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General / WCS 2024

« on: January 06, 2024, 03:31:28 AM »

A new season starts in the CFF League of the World Cycling Stats !

Have fun and good luck everyone in 2024 !

Jumbo-Visma dominated in 2023, including winning all 3 big tours.
In the picture the final top 3 GC of the Vuelta ; Vingegaard ( Tour de France winner ), Kuss ( Vuelta winner ) and Roglič ( Giro winner ).

To new participants who want to join

the cycling for fun subleague in WCS :

Quote

1. Click this link : http://www.worldcyclingstats.com/en/games

2. Create an account ( it is free ).

3. Join the WCS subleague = cycling for fun
Click a tour or race that is open for participation,
then click leagues, now you see a list of all subleagues, search for cycling for fun and click it.
To join, you have to use a code/password :
by pm you can ask this password to one of the CFF participants who already joined.
You have to use the password just once, after that, in all other tours and races of this and next seasons you are automatically in.
Keep the password secret please, only mention it to a new participant who wants to join.

It is the WCS subleague cycling for fun, so it is for CFF managers of the normal CFF game.
But it is no problem if there are exceptions, for example a friend of you outside the normal CFF game who wants to join.
In this case, please inform one of the administrators ( = Kalarratas and Vos ). More participants = more fun.
Also ex-CFF managers are very welcome to join the WCS cycling for fun league. Perhaps a motivation to start again in CFF as well.

4. You can change the language ; at the top of your WCS start page ( English, Dutch, Spanish or French ).

5. To play this game costs almost no time, just a few minutes to pick 15 cyclists and answer the extra questions.
You can also read a preview of the tour or race, a lot of previews are online. But this is not necessary to win in the CFF League.

It is up to you how often you want to join in the races and tours of 2024.
There are many CFF managers who join so now and then. Also some CFF managers join just the important races and tours.

6. Do not forget to activate the 15 picks and extra questions with the select button at the bottom of your screen.
After you picked your 15 cyclists and answered the extra questions ; nothing more to do, just relax and enjoy how your picks are doing.

This 2024 cycling season is including the Olympic Games in Paris.

In the CFF League, the prestigious Olympic medals in Tokyo 2021 were won by ;

Combuijs

Animatoca

azerite

the first 3 tours of 2024 are already open to join ;

3 days and 18½ hours left to join.
previous winner ; Vos ( 23 ).

5 days and 22 hours left to join.
previous winner ; ophiuko ( 23 )

9 days and 22 hours left to join.
previous winners ; ophiuko ( 23 ), 5o&Tapa ( 20 ), AJFactoryCycling ( 19 ), Averatalm ( 18 ), Kalarratas ( 17 ), MarnixStar ( 16 ).

NT Teams / Australia s34

« on: August 26, 2023, 12:37:41 PM »

Unfortunately again not a good NT season schedule, because this is in favor of (flat-)hills-specialists, and Australia is not good at that.
And no expectations this season, because Australia is not good in 4 out of the 7 races, see stars-rating :

season 34 schedule =

1. ⭐

Galicia FFFFH 145 km

2. ⭐⭐⭐

French Pyrenees FMMMM 205,5 km

3. ⭐

Mediterranean coast FFFFF 173,5 km

4. ⭐

Virginia TT-FFFFF 53 km

5. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Castilla- La Mancha HHFCC^ 180 km

6. ⭐

Emilia-Romagna HHHHH 153 km

7. ⭐⭐

Breskens CFCCC 190 km

NT Teams / Australia s33

« on: July 07, 2023, 01:02:09 PM »

NT season 33 ; even worse !

After 2 seaons with bad NT calendars, I was hoping ánd assuming that it would be better now, but it is getting even worse.

Because now there is a mountain time trial, and Australia does not have climb-TT-specialists.
And in such a race, I cannot compensate the lack of quality by a good tactical race, so this mountain TT race is a certain zero points.
It is even very ironic that a mountain TT race makes a NT season calendar unsuited,
because in by far the most of previous seasons, it would have been very benificial to Australia.
An unfortunate timing of the 2nd time ever that a mountain TT race is on a NT calendar.

