Occassional thoughts about orienteering
|
|
| okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering |
|
|
Monday, July 08, 2013 US v Peer Nations WOC rankingsPeer nation standings after the long qualification, sprint qualification and sprint finals races:Portugal New Zealand Belgium Ireland USA, Canada, Japan are all tied Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:03 PM 
Sunday, July 07, 2013 Final JWOC peer nations rankingAfter the JWOC relays, I came up with my final JWOC peer nation rankings.New Zealand 96 Ireland 83 Belgium 71 Japan 69 Portugal 67 USA Can 46 The scores can be interpreted as the chance that a matched runner from the nation will beat the matched runner from the U.S. "Matched runners" are the runners from each nation who are best or 2nd best or 3rd best and so on, in each event. For example, the 3rd best result from New Zealand in the sprint is "matched" against the 3rd best result from the U.S. If you look at all of the matches, you'd find that New Zealand would win about 96 percent of those matches against the U.S. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 11:08 AM
Friday, July 05, 2013 JWOC peer nation rankings...no changes after sprintAfter today's JWOC sprint there are no changes in the overall peer nation rankings:New Zealand Ireland Japan Belgium Portugal USA Canada Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:29 PM
Thursday, July 04, 2013 Portugal moves up in my JWOC rankingsBased on the middle distance finals at JWOC, Portugal moved up a notch (after being tied with USA going into the middle finals). The key for Portugal was having one A qualifier in the men's race and 2 B qualifiers in the women's race.The overall rankings haven't changed except for Portugal's move: New Zealand Ireland Japan Belgium Portugal USA Canada While the overall rankings haven't changed, things have gotten just a little bit tighter. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 11:03 AM
Tuesday, July 02, 2013 After 2 days...JWOC peer nation rankingsHere are my "peer nation" rankings after the first two days of the JWOC.New Zealand Ireland Japan Belgium USA and Portugal (tie) Canada Both Beligium and Portugal suffered from a number of DQs in the long event. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:53 PM
Monday, July 01, 2013 First look at JWOC results and peer nationsI took a look at the JWOC results by looking at the U.S. and my list of "peer nations" after the first day's race. You can read a bit of background on the peer nations approach. Keep in mind that I've updated my nations list a bit since 2004. My current groups is: Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand and Portugal.I calculated a U.S. win/loss record for the long distance race and I'll keep track of the results as more races occur (and probably post them eventually). One of the reasons I like looking at peer nation results is that I notice things I wouldn't otherwise notice. At today's JWOC race, for example, Japan had three runners in the top 100. That seems like a pretty good result. Though it has never caught on, I think the peer nations approach is a good way to look at overall performance and would be a good way of looking at how the US performance has changed over the years. Personally, I think that it would make a good way of setting and measuring goals...except it hasn't every gotten any traction and it doesn't make sense to set goals that nobody but me pays attention to. You can see some discussion of the US performance at today's race on Attackpoint where a number of posters are coming up with measures. It is also worth a look at the goals that were posted before the JWOC began. I'm not a fan of those specific goals, though I like the idea that: ...we want to state overall performance goals for JWOC tonight, then figure out what we need to do to get to those goals, and put them aside and not discuss them until after JWOC. Instead, we'll be focusing on the process goals... Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:36 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
||||
|
|||||
