Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2023

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Last modified: Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
 

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.

The retirements of Vincenzo Nibali and Philippe Gilbert at the end of last season have led Steve to make some changes to the line-up of his Nightowlers team: Adam Yates returns to the team after two years elsewhere and Jake Stewart joins. Having belatedly sorted out a real-world contract, Mark Cavendish appears on Steve's fantasy team for one more year at least.

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

After three years badly affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, this year there is hope that 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
Sam Bennett	11		2	1			1	1	16
Mark Cavendish	1	11	12	4	4				32
Arnaud Démare			23	22		12	4	3	64
Bauke Mollema	5		1						6
Peter Sagan	2		5	2					9
Jake Stewart									0
Fred Wright		5		3					8
Adam Yates	28		34	24	61	18	27	8	200
Simon Yates	42	7			37		19	10	115
Total	89	23	77	56	102	30	51	22	450

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
Julian Alaphilippe	24			11			5	3	43
Rui Costa	60					5	5	27	97
Caleb Ewan	12	3	1		6				22
Fernando Gaviria	27		3			2			32
James Knox		10		2			1		13
Daniel McLay	3								3
Rafal Majka	1		6	2	5	11			25
Guilluame Martin	3	8		10	9	6	4	11	51
Greg van Avermaet									0
Total	130	21	10	25	20	24	15	41	286

See above for Nightowlers' results.