Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2019

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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 equal 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 no changes to her Ready Steady Riders.

Steve also retains the same line-up as last year for his Nightowlers team.

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		9	20		1	10	3	65	108
Philippe Gilbert	9	25		2		3	15		54
Mark Cavendish		1							1
Alex Dowsett						4		10	14
Vincenzo Nibali	6	25	41		10				82
Rick Zabel			3	3					6
Adam Yates	61	28						11	100
André Griepel	3						2		5
Peter Sagan	20	12	6	8	30		26	12	114
Total	99	100	70	13	41	17	46	98	484

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		26			6		6	44
Rafal Majka	9	12	16			7	18	1	63
Marcel Kittel	14								14
Daniel Martin	10	23		8	1			7	49
Caleb Ewan	30	7	17		38		38		130
Fernando Gaviria	26		9			4	2	15	56
Julian Alaphilippe	66	54		4	125		6		255
Daniel McLay								3	3
Greg van Avermaet	44	4	42		4	35	52	8	169
Total	205	100	90	12	168	52	116	40	783

See above for Nightowlers' results.