Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2024

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Last modified: Sunday, 3rd November, 2024
 

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, with the exception of Wout van Aert who comes in to replace the retired Greg van Avermaet.

The retirement of Peter Sagan at the end of last season and the departure (after just a single season) of Jake Stewart, have led Steve to bring in couple of younger riders into the line-up of his Nightowlers team: Brit Ben Tullet and Frenchman Hugo Page. After his injury-curtailed Tour de France last season, Mark Cavendish continues on Steve's fantasy team for what must surely be his final year.

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
Sam Bennett			40	2	1	2			45
Mark Cavendish			3		6				9
Arnaud Démare							4		4
Bauke Mollema	2	6					12	1	21
Hugo Page	7			1		3			11
Ben Tullet									0
Fred Wright		1					1		2
Adam Yates	28	3		42	18	11			102
Simon Yates	6	5			13			7	31
Total	43	15	43	45	38	16	17	8	225

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	12	1	18			20			51
Rui Costa			4				17		4
Caleb Ewan	3					3			6
Fernando Gaviria			1		6				7
James Knox									0
Daniel McLay	1								1
Rafal Majka			3						3
Guilluame Martin	1	3			6	3			13
Wout van Aert	60		1		12	47			120
Total	77	4	23	4	24	73	17	0	222

See above for Nightowlers' results.