recall that these […]
Tagged fis points, opa cup, scandinavian cupSome comments on a recent post got me curious about the FIS points awarded at OPA Cup races. Similarly to my commenters, I’d noticed that oftentimes the top skiers at an OPA Cup race would receive very low (i.e. good) points for that race, and that this often wouldn’t seem to match up well with […]
Tagged fis points, opa cup, scandinavian cupA companion post to my previous entry looking at some of the Finnish men. I’m using a sort of cohort style plot. They compare each athlete’s FIS points (similar to, but not exactly, what FIS uses for their rankings) to those of athletes who have gone on to finish in the top ten in a […]
Tagged development, finland, womenI can’t keep up on the enormous number of good young skiers from every nation. I have a hard enough time with just those in my own backyard, the US and Canada. So it’s fun to look at some folks from other countries that I’m not so familiar with. For instance, here are some graphs […]
Tagged cohort, development, finland, men