With a hills TT race instead of the mountain TT race, this calendar would have looked better.
Also a hills-sprint race is much more prefered than a flat-sprint race.
I guess that Australia needs a new NT manager for next season, because I have too much bad luck in this game.
No doubt to me, that when someone else takes over, that there will be 2 cobblehills races next season.

Anyway, it is what it is. But battling for a podiumplace seems out of the question. A miracle is needed to achieve that.
Because even if(= very unlikely ) this season goes more than perfect in all 5 tactical races,
still it wil depend on the other countries ; they need some bad races ánd they need to devide the points more or less equaly.

season 33 schedule =

1.

Catalonia HFFFH 191 km
⭐
Australia does not have high ranked hills specialists, and I can use the same text as in previous season :
"But despite Derek Jons is ranked as pure-hills specialist, I estimate that he seems quite capable of scoring points in this flat-hills race.
Although, due to the hard wind, this race is tactically very difficult and even unpredictable. A disaster race + 0 points is possible too".
In previous season Derek Jons finished as 11th in a FFFFH race, what was a pretty good result.

2.

Duitama MMMMM 265 km
⭐⭐⭐
Australia has a top contender with Rick Cann ( nr 5 pure-climb of CFF ), but his support is not good enough.
In previous season he finished as 7th in a pure climb race, what was bad and even embarrassing.
On the bright side, Rick Cann won this Duitama race back in season 30, in a tactical superb race.
But on the less bright side, now he has to do it without the important s4 helper.

3.

Champs-Élysées FFFFF 144,5 km
⭐
Maybe for the first time ever, there is no top-flat-sprinter anymore, the excellent generation Stamer-Blix-Janson is too old now.
Probably it is up to a less good 25yo teamcaptain now, who should be able to score a few points if the tactics go very well.

4.

Eure-et-Loir TT-FFFFF 53 km
⭐⭐
In previous season an all time low record of just 110 points in a NT flat time trial.
But I had the impression that Australia was very unfortunate, so, one star extra in the hope that now it will be an "average-luck" TT.
Of course, with the most unlucky CFF manager as Australian NT manager, this hope is probably in vain.

Île-de-France FFFHC^ 134 km
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Australia is amazing in cobblehills, and in previous season the best scoring nation with a total of 320 points.
And we are even stronger now, with the new 24yo teamcaptain Shaun Sifford, the nr 2 in the CFF ranking.

6.

Col d'Eze TT-MMMMM 10 km
zero stars
Well, to look at this race in a positive way ; this is an excellent opportunity to select many young xp-cyclists.

7.

Virginia CCCCC 259 km
⭐⭐
Bob Pernom ( nr 7 flat-cobble ranking ) should do well if the tactics go right.
In previous season he had a good result with a 5th place in a CFFCC race.
But he likes cobble races with flat sections much more, than this long distance pure cobble race. Still, he should be able to finish top10.

NT Teams / Australia s32

« on: May 19, 2023, 01:04:05 PM »

NT season 32 ; again not a good season schedule.

Because this season schedule is for (flat-)hills-specialists, with 2 hills races. And Australia has low ranked hills specialists.
And it would have been much better if there was a hill-sprint race instead of a flat-sprint race.
Also a hills-TT race would have been much more benificial to Australia, than a flat-TT race.

But I'm already happy that this schedule has not 2 flat-TT races, what was the case in previous season.
It is hard to predict what Australia can achieve in this again not good season schedule. These are the 7 NT races :

season 32 schedule =

1.

South Australia FFFFH 132 km
⭐⭐
Australia does not have high ranked hills specialists.
But despite Derek Jons is ranked as pure-hills specialist, I estimate that he seems quite capable of scoring points in this flat-hills race.
Although, due to the hard wind, this race is tactically very difficult and even unpredictable. A disaster race + 0 points is possible too.

2.

