CFG Analysis

What you need to know from this post: About 50% of athletes who compete in the Open on year will continue to the following season. Athlet...

In this and most future posts, I'll start by giving you a very brief summary of the key takeaways from the post. What you need to know...

Today's post will basically put a bow on the 2014 CrossFit Games season.  What's that, you say?  Didn't the Games end 2 months a...

Note: For details on the dataset I am using, including which athletes are and are not included, please see the introduction to Part I. Thank...

As I did last year around this time, today I'll be starting my review of the 2014 CrossFit Games Open. Of course there will be limitatio...

Two weeks ago, I proposed a method to project an athlete's overall ranking before score submissions had closed for the week. To me, it m...

See? I told you. I knew last week was the week. For the first time in 8 tries (dating back to last year), I put up a SWAG that was pretty cl...

For 14.1, I whiffed on the movements but at least got the time frame right. For 14.2, I did manage to call the overhead squats but basically...

One quirk about the Open leaderboard is that while a workout is open for submissions, the overall rankings are basically useless. The rankin...

Before we get SWAG-y, I'd like to get some quick thoughts out about 14.2 and also give you the results of an interesting little study I ...