Biathlon 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[rybak 3,431]

4 godziny temu, Gianlu33 napisał:

Sadly I agree.. It seems a B division race  

Well, it can't be Division B race if in this competition we can see such athletes as M. Fourcade, Dorin Habert, Svendsen, Lesser, Preuss, Eder, Hauser, Smith and Crawford

[heywoodu 16,465]

10 hours ago, rybak said:

Well, it can't be Division B race if in this competition we can see such athletes as M. Fourcade, Dorin Habert, Svendsen, Lesser, Preuss, Eder, Hauser, Smith and Crawford

When you have 2 mixed relay events, nations have to spread their athlets between them, meaning that either the mixed relay or the single mixed relay won't have the strongest possible field of competitors

 

 

[ahjfcshfghb 296]

On 11/28/2016 at 21:34, heywoodu said:

When you have 2 mixed relay events, nations have to spread their athlets between them, meaning that either the mixed relay or the single mixed relay won't have the strongest possible field of competitors

 

 

I wonder what they'd do for the World Championships. I would have one on the first day and one on the last day.

[heywoodu 16,465]

2 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

I wonder what they'd do for the World Championships. I would have one on the first day and one on the last day.

So far it's not even on the schedule

 

[ahjfcshfghb 296]

Just now, heywoodu said:

So far it's not even on the schedule

 

Yeah it's not this year. But they've added it starting 2019.

[heywoodu 16,465]

Just now, ahjfcshfghb said:

Yeah it's not this year. But they've added it starting 2019.

Cool, I thought it would be this year  

 

But yeah now that you mention it, I remember they said 2019..

[heywoodu 16,465]

@Werloc Didn't you say somewhere that Diana Rasimoviciute has divorced from Ilmars Bricis? She's on tomorrow's startlist as Diana Rasimoviciute-Brice 

[ahjfcshfghb 296]

On 11/25/2016 at 23:00, heywoodu said:

 

IBU Qualifying Points = ((athlete’s time/winner’s time)-1) x Race Factor) + Race Penalty

 

Race Factor: for Sprint and Individual competitions 800

Race Penalty: the sum of the points of the three highest ranked athletes in the top 10 divided by 3.75

The race penalty for all WC, WCH and OWG competitions is zero (0).

 

Earlier in the year I made this table so when I'm at the competitions I can somewhat easily check the number of points without having to calculate stuff on my phone all the time  (and so Bruna and the Brazilians have a better idea of what they'll need)

 

 

The colour coding is just a little random, mostly because 150, 180 and 200 are/were "important" lines  

 

I've taken 40 as race penalty here. In most IBU Cups last season it was something between 30 and 40 (at least for the women), but as it depends on who ends up in the top-10, it's always a bit hard to predict exactly. That's why I used 40, so in most cases the actual number of points will be a little bit lower. 

 

Vertical is the winning time of the race (as you see it'll only work for sprints), horizontal is the time of athlete X behind the winner --> combine them to get the approximate number of points for athlete X  

 

By the way, concerning the World Championships, thinking about Tsakiri here- an athlete needs to 'have' under 180 points to be eligible to start. Does that mean all the points from the races are added up and averaged out?

[heywoodu 16,465]

9 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

By the way, concerning the World Championships, thinking about Tsakiri here- an athlete needs to 'have' under 180 points to be eligible to start. Does that mean all the points from the races are added up and averaged out?

They take the average of the three best results in the past three trimesters. 

 

IBU has slightly changed the way they publish IBU Qualifying Points (I mean the format of the PDF is a little different), and my Excel sheet doesn't like it, so I'm waiting for my Excel magician to solve the problem so I can start adding results and keeping the list up to date  

[heywoodu 16,465]

By the way, one result of under 150 points is sufficient as well to be eligible (so: average of under 180 or at least one result of under 150), so with her 109 points last weekend she is already eligible