okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, June 19, 2005
More on age and orienteering
I compared age and ranking points for 52 entrants at the Swedish WOC selection races. See the graph below. Keep in mind that lower ranking numbers represent better performances. The top ranked orienteer (Johan Nasman, I think) has 0 ranking points.
It doesn't look like there is a real strong relationship between age and rank. Hakan Eriksson -- he's the point way off to the right -- stands out. You don't see anyone even close to as old as Hakan and you don't see many people with better ranking points. If you look carefully, you'll see that there is a weak relationship between age and ranking points of the entrants for the selection races. The younger runners have slightly worse average rankings (mostly because a lot more of the younger runners are ranked over 8).
posted by Michael |
7:31 PM