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We are about a month into the offseason and I already miss digging around in my database to find unique stats for the riders and races week in and week out.
If there is any stat, record, streak, leaderboard, or anything along those lines, that you guys are curious about, ask me here and I'll do my best to dive in and get an answer for you.
My database is only AMA SX, MX, and SMX so unfortunately I don't have anything for MXGPs or the old trans am races.
Fire away!
Which rider is the cutest
Of the 450 LCQ guys on the main event bubble, what are their average LCQ finishes over the last couple years?
Which Vital member had the most Down votes over the 2026 SMX season?
Here are the guys with the 10 best average finishes in 450 LCQs since 2022 along with appearances and top 4s (minimum 20 LCQ appearances in that time frame)
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How about comparing Prado’s quali, moto and overalls against anyone else on a KX in 2024?
Nice work
Starling is highly under rated.
How about the number of top 5 factory riders that have missed more than 2 races in a season over the past 25 years by year? Is the sport getting more dangerous? Is the longer season making it harder to make it to all races?
Comparing him to other Kawi riders with at least 6 races per season, the last two seasons.
Top 10 start to finish average position change (positive) for a single season since 2000.
I realize the way I said this may be confusing, so here's an example:
2020 Eli Tomac: 6.2 average positions gained per race (made up number)
Awesome question. I don't have anything in my DB to quickly distinguish factory riders so I went a little rogue. This chart shows how many riders completed every round and how many missed at least one. To qualify for the chart, riders had to have a career average finish of 10.00 or lower in the premier class. That should have pulled most factory level guys.
At a glance, I don't see much of a correlation one way or another. The two years that stick out to me are 2012 and 2020. Only ONE top rider in 2012 completed every round. 2020, I'm sure with the help of the quarantine break and the SLC residency, 9 riders completed every round, most since 1999.
I could dig deeper into this in the future for an ig post and make some cleaner graphics and charts. I just threw this together.
How does qualifying position (gate pick) compare to holeshot position?
That's a good way to qualify it and gets to the point. It looks to me like it is and always has been a dangerous sport. Not getting any better, not getting any worse.
Sorry to hog this, but is there a way to figure out if the field is actually the 'deepest field ever'?
Good one. And how has grates impacted that?
Thanks. I meant 2025, so thanks for getting that, appreciate your work.
Deepest field ever, you could compare 1st - 10th time gaps by year.
I'm going to be lazy and pull two bullet points from an ig post I had in the lead up to A1 this year analyzing Jett's chances at a title defense, so this will be slightly outdated now, but the point will still stand.
Jett will be facing arguably the deepest field of winners of all time. There will likely be seven previous Premier Class race winners (including himself) on the line at A1.
Seven race winners at A1 is not the most all time (it's 10, set in 1998 and 1999), but the potential lineup at A1 in 2025 could feature six different riders with at least eight wins in their career, which would be the most in Premier Class history to start a season.
There will likely be five former champions on the starting line of the main event at A1 in 2025 for the first time ever.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DEdiiYSRdtV/?img_index=5&igsh=bzkycTk3dXlodnQ3 Link to the full post
Start position is a stat I'm working on backdating this offseason. I currently only have it until 2013.
Minimum 10 races in the year to be included. The only rider that appears twice in the top ten is Broc Tickle! And if expanded to top 12, he would be in there again with an average positions gained of 3.07 in 2017
I like this question and I think I'll use it to make a more in depth post this off season. In the meantime, I dove into something similar, win % from qualifying positions, almost two years ago so I'll attach those graphics for now.
Pit Row
Most hole shots followed by a win. SX or MX.
Interesting. I had no recollection of Canard being that competitive all the way through 2015!
JoeyNovice. Are you a human android AI computer? Haha. These stats and graphs you make are insane and super interesting. If you ever need a kitchen or bathroom demoed I’m your guy. Statistics and computer science is completely foreign and fascinating to me. Great work my man!
Most # of attempts to qualify, with out making the main. Alex Nagy??
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Interesting stuff no doubt...you doing this in Access? The data you use, was it all hand entered by you or have you found other sources where you're able to import some of it?
How about riders that qualified through the last chance and then went on to win the race?
Person who had the most top 5 finishes in an LCQ, but never made a main event. Premier class.
Here are the five guys with the most qualifying appearances without making a main event, no class distinction.
Nagy has 4 main event starts!
The SevenDeuceDeuce's brother Tyler Enticknap finished fifth five times since AMA reverted back to taking four out of the LCQs in 2014. He's the only guy with more than 1
If Ricky, James and Chad didn’t exist, how many titles would K-Dub have?
Great work. I’d love to have a database like that but never had the time to compile all the data.
I’m a great believer in data - it dispels so many myths and false beliefs like the one above about riders missing rounds as a correlation to the danger of the sport.
If those guys didn't exist: 7
1997 125 MX (Carmichael)
2001 250 MX (Carmichael)
2003 250 MX (Carmichael)
2004 250 SX (Reed)
2005 250 MX (Carmichael)
2006 250 MX (Carmichael)
2008 250 SX (Reed)
A few more if you include Lamson, Albertyn, and Dungey.
1996 125 MX (Lamson)
1999 250 MX (Albertyn)
2010 450 SX (Dungey)
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