Bola del Mundo MMMMM 169 km
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Australia has a top contender with Rick Cann ( nr 3 pure-climb of CFF ) who is going to try to compete for victory.
In previous season 2nd, but a bit worrying is that his support is devalued this season. Hopefully he can do it on his own in s4 + s5.

3.

Bellinzona FFFFF 120 km
⭐⭐⭐
Hopefully the 32yo Horace Stamer is still good enough to score a top result.
Of course, it is a NT sprint and then anything can happen, from excellent race + top result, to disaster race + zero points.
In previous season Stamer dropped unexpectedly in s4, could return in s5, but a dissapointing 13th place due to the effort to return.
The Australian flat-sprint future does not look bright, because since many seasons, next season we will be missing a real top sprinter.

4.

Bourgogne TT-FFFFF 35 km
⭐⭐
Perhaps 2 stars is even too much, because in the normal flat TT of previous season ; 9th and 20th, what is just 140 points.
Also this season I expect something like this, but as minimum result, because there is a possibility ( with luck ) of scoring more points.

5.

northern Switzerland CCHHC^ 183 km
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A very few foreign amazing cobblehills specialists seem very hard to beat, and therefore no victory is expected
Nevertheless the max. of 5 stars, because Australia can be one of the few top scoring nations in this race, maybe even the best.
But then it has to go much and much better as in previous season, where Australia scored a dissapointing total of 180 points.

6.

Ohio, USA HHHHH 175 km
⭐
Australians in the golden CFF hills ranking = nrs 30, 33, 40, 50, 84, 147, 170, 172.
So, the expectation should be very low.
But hopefull is that Derek Jons proved that he can achieve a superb result sometimes, like in previous season with a 7th place.

7.

Ciudad Real CFFCC 230 km
⭐⭐
Currently we have the nr 7 flat-cobble specialist of CFF, Bob Pernom, who should do well, if the tactics go right.
In previous season he had a horrible race with as result a very bad 12th place.

NT Teams / Australia s31

« on: March 31, 2023, 01:45:26 PM »

From Australian perspective ; Dark clouds above NT season 31.

season 31 schedule =

= what a big bummer ! !

Because there are 2 flat time trials.

It is even an ironic dissapointing season schedule, because in all previous seasons ; 2x flat TT would have been super positive.
But this season 31 ; the first time that it is very negative, and of course in the first time that I get 2x flat TT as Australian NT manager.
I guess luck is not on my side, because 2x flat TT in one season happened at least 3 times before, and I did the NT job by far the most.

Well, let's make the best of this season 31 despite this is already 100% certain ; it will be my ( by far-) worst NT result ever.
Because I was 13 times the Australian NT manager, and despite no luck with NT schedules = 2x 2nd and 11x world champion.

Thanks for all the congratulations ( = none ) of the surprising, amazing previous NT season,
and thanks for all the votes ( = none, because for the 5th time in a row automatically NT manager as 26 times Australian champion ).
Maybe explained by that there are just a very few (more or less-) active Australian managers, probably you can count them on 1 hand.

And perhaps it is even positive that it is me who has the NT job this season,
because this bad season schedule would suck even much more for someone who made his debut as Australian NT manager.

1.

Caltagirone HHHHH 198 km
2.

La Rosière MMMMM 110 km
3.

Venray FFFFF 204 km
4.

Adelaide TT-FFFFF 88 km
5.

Harelbeke FCHC^C^ 200 km
6.

Doha TT-FFFFF 40 km
7.

Reims CFFCC 226 km

Well, it is clear that the season ranking is out of sight, so let's focus on another objective ;
try to get a race victory somewhere, and also in the-most-NT-race-victories-ranking Australia is the undisputed leader.

NT Teams / Australia s30

« on: February 10, 2023, 01:21:57 PM »

A new NT season starts !

NT season 30 ; the "Downfall" of Australia.

