Let's take a look at some of the biggest losers this year. For the first table I filtered by riders who were under contract in the CT or WT in 2018 and who have scored at least 100 prestige points in their careers.
Rank
Name
Total 2018
Total 2017
Rank 2017
Change
794
Sébastien Reichenbach
101
101
693
-101
700
Lars Van der Haar
155
155
601
-99
594
Patrick Bevin
245
244
497
-97
750
Christian Knees
126
123
653
-97
774
Ariel Maximiliano Richeze
110
110
677
-97
743
César Paredes
132
127
647
-96
720
Jordan Brochu
142
142
625
-95
584
Daniel Navarro
250
250
490
-94
735
Danilo Wyss
135
132
643
-92
728
Juan Pizarro
140
136
637
-91
Reichenbach scored 85 points of his 101 points in 2015 in the CT, since then he's been in the WT and failed to score in two out of three seasons. Knees has scored in every season so far, but altogether just 8 points in the last three years. Pizarro on the other hand only left the U23 last year and immediately joined the WT, so it's understandable he only scored 4 points.
Here's the same table with riders who scored at least 500 prestige points in their career:
Rank
Name
Total 2018
Total 2017
Rank 2017
Change
395
Josip Rumac
506
493
330
-65
346
Matthieu Ladagnous
602
590
283
-63
382
Brent Bookwalter
532
520
322
-60
387
Eduardo Gonzalez
521
508
327
-60
316
Tom Veelers
672
664
257
-59
257
Julien Vermote
892
877
200
-57
288
Pierrick Fédrigo
751
751
232
-56
389
Daniele Bennati
517
489
333
-56
375
Gianfranco Zilioli
545
521
321
-54
293
Nathan Haas
736
723
241
-52
364
Bert De Backer
557
539
312
-52
They scored between no points (Fedrigo) and 28 points (Bennati).
And now the biggest losers in the overall top 100.
Rank
Name
Total 2018
Total 2017
Rank 2017
Change
56
Fabian Cancellara
4400
4031
39
-17
72
Tobias Ludvigsson
3428
3147
58
-14
68
Leopold König
3668
3277
56
-12
83
Luis León Sánchez
2694
2654
71
-12
35
Peter Velits
5338
4911
24
-11
45
Simon Spilak
4874
4423
34
-11
75
Nicolas Roche
3340
3017
64
-11
51
Andrew Talansky
4554
4006
41
-10
64
Thomas De Gendt
3994
3495
54
-10
42
José Joaquín Rojas
4944
4502
33
-9
34
Sergio Henao
5887
4807
26
-8
36
Jurgen Van den Broeck
5217
4782
28
-8
67
Jérôme Coppel
3757
3141
59
-8
69
Dario Cataldo
3533
3128
61
-8
14 riders because I wanted to include Sergio Henao and Van den Broeck, who dropped out of the top 30. Henao's case is surprising, he scored 1080 points this season, 46th in the individual prestige rankings, but he still dropped from 26th to 34th overall. While LL Sanchez scored just 40 prestige points and only dropped by 12 positions in the overall rankings.
Here's the complete top 500 in one table, missing are the 79 riders who have retired or were without a team this season:
Love those stats. Very nice to see Liberty Seguros coming good out of those rankings. It shows that the current phase of transition is well going and that we are ready to hold our top scorers and further invest in talent and established riders. Fernandez with a big jump to previous seasons. Looks like the departure of Intxausti and Verona has freed him up from AI shackles so he finally races to win, evident by his first win bikex mt fuji race.
