After doing a deep dive into Holeshot position averages (which you can read here), I wanted to look into championship riders holeshot stats over the 10 year period from 2015-2024. From 2015-2024, the championship rider’s combined season average holeshot position is…
Super Stats: Startcross Revisited, Reviewing 10 Years of Supercross Holeshot Data!
Earlier this year, I wrote an article on “Startcross” examining how rider’s holeshot positions at the white line was correlating to where they finished the race through the first 10 rounds of the season. You can read that here if you’re interested.…
Super Stats: Supercross Mid Decade Review
Hard to think we are already half way through the 2020s decade for Supercross! We started off with the decade with the 2020 season that was interrupted by covid and then had the 2021 adjusted schedule season. The last three…
Super Stats: How would the all-time SX points list change if we equally weighted points?
In 2024, the points system for Supercross changed back to 25 points for a victory. From 2018 through 2023, it was 26 points a victory. From 2017 and prior, a victory was worth 25 points. This mixed with the varying…
Super Stats: 2024 Motocross of Nations Preview and Historical Breakdown
The best race of the year! The 77th Motocross of Nations competition will be held this weekend at Matterly Basin in Great Britain. I was hoping to make the trip to England to attend this year but my schedule didn’t…
Super Stats: Phil Nicoletti Career in Review
Phil Nicoletti’s career came to an end after the last SMX race of the year in Las Vegas. Phil’s professional career spanned from 2006 through 2024. Time for a deep dive into his career statistics, lets break it down: Supercross…
Super Stats: How Many Riders Race 100% of the Races in a Year?
With the expansion of the SuperMotocross Playoff system in its second year, there has been a lot of discussion about the number of races in the year and whether it’s too many races. We are now at 31 total races,…
Super Stats: Pro Motocross Mid Decade Review
We are halfway through the 2020s decade in Pro Motocross after the 2024 season completed at Ironman. This decade of Pro Motocross began with the covid shortened 2020 season which had just 9 rounds. 2021 and 2022 were back to…
Super Stats: Motocross Champions Who Didn’t Lead the Most Laps
Through 9 rounds of the 2024 Pro Motocross season, Chase Sexton has a 28 point lead over Hunter Lawrence. However, Sexton is 3rd on the season in the 450 class for laps led. He trails both Jett Lawrence and Hunter…
Super Stats: 450 Motocross Average Qualifying Position vs Average Overall Finish
After looking into Phil Nicoletti’s average qualifying positions vs his career finishes and 450MX riders finishes in Moto 1 vs Moto 2. I thought I would review how riders fare in qualifying vs the actual race and how improves and…
Super Stats: 450 Class Rider Averages from Moto 1 to Moto 2
After Chase Sexton started the year stronger in the second moto vs the first moto it lead me to look into rider’s differences in Moto 1 vs Moto 2. Sexton has since gone 1-1 in back to back races but…
Super Stats: How many riders finish on the lead lap in 450MX?
In 450 Moto 1 at High Point this year, Jett Lawrence lapped up to 10th place which seemed higher than normal to me. Especially given that Justin Barcia, a rider with four career 450 overalls was two minutes and 28…