According to me it is the end of an extreme successful era, because it seems unrealistic to expect another Australian WC title.
The current Australian quality level is not high enough and this NT season schedule is not favorable, mainly due to the hills-climb race.
It even could be possible that a podiumplace is not achievable this season.

But then again, if all Australian tactics go right, and if rival countries make big mistakes, and/or if the points are very divided ;
who knows what might be possible, perhaps there will be a world champion with a relative low amount of points.
Only then Australia has still a chance to battle for the WC title. But the ( already optimistic ) season goal = a podium place.

I added stars in the NT races, to show "my expectations" of that race.
The stars rating is from zero ( = too bad ) to max. five ( = excellent ) stars, and I added a "subjective explanation" text.
It could be that "my expectations" are way too positive or way too negative, we will see what happens.
But one thing is certain ; Australia really has to battle for a good result in the season ranking.
What that result will be in the end, I have no clue.
But I expect that this NT season will be the end of an extreme successful era, and that another nation will be the world champion.

season 30 schedule =

1.

Baar HHHHH 118 km
⭐
Australia does not have high ranked hills specialists,
but maybe the surprising new 1A world champion Derek Jons ( nr 42 in the ranking ) can get an unexpected good result.

2.

Duitama MMMMM 265 km
⭐⭐⭐⭐
In previous season the Australian teamcaptain finished as 7th on 0:31" in this exact same race.
This could ánd should be much better, and I expect that he can ride at least podium if the tactics go very well.
Australia is good in the mountains, and hopefully a few extra points of others, just like in previous season ( extra 130 points ).
Despite this, no 5-stars-rating, because at least one other nation will score more total points, and most likely a victory is not possible.

3.

Montreux FFFFF 131 km
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Australia has a top contender with excellent support, in previous season he finished as 2nd.
But no 5-stars-rating, because Australia was 3rd in the day-ranking of total points,
ánd because in a NT sprint race anything can happen, including a disaster race with zero points for a favorite.

4.

Breda TT-FFFFF 36 km
⭐⭐⭐
Perhaps 3 stars is even too high as expectation, because I expect way less points as in previous season ( = 845 points ).
Hopefully the old TT specialists are still good enough to score a decent amount of points.
If not, we depend on the few below 30yo TT specialists, who finished mostly just outside the points in previous seasons.

5.

Vlaanderen FCHC^H 256 km
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thé new speciality of Australia ( instead of TT ), because we have a bunch of young and amazing cobblehills specialists.
Unfortunately there are a few foreign rivals who are ( much ) better, and therefore no 5-stars-rating.
But right now it's difficult what to expect, because RVV has a different race GV as the standard cobblehills GV.
It is certainly possible that Australia will be the best scoring nation in future NT cobblehills races, but most likely not yet this season.

6.

Andorra MDHHM 187 km
⭐
There are just 4 Australians with a golden climbhills icon in the CFF-climb-ranking ( = nrs 103, 256, 302, 316 ).
The "best" one is not really suited for this specific race where a very high climb skill for sure makes a difference.
It could be 0 points, but still an optimistic one star because I like to think that top20 is possible due to good tactics & teamcaptain bonus.

7.

Breskens CFCCC 190 km
⭐⭐
Currently we have the nr 7 flat-cobble specialist of CFF, who finished 5th in the CFFCC race of previous season.
Hopefully he can achieve such a good result again.
Only a 2-stars-rating, because on flat-cobble, it is possible that some rival nations make a big points difference towards Australia.

General / WCS 2023

« on: January 08, 2023, 03:24:13 PM »

Van Aert, Vingegaard and Pogačar in the Tour de France of 2022.

A new season starts in the CFF League of the World Cycling Stats !

For new participants who want to join the cycling for fun subleague in WCS :

Quote from: Vos on January 24, 2021, 09:43:13 AM

1. Click this link : http://www.worldcyclingstats.com/en/games

2. Create an account ( it is free ).

3. Join the WCS subleague = cycling for fun
Click a tour or race that is open for participation,
then click leagues, now you see a list of all subleagues, search for cycling for fun and click it.
To join, you have to use a code/password : by pm you can ask this password to one of the CFF participants who already joined.
You have to use the password just once, after that, in all other tours and races of this season you are automatically in.
Keep the password secret please, just mention it to a new CFF participant who wants to join.