Edited by Shonak on 14-05-2018 11:27
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
I have come up with yet another only marginally useful statistic. The main skills of riders are obviously crucial and the AVG reflects that. But what if you just wanted the most stat points as cheap as possible, that is, find riders who offer a lot of total stat points compared to their AVG rating. Here are my top recommendations:
Name
AVG
FL
M
HI
TT
PR
CO
SP
AC
DH
FI
ST
RS
RC
TP
Rat
McCluskey
68.9
69
64
67
66
69
68
67
68
74
68
71
69
69
889
7.75
Ost
66.0
67
63
63
64
65
64
63
64
71
67
66
64
66
847
7.79
Farkas
71.7
73
66
69
71
72
70
73
71
73
70
72
69
71
920
7.79
Jacobsen
70.9
70
67
70
68
70
69
69
70
75
70
71
69
69
907
7.82
De Grootte
68.0
66
62
60
69
68
68
58
66
80
69
71
66
66
869
7.83
Cozza
65.4
67
63
64
66
65
60
64
66
62
63
66
63
66
835
7.83
Cruz
62.6
61
57
58
58
63
60
64
64
65
64
63
62
58
797
7.85
Vermote
71.8
72
63
71
73
72
68
70
73
73
70
70
67
72
914
7.86
Geissler
73.4
75
67
70
69
71
72
74
74
75
71
74
69
73
934
7.86
Garcia
69.9
71
65
68
66
67
68
67
69
71
70
72
66
69
889
7.86
de Laet
67.8
68
64
66
63
65
67
65
66
69
70
69
65
65
862
7.87
Pichlmann
64.9
68
61
59
61
59
60
60
66
67
62
69
69
64
825
7.87
Renlund
64.0
67
63
63
60
64
61
55
64
65
63
61
66
61
813
7.87
Boasson Hagen
77.4
76
71
76
75
78
73
75
79
77
77
76
73
77
983
7.87
By coincidence, an Aviva rider comes out top. He comes with 889 total skill points and is only rated AVG 68.9. His nearest competitor with an 889 total is Jaime Garcia with an AVG of 69.9, while Thomas Nybo Riis gets an AVG 73.4 with his 889 total.
Considering you have to pay a minimum wage, some of these riders aren't actually good value-for-money, 100 wage for 797 stat points (Cruz) isn't a bargain - after all, McCluskey is also on the minimum wage and has a much higher total.
At the top of the scale, Boasson Hagen stands out. A total of 983, only one rider has more: Peter Sagan, who has 998, an impressive gap to the rest of the field. But Boasson Hagen "only" has AVG 77.4, all riders bar Sagan rated higher have fewer skill points in total, some considerably less. Here are the worst riders by this calculation:
Name
AVG
FL
M
HI
TT
PR
CO
SP
AC
DH
FI
ST
RS
RC
TP
Rat
Richeze
70.1
65
55
62
57
60
54
72
73
66
52
62
58
61
797
8.80
D. Martin
79.4
69
77
80
63
65
57
66
77
66
74
77
73
73
917
8.66
Nieve
74.3
63
76
73
61
59
52
62
68
60
75
71
70
73
863
8.61
Omelchuk
67.6
57
58
67
55
57
58
58
64
65
62
68
57
62
788
8.58
Keough
73.3
72
59
66
60
60
62
75
74
67
61
68
66
66
856
8.56
Malori
78.6
76
66
74
80
80
66
63
61
69
66
72
74
71
918
8.56
Navarro
71.1
62
73
70
62
61
52
58
59
63
67
67
67
70
831
8.56
King
68.6
63
69
67
66
64
54
55
58
54
64
60
63
65
802
8.55
Hidalgo
66.8
59
58
67
57
57
58
59
62
61
61
66
56
60
781
8.55
Cavendish
79.8
79
60
67
64
73
66
81
81
76
60
77
72
77
933
8.55
Ischenko
71.9
60
66
72
60
58
60
64
68
60
69
71
66
68
842
8.54
Bos
73.6
72
56
61
59
67
65
75
75
72
57
69
67
67
862
8.54
Modolo
75.6
74
60
68
58
63
61
77
77
74
70
70
66
68
886
8.53
Kruopis
75.3
74
59
68
62
64
66
77
76
66
67
69
66
69
883
8.53
Pirazzi
76.1
66
76
76
62
65
58
62
67
69
84
72
67
70
894
8.51
Bardet
80.9
74
82
79
70
68
60
65
76
75
79
76
72
75
951
8.51
Porte
79.1
72
79
76
77
77
62
62
69
65
69
74
72
77
931
8.50
Richeze is rated AVG 70.1 though he has the same total as Cruz with his AVG 62.6 (797)! Dan Martin is a negative surprise, but his total is pretty low. Teunissen also has 917, but he's only AVG 73.4, Lander and Poljanski also share that total with their AVG 74.4. I also included Bardet, a total of 951 certainly isn't bad, only 34 riders have more. But some have a much lower AVG, for example, Mohoric, De Gendt and Stybar (all 963 for AVG 77.3-77.7), Boom (958/77.0) and Roelandts (957/76.7).
McCluskey and Jacobsen <3
De Grootte and Pichlmann <3
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
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11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Fernandez with a big jump to previous seasons. Looks like the departure of Intxausti and Verona has freed him up from AI shackles so he finally races to win, evident by his first win bikex mt fuji race.
