Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2012

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Last modified: Tuesday, 8 May, 2018
 

As has become our custom, Lisa & I will be adding to our interest in this year's professional cycling season by following the fortunes of our own fantasy cycling teams. We've been doing this since 1997. We select our teams on the basis of each rider "costing" his total UCI ranking points earned last season divided by fifteen and rounded to the nearest five, with a minimum cost of twenty points and a maximum of 200.  We allow each team 700 points on this basis, with nine riders to be selected. No more than two riders in each team can be selected from the same real life trade team.  Throughout the season we score our riders performances in all the major races according to the points system adapted from one used by Roger Hughes in his Fantasy Cycling League. The tables below summarise the fortunes of our teams throughout the season.

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For this season's line-up, Steve makes three changes to his Nightowlers team from last year. He lost Mark Cavendish to Sky, Carlos Sastre retired and Stijn Devolder was not deemed worth keeping having failed to trouble the scorers. New to the team in their place are Philippo Pozzato, Andrew Fenn and Damiano Cunego.

For her part, Lisa has only had to make one change to her Ready Steady Riders, brining in Daniel Martin in place of the retired Roger Hammond.

For a blow-by-blow details of our riders' successes throughout the season, see the accompanying blog.

See below for Ready Steady Riders' results.
 

N i g h t o w l e r s
Rider	Period Scores								Total Score
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Philippo Pozzato	12	18							30
Philippe Gilbert		23	4		2		11	49	89
Andrew Fenn			2				2	2	6
Thor Hushovd									0
Damiano Cunego	11	37	18						66
Alessandro Ballan	9	33				3	1	14	60
David Millar			1		6				7
Andy Schleck									0
Adam Blythe			1						1
Total	32	111	26	0	8	3	14	65	259

R e a d y   S t e a d y   R i d e r s
Rider	Period Scores								Total Score
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Alessandro Petacchi	3		10		4			2	19
Robbie McEwan									0
Samuel Sanchez	24	52						19	95
Daniel Martin	15	18	10					14	57
Tom Boonen	67	50		8		3	32	24	184
Alberto Contador						12	82	28	122
Thomas Voeckler		47	11		29	2	6	9	104
Michael Rogers	32		31	22	5	5	4		99
Fabian Cancellera	23			5	19	4			51
Total	164	167	62	35	57	26	124	96	731

See above for Nightowlers' results.