It is the WCS subleague cycling for fun, so it is for CFF managers of the normal CFF game.
But it is no problem if there are a few exceptions, for example a friend of you outside the normal CFF game who wants to join.
In this case, please inform one of the administrators ( = Kalarratas and Vos ) about this.
Ex-CFF managers are also very welcome to join the WCS cycling for fun league. Perhaps a motivation to start again in CFF as well.

4. You can change the language ; at the top of your WCS start page ( English, Dutch, Spanish or French ).

5. To play this game costs almost no time, just a few minutes to pick 15 cyclists and answer the extra questions.
You can also read a preview of the tour or race, a lot of previews are online. But this is not necessary, in my experience sometimes better results when you do the 15 picks + extra questions very fast without reading a preview.

It is up to you how often you want to join in the races and tours of 2022.
There are many CFF managers who join so now and then. Also some CFF managers join just the important races and tours.

6. After you picked your 15 cyclists and answered the extra questions ; nothing more to do, just relax and enjoy how your picks are doing. Do not forget to activate the 15 picks and extra questions with the select button at the bottom of your screen.

7. Enjoy and have fun !

WCS schedule January =

11-01-23

2 days and 6½ hours left to join.
no previous winners.
15-01-23

6 days left to join.
no previous winners.
17-01-23

8 days left to join.
previous winners ; 5o&Tapa ( 20 ), AJFactoryCycling ( 19 ), Averatalm ( 18 ), Kalarratas ( 17 ), MarnixStar ( 16 ).
22-01-23

not yet open to join.
previous winner ; Kalarratas ( 21 ).
22-01-23

not yet open to join.
previous winners ; Vos ( 20 ), Tarod ( 19 ), oldmen ( 18 ), Thorin ( 17 ).
23-01-23

not yet open to join.
previous winners ; Patrick Kok ( 20 ), pizzaboys ( 19 ), Averatalm ( 18 ).
28-01-23

women's race, not yet open to join.
no previous winners.
29-01-23

men's race, not yet open to join.
previous winners ; Vos ( 20 ), AJFactoryCycling ( 19 ), Thorin ( 18 ).
29-01-23

not yet open to join.
previous winners ; pizzaboys ( 22 ), Patrick Kok ( 21 ).
30-01-23

not yet open to join.
previous winners ; Vos ( 22 ), azerite ( 20 ).

Have fun and good luck everyone !

General Forum / Season 29

« on: January 01, 2023, 06:04:00 AM »

After the excellent stage 4 victory in Paris Nice of climb-TT specialist

Emil Osland ( 28 ),
his 4 PN-teammates were extra motivated in the next stage 5 :

SPORTLIFE dominated this stage !

All 4 outsprinted the other 17 rivals of the front group.
1

Ferenc Estélyi ( 33 )
2

Silvino Afonso ( 33 )
3

Maria Vasconcelos ( 32 )
4

Deviko Fetisov ( 29 )

All 4 are also riding the Tirreno Adriatico.
Only Osland is replaced by 4 times American champion

David Beckham ( 33 ).
To give teamcaptain Fetisov extra support in the mountains, because he is going for a top GC result.
Despite that Fetisov does not even have a sprint icon ; he has just bronze on tours, silver on climb, and bronze on climb-TT.
But he is not bad in sprinting, what his 4th place in a free role showed in climbsprint stage 5 PN ( see picture ).

Best wishes for 2023 everyone !

NT Teams / Australia s29

« on: December 26, 2022, 10:01:04 AM »

No candidates Down Under, so, again I'm automaticaly the NT manager.
Let's try to make the best of it, and merry christmas everyone !

