Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2017

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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 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.

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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
	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
	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.