Graphs launched

Wheeeee, pretty! Yay for geeky graphness :P

By Seb Frost9:32pm, Feb 01st 2010

A picture tells a thousand words they say, so graphs rather than (or in addition to) tables of data was always part of the plan for this site. Only got a couple in at the moment, and they will be improved over time, but they're fairly key.

First of all we have the rider graph. Pick any rider that has more than one race stored on the system, and as well as a table of their results you'll be presented with a graph of their history. Obviously the more DH races they do, the more interesting the graphs are. At the moment RootsAndRain is showing two lines per DH racer:

1) Them vs Fastest Time of the Day: this shows how they compared to the top guy, in percentage terms. So if the winning Elite DHer posted FTD of 2minutes, and you did 2min12, it'll show you as being 10% off of the FTD
2) Them vs Fastest Time in Category: similar, but compared to the quickest rider in their individual category, not overall.

Secondly is the rider comparison graph. To keep things clear and concise we drop the FTC line for this graph, and just show an FTD for each rider. To me this is the best measure of performance between two people, and it's interesting how you can note that most people struggle more compared to FTD on muddy courses, they become quite noticable blips on each rider's graph. Elites ride mud like it's dry, the rest of us freeze up.

A couple of example links:

* These riders have opted out and wish not to share their rider history publically

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