Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2016

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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 two changes to her Ready Steady Riders: Michael Rogers and Thomas Voeckler are let go to be replaced by Rui Costa and Julian Alaphilippe.

Steve makes no changes to his Nightowlers team.

Here's hoping for a more equal contest than last year's. 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
Joaquin Rodriguez	5	17			22	22			66
Philippe Gilbert	1			32		5	5	10	53
Mark Cavendish		14		2	30			29	75
Alex Dowsett						5		1	6
Vincenzo Nibali	8	3	63		4				78
Rick Zabel									0
Adam Yates				10	25				35
André Griepel	1	11	20	9	17		6	2	66
Peter Sagan	93	27		9	66		63	60	318
Total	108	72	83	62	164	32	74	102	697

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	6	29	11	9	8	3	5		71
Richie Porte	56			20	22				98
Marcel Kittel	5	20	18		24		20		87
Daniel Martin	21	15		21	15	1	1		74
Tom Boonen		18				25	20	18	81
Alberto Contador	47	34		15		27	21		144
Julian Alaphilippe		29		12	5	12	17		75
Ryder Hesjedal									0
Fabian Cancellera	47	18	1	4		20			110
Total	182	163	30	81	74	88	84	18	720

See above for Nightowlers' results.