Can you name a Polish men’s cross country ski racer? Â Hmmm. Â Poland has certainly been a one woman show of late, thanks to Justyna Kowalczyk. Which makes the following graph (a continuation of the graphs in this post) not terribly surprising: So here are some Polish men for you: Janusz Krezelok and Maciej Kreczmer. Â Who […]
Tagged Age, Germany, justyna kowalczyk, PolandI sort of just stumbled across these graphs accidentally. Â If there’s a point to them, it might be that this is what happens when you have a small ski team that manages to produce a really, really fast skier (or two). You hold on to them for as long as humanly possible. First up, Estonia. […]
Tagged Age, Estonia, FranceYes. That whole shooting bit. Â Tricky, isn’t it? So maybe a bit more discussion would be good. Â This graph shows the distributions of the median absolute deviations (MADs) by athlete and season, for those athletes who competed in at least five major competitions in that season. Biathletes, due to wild swings in shooting performance, are […]
Tagged biathlon, variability, xcHappy October everyone! Â Can’t you just smell the ski season around the corner? Previously on Statistical Skier: We took a look at the quality of OPA Cup and Scandinavian Cup (sort of a minor league race series for the World Cup) races as measure by the FIS points awarded to the top skiers at those […]
When most people say that World Cup skiers are animals, they probably mean they are fierce, strong competitors. Â I got my PhD in statistics in a department that found itself working quite often with very strong wildlife biology and ecology departments, so for me that reference leads me to think, “Well, what if they really […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, R, survival, technical, World CupThe connection is pretty obvious, actually. Â Both are mass start races that involve switching activities at least once during the race. Â The change in activities is certainly more extreme in triathlon, but you get my drift. Some people (like, say, me) complain on occasion that pursuit races in cross-country skiing place too great an emphasis […]
Tagged mass start, pursuits, R, triathlonWith more North Americans sojourning over to Europe to participate in high-level European racing that isn’t quite World Cups, I thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at the OPA (or Alpen) Cup and Scandinavian Cup series in a bit more detail. As the name might imply, the Scandinavian Cup races are […]
Tagged competitiveness, opa cup, race penalty, scandinavian cup, supertour