RACE 1 : CHRISTMAS RACE in SPAIN

11ºC

Australia NT selection :

Paddy Friend ( 32 ) KunTeam
James Bush ( 33 ) Kelme4ever
Derek Jons ( 27 ) RHyNeStOnEs
Callum Carpenter ( 29 ) TeaMetal
Rob Mitchell ( 31 ) Speedbird
Virgil Seaman ( 24 ) Álvaro_Pino_Boys ( debut )
Nate Gailes ( 33 ) Elgrand
Natham Middleton ( 27 ) Hero_cycling
Ian Emerton ( 30 ) RajenKujen

The s1 start was excellent, all 9 Aussies in the front peleton of 76.
But in s2 it seemed to go horribly wrong ; free role Bush, teamcaptain Friend and 3 helpers dropped to the 2nd group.
A perfect helper's job of Mitchell in s3, who brought Friend back into the front peleton of 61, incl. 4 other helpers who had a good s2.
In s4 those 4 other helpers dropped, but Mitchell was on fire and kept Friend in the front group of 34.
s5 results =

6º Paddy Friend 0:00"
19º Rob Mitchell 0:36"
20º Derek Jons 0:36"

A decent/good result of the nr 7 in the flat-hills ranking, noted that some rivals listed as pure hills specialists, can be great on flat too.
It is clear that this season the individual WC jersey goes to a flat-hills specialist ( 2x flathills races this season ),
and it seems Paddy Friend has not really a chance anymore due to this result and his nr 21 position in the golden hills ranking.
Of course, he is going to try it anyway in NT race 6.

Australia starts with a 5º place in the season ranking, 200 points behind leader Switzerland.
Next week we celebrate new years day in Colombia, with hopefully good Australian results in this brutal mountain race of 265 km.

General Forum / Season 28

« on: November 04, 2022, 02:21:07 PM »

Recently the route of the Tour de France 2023 is announced, see picture.
In CFF there is a very different TdF route :

Tour de France, CFF season 28 =
stage 1

mountains ( Alpes )
stage 2

flatcobble ( this race is approx. 180 to 120 km south of Paris )
stage 3

hills-time-trial ( Saint-Étienne, east France, 60 km southwest of Lyon )
stage 4

sprint ( south France, north of the Pyrenees )
stage 5

flatcobble-sprint ( Calais to Antwerpen )
stage 6

sprint ( south France, mediterranean coast )
stage 7

mountains ( Pyrenees )
stage 8

sprint ( Nancy, northeast France )
stage 9

mountains ( Alpes )
stage 10

mountains ( Alpes )

Have fun and good luck in season 28 everyone !

NT Teams / Australia s28

« on: November 04, 2022, 10:56:18 AM »

A new NT season starts !

There were no NT candidates, so I'm automatically the Australian NT manager and I will try to make the best out of this season 28.
The season goal is another world championship ; so far Australia was 14 times ( out of the 26 NT seasons ) the world champion.
Also nice ; after previous season with 3 race victories, Australia is the new leader in the ranking of most NT race victories ( see medal table ).

It is clear that this NT season is for flat-sprinters, and we have 2 high ranked top-sprinters ; Horace Stamer and Jasper Caan.
But previous season showed what we all knew ; NT sprint races are always erratic, unpredictable and a tactical gamble.
Teamcaptain Jasper Caan had a very bad, unlucky sprint race and finished just as 24º, what is zero points.
And he was one of the top favorites with on his palmares 2 NT sprint victories ( in s24 and in s26 ).
Hopefully this season two top results in both sprint races, because if it goes as in previous s27, then probably not another WC title.

But in theory this NT season looks very good for Australia if both sprint races go very well,
ánd if so, then Jasper Caan is one of the top contenders to compete for the individual WC jersey.
What is a season goal too, despite his dissapointing 24º place in previous season.

season 28 schedule =

1.

Baar HHHHH 118 km
2.

Sestrière FMDMM 190 km
3.

Lleida FFFFF 186 km
4.

Milano TT-FFFFF 29 km
5.

Montaicino FFF^FC^ 222 km
6.

