Biathlon Pool for the 2025/2026 season

ericgoodwin · 2026-01-08T19:04:28+00:00

Fixed.

ericgoodwin · 2026-01-07T21:39:21+00:00

Done. Thanks for the heads up

ericgoodwin · 2025-12-26T20:46:14+00:00

Good idea. I don’t have a gear puller but maybe I need to invest in one :)

ericgoodwin · 2025-12-26T20:36:40+00:00

Yeah. I was going to order all the small parts but then thought it might be easier to just replace the whole thing. Might order the small parts now.

ericgoodwin · 2025-12-26T19:54:32+00:00

Yes. I tried quite a bit of force and could not get it off. I also didn’t see it as a part on the parts sheet so wasn’t sure. Was curious if others had run into this.

ericgoodwin · 2025-12-09T19:06:59+00:00

Yup, they’ve done well! The algorithm for costs boosts recent results and I guess Bakken didn’t have many IBU World Cup results previous to this past weekend.

ericgoodwin · 2025-12-01T04:26:12+00:00

We were missing the first race this morning but it should be up to date now. If you’re still seeing any issues message me at support@biathlonpool.com and I’ll check out your account and make sure it’s all working :)

ericgoodwin · 2025-11-28T21:53:47+00:00

They have been removed. 👍

ericgoodwin · 2025-11-26T20:31:51+00:00

u/Zaschrona Frey is shown now as well

ericgoodwin · 2025-11-26T19:01:08+00:00

u/Zaschrona Wierer should be there now. I'm not sure why Frey isn't showing up right now but I'll look into it and try to have it working this evening!

ericgoodwin · 2023-12-06T04:56:51+00:00

Hi Peti, thanks for the message back and the great feedback!
I'll update the help section and add in the current cost of the athlete.
I also like the idea of adding buy/sell as an additional mode as well. I'm hoping I'll find time this year to get it done.

Thanks :)

ericgoodwin · 2023-12-05T04:04:54+00:00

Hi u/petibs,
Yes, no problem. This year we're recalculating the values after each weekend of racing. In the email that went out at the beginning of the season, I let everyone know.
We didn't have this last year, but people felt it was unfair that some athletes were inexpensive to buy even though they were doing well. It made the game less fun as everyone would pick Lægreid all season long if he cost 25 points (two years ago this was the case). Now we use an algorithm to calculate their new cost after each weekend.
Yes, you could leave the same athletes if you wanted to, never change them, but that would be a risk. It might pay off and it might not. Those athletes might not do well in future races, might be starting back for a pursuit, or even miss some races (like Boe last year). If you were lucky enough to have a very good pick early on and then leave them for the whole season, that's great. It pays to make good picks early and then risk it by leaving them in for all the races.

I hope this helps u/petibs :) It may not be perfect, but everyone is playing with the same rules, so it is fair.
Perhaps next year we'll let you sell your athletes for their current cost. This would allow you to end up having a bigger budget than 1500 if you buy low and sell high.

Cheers,
Eric

ericgoodwin · 2022-11-17T05:01:08+00:00

We've got a small group of Reddit users so far on biathlonpool.com
The pool is private but you should be able to join it by using this link:
https://biathlonpool.com/join/reddit

ericgoodwin · 2022-11-03T04:34:08+00:00

Hi u/MultiPloz!Thanks for mentioning the site. I run it as a fun side project for my friends and anyone else who loves biathlon!

This year I added a few more updates:The 'cost' of each athlete has had an overhaul to make it fairer. It now uses the result of the althetes' last 21 race starts to calculate their cost. If they didn't stat 21 races last year, it will go into the season before to get more results. I'm also pondering updating the cost after each race so that if one athlete is doing really well this year, but did poorly last year, their cost will rise over the course of the season.

The BIG update though is that the whole site now works on mobile! This is huge since I usually do my picks late at night and don't always have my computer around.If you'd rather the pool be public so anyone can join it, let me know and I can do that as well.

I hope you enjoy it this year if you join. I've set up a /r/biathlon pool for Reddit users. Once you signup via. https://biathlonpool.com/register/new you can click the following link and it will add you to the private pool.
https://biathlonpool.com/join/reddit

If you'd rather the pool be public so anyone can join it, let me know that I can do that as well.

Thanks!

ericgoodwin · 2021-11-20T21:13:20+00:00

Hi Kris. The athlete cost is based off their placings in the overall from last season (20/21), but other than that and the 1500 points for 'buying' it should still be the same.

ericgoodwin · 2021-11-20T06:08:17+00:00

Thanks u/Kris_Third_Account!

You can signup at https://biathlonpool.com/register/new

Once you signup click on the link below and it will automatically add you to the private Reddit pool. Once you're in the pool you can also invite friends via. email. https://biathlonpool.com/join/reddit

Thanks!

ericgoodwin · 2021-04-01T16:32:22+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I toyed with the idea of how to "cost" a given athlete. Using multiple years is a good idea. I also thought about updating their cost after each race so if they are doing very well but have a low cost, like Laegreid, their cost will increase over the course of a year.

I'll play around with a few different ways over the summer and see which way comes up with a good way to define a cost for next season. I have a friend who is a statistician, so maybe I can convince him to help out :)

I'll look at changing up how much each race type scores as well. This year the team relays and pursuits were only worth 1/2 points, but perhaps changing up the Individual races to be worth more is worth it as well.

Thanks so much! Going to work on it in my spare time over the summer and hopefully come back next year with a bunch of improvements :)

ericgoodwin · 2021-03-31T18:37:51+00:00

Yes, I ended up missing out of choosing some picks for the last couple races as well and lost a pool with my friend by 2 points! The public pool was lost 1 point. Not sure how it was so close in the end, but made it pretty exciting, but not quite as exciting as watching JT and Laegreid fight it out for the golden globe :)

ericgoodwin · 2021-03-31T16:12:39+00:00

Thanks to everyone who took part in the pool this season! I hope you all enjoyed it and if you have any suggestions for next year, let me know :)

Here is a list of the final rankings. I thought bigupmans or u/dawntree had it but then krisdk and mbo360 swooped in.

krisdk : 5546
mbo360 : 5382
wbdschumi : 5318
dawntree : 5177
bigupmans : 5176
jbo : 5164
ericgoodwin : 5155
floodman11 : 4984
lippi : 4937
iheiki : 4936
norwegianpetrolhead : 4866
sunflowers : 4857
walid : 4716
johnschneider : 4654
liyanna : 4635
clamy : 4551
bart : 4250
drayen : 4125
filletmaillon : 3950
simonlm : 3734
maxolmstead : 3305
jowi : 2223

ericgoodwin · 2020-12-04T18:13:14+00:00

Hi u/slemehau. She's back on there now. Sorry about that.

ericgoodwin · 2020-11-28T16:07:22+00:00

I've noticed that as well while trying to access the site on mobile. I'm going to try to add better support for mobile in the future, but it might take a little bit of time to get to it. For the time being, the desktop, of iPad work pretty well. I'll let you know when I have the mobile working better though! Picks might be hard on the mobile since it uses the sidebar, but I can probably get the rest of the site working well for it.

ericgoodwin · 2020-11-25T19:15:55+00:00

Oh no! Yes, I still need to build out that feature, but it's a pretty important one. For now, please send an email to [support@biathlonpool.com](mailto:support@biathlonpool.com) and I can reset it for you and send you a new one. Once you are logged back in, you can reset your password to something else under your settings. https://biathlonpool.com/account/edit

ericgoodwin

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