What about best performances?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:04 am
None of the above athletes, however, have their longest streak of No1 performances still ongoing. We can look at ongoing streaks by selecting on those which have an ‘End Year’ of 2019. There are 19 athletes who have been top ranked in both 2018 and 2019. There are 6 athletes who are currently on a run of at least 5 years with the No1 ranked performance in their event. They are:
Sophie Hitchon, Dina Asher-Smith and croatia phone number Nick Miller did not record performances in 2020, but the other 3 (Holly Bradshaw, Laura Muir and Scott Lincoln) have also recorded the No1 ranked performances in the very unusual 2020 season (5) to continue their streaks – can any of them beat Mo’s 12 in a row?
These measures show longevity and consistency in being the UK’s best, but they don’t necessarily show us whether the performances that they have been putting in are truly world-class or not.
One way of considering the merits of an individual performance (and one often used in athletic circles) is to compare it to the world record value. This appears to be a simple calculation in that all we need to do for each performance is to work out its value as a % of the world record. The complications stem from the fact that we have some events which have values recorded in time form (where all the values will be greater than the record (2)), and some which have a number form (where all the values will be lower than the record (3)).
However, we can deal with this by creating an expression in FastStats and utilising a Case statement with 46 comparison clauses – one per event.
Here is an example of how this expression would start – we identify which event the performance was from, and then calculate its value as a % of the World Record in that event (8.95m is the Men’s Long Jump record etc).
Sophie Hitchon, Dina Asher-Smith and croatia phone number Nick Miller did not record performances in 2020, but the other 3 (Holly Bradshaw, Laura Muir and Scott Lincoln) have also recorded the No1 ranked performances in the very unusual 2020 season (5) to continue their streaks – can any of them beat Mo’s 12 in a row?
These measures show longevity and consistency in being the UK’s best, but they don’t necessarily show us whether the performances that they have been putting in are truly world-class or not.
One way of considering the merits of an individual performance (and one often used in athletic circles) is to compare it to the world record value. This appears to be a simple calculation in that all we need to do for each performance is to work out its value as a % of the world record. The complications stem from the fact that we have some events which have values recorded in time form (where all the values will be greater than the record (2)), and some which have a number form (where all the values will be lower than the record (3)).
However, we can deal with this by creating an expression in FastStats and utilising a Case statement with 46 comparison clauses – one per event.
Here is an example of how this expression would start – we identify which event the performance was from, and then calculate its value as a % of the World Record in that event (8.95m is the Men’s Long Jump record etc).