One Track, Two Levels: Imagining the Future of Biathlon races.
A crazy idea to have more athletes in biathlon races by doubling the shooting range capacity.
Biathlon
Analyzing the strength and depth of Biathlon Nations
Although it is fair to say that the top Nations in biathlon are pretty clear, I wanted to look a little deeper and see which Nations were strong in the last five seasons, which ones have been getting stronger, and what ‘smaller’ Nations have been looking upward.
Getting pumped for the new Biathlon season?
A quick re-run of the last race of last season, by ranking
Puckpossessed Biathlon #7 Canadians
I reviewed the IBU Biathlon data for Canadian performances since the 2000-2001 season and wrote an article. To see the full quality file, download the PDF below. The preview below that is low quality to keep the file a decent size and give an idea what the file looks like. I hope you enjoy.
PuckPossessed Biathlon #6 The Queen of Pursuit
As I’m really liking working in R-Studio, I did my next research in R as well: the Queen of the Pursuit. Unfortunately I am limited to only one season’s data, and a limited season as well. But, as the Dutch saying goes, sometimes you’ve got to row with the oars you got. The full research and R-code can be found on this separate page, and I used another tool I’m quite fond of, Gravit Designer, to create a final result of the research: Here’s the R Notebook including all the code and visuals: I hope you enjoy. Any comments or… Read More »PuckPossessed Biathlon #6 The Queen of Pursuit
Biathlon Course Time Strategy
Looking at the Course Times per Race and Season, I noticed some strong differences in what laps are faster and slower: For example, Oslo starts fast (the course times are shown in seconds, so the lower the value, the faster the ski) but ends really slow, with a significance time difference. Oberhof on the other hand gets faster as the race goes on. Initially I wondered if these trends were influenced by tactics based on weather conditions, but looking a the chart above it is clear the the trends are strongly dependent on the location / stadium / course. I… Read More »Biathlon Course Time Strategy
Puck Possessed Biathlon #1
Alright, finally my first Puck Possessed using Biathlon data. If you are in any way familiar with Biathlon data from the IBU Datacenter you know the pain you have to go through from seeing the data in their great tool to getting it into a data visualization tool like Tableau. So far I have been able to get data for all Women’s Sprint events for seasons 2017-18, 2018-19 and the current season. Although I’m happy that the IBU puts this data out there, it’s unfortunate they don’t do so in a way that would be more user friendly to use… Read More »Puck Possessed Biathlon #1