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2024-25 Preview Part 3: Breakthrough and Age Analysis

Breakthrough Potential In Part 3, I will be going over the skiers most likely to breakthrough this year, give an age analysis of the field, and …

2024-25 Preview Part 2: World Cup Standings

World Cup Standings Predictions Background In Part 2, I will be giving the overall standings predictions as a proportion of maximum World Cup points …

2024-25 Preview Part 1: Introduction & Schedule

2024-25 Season Preview Introduction It’s near Thanksgiving time and you know what that means. The 2024-25 FIS Cross Country season is here! In …

Scraping Ski Data for Statistical Analysis

How to get your data

Goal: Getting the Data Needed to Perform Statistical Analysis The first step to perform any meaningful statistical analysis is to get the data needed. …

Biathlon Race Picks Methodology

Biathlon Individual Data Gathering Biathlon individual race startlists are scraped from the Biathlon World website using specialized JSON-based data …

Cross-Country Race Picks Methodology

Cross-Country Individual Data Gathering Cross-country individual race startlists are scraped from the FIS websites using automated Python scripts that …

Nordic Combined Race Picks Methodology

Nordic Combined Individual Data Gathering Nordic Combined individual race startlists are scraped from the FIS websites using automated Python scripts …

Race Picks Methodology

BLUF Alpine Individual Data Gathering Each day at midnight UTC, an automated Python scrape is performed on the FIS website to identify upcoming World …

Ski Jumping Race Picks Methodology

Ski Jumping Individual Data Gathering Ski jumping individual race startlists are scraped from the FIS websites using automated Python scripts that …

This post is used to serve as an explanation for what Elo ratings are and how they are used in this site. What is Elo? How is it calculated? How is it …

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