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Station Profile Methodology

How we calculate strengths and weaknesses on athlete profile pages.

The idea

Comparing an athlete's splits against everyone in a division isn't very useful — a fast athlete would appear strong at everything, and a slower athlete weak at everything. The Station Profile solves this by comparing against a cohort of athletes with similar finish times.

This answers the more interesting question: “Among people at my level, where do I gain or lose time?”

How it works

  1. Pick a division. If the athlete has raced in multiple divisions, you can switch between them using the dropdown. Each division is analyzed separately.
  2. Find the Personal Best. We take the athlete's fastest finish time (PB) in the selected division and gender.
  3. Build the cohort. We select all results across all events in the same division and gender with a finish time within ±10% of the PB. This creates a peer group of athletes performing at a similar overall level. If fewer than 30 results fall in this band, we widen it to ±15%.
  4. Compare station splits. For each of the 9 stations (8 workouts + running total), we compute the cohort's average split time and compare it to the athlete's own average split time across their races.
  5. Score. The percentage difference is calculated as: (cohort avg − athlete avg) ⁄ cohort avg × 100. A positive value means the athlete is faster than their peers at that station (a strength); negative means slower (a weakness).

Reading the chart

  • Larger area = the station is a relative strength compared to peers.
  • Smaller area = the station is a relative weakness.
  • Green labels mark the strongest station; red labels mark the weakest.
  • Hover over any point to see the exact split times and percentage difference.

Example

An athlete with a 1:10:00 PB in HYROX PRO Men would be compared against all PRO Men results between 1:03:00 and 1:17:00. If the cohort averages 5:30 on SkiErg and the athlete averages 5:05, their SkiErg shows as +7.6% — a clear strength. If they average 6:15 on Sled Pull while the cohort averages 5:45, that shows as −8.7% — a station to work on.

Limitations

  • Cohort averages include results from different events and conditions (elevation, weather, course layout). Station times can vary between venues.
  • Athletes with only one race have a single data point — the profile becomes more reliable with more races.
  • The ±10% band is a balance between having enough peers for statistical significance and keeping the cohort relevant. Very fast or very slow athletes may have smaller cohorts.