Fantasy Cycling Teams - 2025

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Last modified: Friday, 3rd October, 2025
 

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 young Brit. Max Poole who comes in to replace the departed Caleb Ewan.

The retirement of Mark Cavendish at the end of last season led Steve to bring another younger rider into the line-up of his Nightowlers team: in the shape of promising Scotsman Oscar Onely.

The accompanying blog is in abeyance this year and, indeed, may not return.

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	2								2
Arnaud Démare	2		9	12					23
Bauke Mollema	3						5		8
Oscar Onely	35	8		27	29		13		112
Hugo Page				8					8
Ben Tullet	25			4			7		36
Fred Wright	3	4	3	2		8	13		33
Adam Yates	38		6		5		10		59
Simon Yates	9		58		10				77
Total	117	12	76	53	44	8	48	0	358

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	2		42		56
Rui Costa	7					2			9
Fernando Gaviria									0
James Knox									0
Daniel McLay									0
Rafal Majka			5	4		8			17
Guilluame Martin	3	6		6	3				18
Max Poole		6	7						13
Wout van Aert	4	68	17		12	3	15		119
Total	14	80	29	22	17	13	57	0	232

See above for Nightowlers' results.