Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2021

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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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In contrast to last year, for this season's line-up, Lisa makes just one change to her Ready Steady Riders. As Carl Frederick Hagen has moved on after just one year, Lisa has drafted in Guilluame Martin.

Steve also makes a single change to the line-up of his Nightowlers team: bringing in Simon Yates in place of his brother Adam, who has moved on.

For a blow-by-blow account of our riders' scoring rides, see the accompanying blog.

As last year, the season was affected in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. There were no World Tour races in Australia to start the season and several other races cancelled or rescheduled but we managed a season of some sort in Europe and even an Olympic Games held over from last year.

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	42	11	1		9	15	6	20	104
Philippe Gilbert	10			2			9		21
Mark Cavendish		24		3	41	2	3	20	93
Sam Bennett	39	14	6						59
Vincenzo Nibali	8							4	12
Arnaud Démare	4	6	35				3	5	53
Simon Yates	15	29	35			1			80
Fred Wright								3	3
Peter Sagan	15		25	4					45
Total	133	84	103	9	50	18	21	52	470

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			3	11	5				19
Rafal Majka				12	5		8		25
James Knox	4	2							6
Guilluame Martin	11				13		9		33
Caleb Ewan	24	1	10	6			3		44
Fernando Gaviria	1		9			6	12		28
Julian Alaphilippe	40	51		3	14	8	38	35	189
Daniel McLay			7				1		8
Greg van Avermaet	18	15							33
Total	98	69	29	32	37	14	71	35	385

See above for Nightowlers' results.