Since Kikkan Randall locked up the Sprint World Cup title this weekend with a (narrow) win over Marit Bjoergen, I thought it might be instructive to review their head-to-head history in sprinting: The dashed line is the trend for freestyle races and the solid is classic. Dots in the red are victories for Kikkan […]
Tagged kikkan randall, marit bjoergen, Sprint, World CupMen’s Race Women’s race:
Tagged classic, lahti, race snapshot, Sprint, World CupIt’s remarked on in a few places that we might finally be seeing the effects of Kikkan Randall’s injury struggles over the summer. Another skier who had some strong early races and then has struggled as times during the season is Holly Brooks, so let’s look at their actual (WC, TDS and WSC) results from […]
Tagged holly brooks, kikkan randall, World CupI posted these a while back, but since the Davos races are just around the corner, I thought I’d put them up again so we can see just how wrong I am! Basically, I came up with a way to try to develop a somewhat more sophisticated “seeding” that takes into account the specific event […]
Tagged Davos, men, predictions, seeding, women, World CupI’m going to do something stupid in this post. I’m going to disagree with someone who has likely forgotten more about the sport of XC skiing than I will ever know. It’s World Championship team selection time, and in North America that pretty reliably means some drama from the peanut gallery, represented here by the […]
Tagged Age, Analysis, development, rants, World CupI got some positive feedback about my tentative handicapping of the field for one of the WSC events, so I thought I’d sink some more time in it. I went back and changed the modeling technique rather dramatically to make it more flexible (and hopefully more accurate). But the basic idea is the same. In […]
Tagged classic, Davos, men, seeding, Sprint, women, World Cup