No, this is not about individual riders before we descend into chaos before we actually start.
Instead, what I mean is this. You can have up to 30 riders on a WT team. Given the a perfect storm, what would you perfect makeup be?
I'm thinking something like this
2 GT Leads (High Mount/TT to deal with the GTs + the TT heavy 7-8 dayers.)
1 Cobbled Sprint Lead (Cob Classics + Sprinter at other classics/stage depending on REC)
1 Punch/Climb lead (For Ardeness and Stagers without heavy TTs.)
2 Bumpy Cobbles (High cobs, good in hills. Support for cobs/hills)
2 Cob/Sprints (Good cobs, leadout level sprint. For Cobs and then flat sprints)
3 Flat Cobblers (For support at cobbled races and flat races, Mainly classics, one or two with decent REC can help on flatter Stage races.
3 Sprinters (So we can win sprint stages!)
2 Super Helpers (Generally awesome guys that help you get up mountains, through winds and drag alone your TTTs)
6 Stage Climbers (So that you trains go chooo chooo!)
4 Climbers (Cos some races only last a day.)
4 TTers (For your team time trials.)
As a rough guide I think kind of works. Obviously with a good squad you can have certain guys able to do multiple things, but thta seems a good list to get you through a season.
Good plan, but I think that the riders' wage will be over 600.000.
Plus, where is the place for the young riders ? I have 3 spots every season for young riders.
Kind of depends on your focus as well, obviously
You could also get a pure sprinter and a perfect lead-out! Or drop all sprinters/cobblers and make room for more tour leaders, massive WT points that way
Well some of the 3 sprinters will be leadout. A young rider would fall into one of those catergories. A young sprinter is still a sprinter, a young climber still a climber.
And the focus was basically no focus, a full frontal assault on everything you enter. The idea is to find the ideal squad makeup to be able to compete at every event you enter.
There is no "perfect" team.
Just look at the WT teams. Compare some of the top teams, Sky OPQ and BMC. Each has a different set up, with varying types of riders. Yet they are all successful teams.
The best teams just have the best riders, and clear targets and goals.
But the "best" sort of leaders that mean you can then look at targeting everything:
Sagan - obviously, targets anything and everything
Degenkolb - great sprinter, that survives most terrains well
Wiggins/Froome/Contador/Nibali - Standard top level GC rider
So there you've covered Cobbles, Hills, Sprints and GT's. From there you just build with support riders behind those 3 leaders.
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