Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2022

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Last modified: Monday, 17 October, 2022
 

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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Lisa has retained all of her Ready Steady Riders team from last year, for this season's line-up.

Steve also makes no change to the line-up of his Nightowlers team.

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

As last year, the season has been affected in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. There will again be no World Tour races in Australia to start the season and it remains to be seen if the rest of the planned calendar can go ahead as envisaged.

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			5			12	2	17	36
Philippe Gilbert			28						28
Mark Cavendish	28		15	4					47
Sam Bennett	3	1	25			7	10	18	64
Vincenzo Nibali			22			2			24
Arnaud Démare	16		31			19	14	20	100
Simon Yates	35		10			8	1		54
Fred Wright		6			4	17	17		44
Peter Sagan	7			7	2			9	25
Total	89	7	136	11	6	65	44	64	422

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	15								15
Rafal Majka	9			27					36
James Knox							8		8
Guilluame Martin	29		4			3	11	5	52
Caleb Ewan	17	6	3				23		49
Fernando Gaviria	6		35						41
Julian Alaphilippe	28	19				3	2		52
Daniel McLay	9	4					2		15
Greg van Avermaet	15		2			12			29
Total	128	29	44	27	0	18	46	5	297

See above for Nightowlers' results.