Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 WOC results databaseSimon E. built a database of WOC results. What a great tool or toy or whatever you want to call it.How does the best US sprint result compare to the best South African sprint result? Easy to find out. Samantha Saeger's 29th in 2006 compared to Martin Terry's 31st in 2003. What was Zsuzsa Fey's best result, measured by percent behind the winner, in her first WOC (1995)? Turns out it was the long qualifier. What about her worst WOC result? Just two years later, she was 34.3 percent behind the winner in the long qualifier in Norway. The database doesn't include relay results and you need to be careful to look for different spelling of names (I'm listed as two runners, "Michael" and "Mike", for example...and "Michael" is a better orienteer judging by his results). But, I'm not complaining, the database is a great tool for looking at results. Suffering of a Royal's fan I watched a bit of the baseball game last night. The Royals were playing the NY Yankees and took a 5-1 lead into the 8th inning. I turned off the TV and a bit later turned on the radio, expecting to get the post game report. Nope, the Royals managed to give up 11 runs and lose the game. The sad story is nicely illustrated by the WPA graph of the game from Fangraphs.com.  What would this game be like in terms or orienteering? You're having a great run in a big race...except you skipped a control or two or three. posted by Michael | 8:22 PM 
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