Revel FFFFF 239,5 km
7.

Roubaix FCFCC 259 km

General Forum / Season 27

« on: September 19, 2022, 12:39:59 PM »

Season 27 ; world championship climb race in Colombia ( Duitama WC )

previous winners Duitama WC ;

season 18

Arnfinn Mikalsen ( TeamEuroscalt )
season 9

Valentin Crouzel ( SPORTLIFE )
season 7

Peeter Toode ( Codex )
season 5

Ibragim Palachev ( Oska )
season 2

Carl Martinussen ( Flyvende_hjul )

Have fun & good luck everyone in season 27 !

Bugs / white jersey bug

« on: September 18, 2022, 07:50:04 AM »

There is a bug with awarding the white jersey in season 26.
It is awarded to Erling Brynildsen ( BorinotTeam ), who "won" also the white jersey in season 22 with zero points.
In fact, he was fired the day after he got the white jersey of season 22.
What makes it a bug, when a cyclist that does not excist for four seasons, wins again the white jersey in season 26.

Maybe this bug is caused by that season 22 and season 26 were the only two seasons where u23 cyclists did not score points in div.1A.

NT Teams / Australia s27

« on: September 18, 2022, 06:53:20 AM »

A new NT season starts !

A pretty common NT schedule, with one exception ; a climb-sprint race, for the first time ever a NT race.
Also remarkable ; most races are in Switzerland.
This season there will be less TT points, and Australia is not good in flat-cobbles despite having a new 24yo teamcaptain on flat-cobble.
Still, if the tactics go well, it should be possible to battle for the podiumplaces or even battle for the worldchampionship.
Of course, another WC title is the season goal, although I did not look yet if Australia is good in the exceptional NT race 6.

season 27 schedule =

1.

Baar HHHHH 118 km
2.

Leukerbad MDFMM 155 km
3.

Bellinzona FFFFF 120 km
4.

Zaragoza TT-FFFFF 52 km
5.

Waremgem FHC^C^C^ 180 km
6.

Genève FMMDF 150 km
7.

Fribourg CCCCC 189 km

I have some computer issues, also with the Australian NT evaluator that seems to be gone.
But luckily I found an old Dutch NT evaluator that has almost all GV's exactly the same as in the Australian NT evaluator.

RACE 1 : SWISS HILLS

26ºC

Baar, Switzerland,
Probably every point is needed this season, so, Australia goes full power with the best 9 hills specialists in this NT race 1.
Even 34yo Fergus Emerton is selected because he is a better helper due to his max. xp, compared to a few with simular GV but low xp.

For once I will mention my estimated GV's for this specific short pure hills race.
( Carpenter has a little misleading high GV due to 100 on hills-skill, therefore he is ranked lower in my selection. )
Of course it is possible that my GV estimation is not entirely correct or even not correct at all.
If it is a bit correct, then it is clear that we do not have a top contender. But if the tactics go very well, top 10 should be possible for Bush.

Australia NT selection :

91,16 James Bush ( 31 ) Kelme4ever
91,09 Paddy Friend ( 30 ) JGMTeam
90,24 Rob Mitchell ( 29 ) Villavante
90,24 Derek Jons ( 25 ) RHyNeStOnEs
90,51 Callum Carpenter ( 27 ) Rekutxuteam
90,09 Nate Gailes ( 31 ) Elgrand
89,60 Danny Gill ( 31 ) LanihuliCycling
89,43 Natham Middleton ( 25 ) Teamclaes
88,78 Fergus Emerton ( 34 ) Hero_cycling

General Forum / Season 26

« on: July 31, 2022, 01:42:58 PM »

The s26 world championship road race is in Doha ( Qatar ) and perfect for sprinters.

Previous winners Doha Road WC :
season 16 =

Bud Power ( BlackHole )
season 12 =

Christian Bordeneuve ( Thorboassonarvesen )
season 3 =

Seb Walkins ( SaulSalinasTeam )

Have fun & good luck everyone in season 26 !