Saturday 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 […]
Also tagged curdin perl, daniel rickardsson, Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, riitta-liisa roponen, therese johaug, womenKind of a rough day for the Americans today in biathlon, but some solid Canadian results. Â Brendan Green and Scot Perras both had good races as well as Zina Kocher.
Also tagged biathlon, race snapshot, SprintI think there were high hopes for Kris Freeman in today’s 30km, particularly after yesterdays monster article in FasterSkier, but I still suspect he’s likely to do better in 15km events. Â Still, not a terrible race for him at all, and a good day all around for the North Americans. Â Once again, though, the women’s […]
Also tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, race snapshotHow embarrassing is it for our sport that no one seems to be able to reliably count the number of World Cup victories of our best athletes? Here’s the deal.  Marit Björgen has attracted some attention lately for the number of total WC victories to her name, which is generally thought to be at least […]
Also tagged bente skari martinsen, bjoern daehlie, counting, fis, marit bjoergen, rant, records, victoriesThey aren’t what stat-heads like myself would choose to do “serious” stuff, but World Cup points are what makes the XC world go round. Â FIS provides a few tools for looking up athlete’s WC points here and here. Â They’re pretty decent, by their standards, allowing you to switch between Overall, Distance and Sprint points, filter […]
Also tagged bar chart, visualization, world cup pointsGreat day for Sara Studebaker in 21st! Â The results look a little shook up on the men’s side, as well as the women’s to some degree. Â Lowell Bailey had a decent result despite some dodgy shooting.
Also tagged biathlon, race snapshotOne of the interesting things we can look at with sprint races is differences between the various heats themselves, rather than individual skiers. Â Interestingly, reconstructing this information, namely who was in what quarterfinal or semifinal, using just the split times took a little bit of thought. Â Not a monumental challenge, but it was a bit […]
Also tagged bump chart, Davos, heats, splits, Sprint