Originally Posted by
Aero Sapien
Essentially anything about cyclists at this point. I don't know what data is available, so I don't know what can be investigated.
Some examples of data mining in other sports:
-In baseball, regression analysis has shown that a sacrifice bunt to move a runner from first base to second base is never as statistically effective as just leaving the runner on first and having the batter take a real at-bat.
Baseball has been broken down so many ways because there's
a lot of time between the action, and everything happens in a defined order. You could even argue slow motion compared to cycling.
In a road race things are so much more fluid, "scorers" would have a hard time keeping up. Also think about how the race splits up, etc.
But if you want to talk about
results, that's a different story. See here for a start:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...iction-Website