Aside from being a yummy holiday treat, Thanksgiving turkey is a term used (in North America, at least) to refer to ski racers who come out of the gate kicking everyone’s pants off in November or December and then fizzle out for the rest of the season. Â A friend urged me to write a post […]
Tagged early season, espen rotchev, Fun Stuff, peaking, tor arne hetlandSeveral people have commented that my summary graphs should take into account skier’s potentially differing abilities in skating and classic. Â (We could slice up the data as thinly as we’d like: mass start vs. interval, etc. Â But that will get complicated quickly, so let’s add technique and see how it goes for now.) I pondered […]
Tagged race snapshot, recap, World CupNow for some of the folks across the pond. Â I’m less familiar with a lot of the European racers, so who I focus on will be largely dictated by what stands out to me in the data (or you can drop me a line if you think there’s someone I should put under the microscope!), […]
Tagged axel teichmann, lukas bauer, maria rydqvist, mia eriksson, petr sedov, pietro piller cottrer, recap, robin duvillard, sami jauhojaervi, silvana bucher, sjur roethe, tobias angerer, vincent vittoz, World CupI’ll have a post up tomorrow running through some of the notable European results from the weekend. The short version of the weekend’s distance races goes something like this: Good: Kris Freeman, Kikkan Randall, Noah Hoffman, Liz Stephen Bad: Canadian men, Chris Cook Meh: Morgan Arritola, Andrey Newell Americans Here’s a closer look at the […]
Tagged alex harvey, chris cook, devon kershaw, george grey, ivan babikov, kikkan randall, kris freeman, liz stephen, morgan arritola, noah hoffman, recap, World CupIn the run up to the World Cup season, I had been trying to think of ways to create a single graph that would do a decent job of communicating how good each person’s race was in the context of their past results. Â I wanted something relatively simple and easy to read that would hopefully […]
Tagged race snapshot, recap, World CupStatistical Skier’s Week In Review has it’s first sponsor, Skadi Nordic! Â If removing the snow and ice from the bottom of your boots is your least favorite part of skiing, I’d head over to their site and check them out, cause they’ve solved that problem. World Cup racing finally gets underway this weekend in Gällivare, […]
Tagged week in reviewI’m squeezing in the last preview post for the Canadian ski team just under the wire! For both Ivan Babikov and George Grey I’m going to focus in on the distance events. Â They both certainly do sprints in stage events like the Tour de Ski, but I think it’s fair to say they both have […]
Tagged canada, george grey, ivan babikov, season preview