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 750 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.
For this season's line-up, Lisa makes four changes to her Ready Steady Riders: Richie Porte, Tom Boonen, Ryder Hesjedal and the retired Fabian Cancellara are let go to be replaced by Rafal Majka, Caleb Ewan, Daniel McLay and Hugh Carthy.
Steve brings in Bauke Mollema to his Nightowlers team in place of the retired Joaquin Rodríguez.
Here's hoping for a nice tight contest like last year's see-saw season that almost saw Steve snatch victory on the very last day of the season. For a blow-by-blow account of our riders' scoring rides, 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 |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
Bauke Mollema | 22 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 20 | 89 | ||
Philippe Gilbert | 67 | 50 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 153 | |
Mark Cavendish | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
Alex Dowsett | 2 | 5 | 7 | ||||||
Vincenzo Nibali | 32 | 7 | 53 | 50 | 142 | ||||
Rick Zabel | 20 | 20 | |||||||
Adam Yates | 37 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 80 | |||
André Griepel | 11 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 32 | 20 | 103 | ||
Peter Sagan | 86 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 24 | 29 | 35 | 195 | |
Total | 229 | 63 | 108 | 13 | 37 | 69 | 124 | 153 | 796 |
R e a d y S t e a d y R i d e r s | |||||||||
Rider | Period Scores | Total Score |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
Rui Costa | 33 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 63 | |||
Rafal Majka | 15 | 3 | 26 | 23 | 8 | 75 | |||
Marcel Kittel | 7 | 20 | 3 | 30 | 9 | 69 | |||
Daniel Martin | 39 | 36 | 20 | 24 | 4 | 123 | |||
Caleb Ewan | 20 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 44 | ||||
Alberto Contador | 67 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 30 | 135 | |||
Julian Alaphilippe | 44 | 2 | 8 | 40 | 94 | ||||
Daniel McLay | 1 | 20 | 21 | ||||||
Hugh Carthy | 0 | ||||||||
Total | 225 | 80 | 47 | 39 | 66 | 36 | 58 | 73 | 624 |
See above for Nightowlers' results.