With the first period of WC racing in the books and the next one just around the corner, I’m going to look back at the results of the North American skiers so far this season. Â The theme of this post is context and expectations. One of the reasons that I started this blog was that […]
Tagged canada, Distance, median, men, midseason, percent back, review, USA, womenMy post on the differing performance of Japanese skiers by technique (classic vs. freestyle) got a lot of positive responses and a few requests that I use the same methods on some other countries. Â First up is Italy. I’ve tweaked and refined my model a fair bit, hopefully for the better. Â The basic idea is […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, italy, men, Sprint, technical, technique preference, womenThis is a follow-up post to an earlier entry where I noted an off-hand comment by US coach Chris Grover that when Kikkan Randall qualifies in the top ten in a sprint race, that this is a good sign that she has a good chance of making it to the finals. I looked at some […]
Tagged andrew newell, kikkan randall, qualification, SprintThe Statistical Skier is going to take a much needed holiday break to visit the Statistical In-Laws and hopefully do some skiing, but not much statistics. Â Regular posting should resume on Monday. Enjoy your holidays!
Tagged blog update, xmasJust as I did yesterday, let’s take a closer look at the results form Saturday’s World Cup mass start race in La Clusaz, France, this time focusing on the North Americans. Â As I discussed yesterday, we’re going to use percent-back difference plots from mass start or pursuit races to evaluate each skier’s race, since the […]
Tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, recap, USA, women, World CupPicking up from my post yesterday, we’ll move on to Kris Freeman: Freeman told FasterSkier that blood sugar issues weren’t a problem, but that he simply didn’t have a great race on Saturday. Â Well, it’s quite clear from this percent-back difference plot what happens when he does have blood sugar problems, as he did last […]
Tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, World CupSaturday was the first long mass start race of the World Cup season in La Clusaz, France, and along with mass start races come difficulties in measuring performance in a sensible manner. Â The women’s field didn’t help matters by having the top three ski away from the field. So you end up with some odd […]
Tagged curdin perl, daniel rickardsson, Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, riitta-liisa roponen, therese johaug, women, World Cup