On various occasions I have looked at FIS point race penalties, in a very general, roundabout way.  Most recently, I looked at whether the FIS points you get in a non-World Cup race accurately reflect what you would have scored if you had raced in a World Cup race. The answer appeared to be: kind of.  At […]
Also tagged fis points, penalty, World CupAnother interesting data-centric post appeared over at NCCSEF, and when it comes to data, I just can’t help myself but comment. This time we’ve got some slides that seem to be trying to draw a relationship between WJC results and winning a medal at (I believe) the Vancouver Olympic Games. We’re only shown the (partial) […]
Also tagged Analysis, medals, podium, technicalAnother guessing game, this one based on a misunderstanding of a previous one. Â This time, I’ve graphed FIS points vs. date for five skiers up to an Olympic race where they will all race against each other and finish in the top five. Â Your job is to identify the medalists and for bonus points the […]
Also tagged mystery skierBack on Monday I posted the graph shown below and posed a question: It turns out I didn’t ask my question very clearly, because I had to keep updating the post with clarifications. Â So that’s my fault. Â Maybe this time I’ll do better. Â What I did was plot a part of the time series of […]
Also tagged arianna follis, Distance, lina andersson, manuela henkel, marit bjoergen, podium, stefanie boehler, womenFive mystery skiers, all women.  For each skier, their very next  (distance) race is a WC, OWG or WSC race.  Which of them are going to finish on the podium (top 3) in their very next race? To make things a bit more challenging, I’ve omitted the x axis labels (which is date, not age), […]
Also tagged mystery skier, podium, quiz