1. Rider Draft
This is surely the most important step. It`s no surprise that all teams would like the best riders but to keep it as fair as possible, the very best riders won`t be in the draft. This is supposed to make all teams more balanced and avoid too strong teams just because you got lucky to get a top5 draft position.

The draft itself works in a serpentine way from A-Z, Z-A, A-Z and so on after we randomly decide the draft order. To speed things up, we won`t be able to make a live draft with all managers. This is just not possible. So instead we will use big boards. All managers are supposed to send in a list of their preferred riders for enough riders of a full draft rounds. When having the exact number of managers, it`s easy to calculate, how many riders must be on each list then. We admins then go through everyones list and always pick the highest available rider. Having missed out on a deadline for a big board? First would be to take the highest remaining of a former big board if still some names are on there. If no more names left, you get skipped and will have a chance to pick a replacement after this round.

Obviously this is the part, where tactical decisions need to be done as clearly you can gamble on some riders to improve in 2018 or others, that regress a lot.

Everyone`s big board for couple rounds must be sent to me within a specific deadline of a couple of days. After those rounds are done, the next big board is needed until we reach the end of the draft, which takes at least 20 rounds as this is the minimum team size wanted.

So if you like to take part, please keep in mind, that a bit of time is needed for the draft.

2. The Season
After the draft, you can sit back and enjoy the racing. There won`t be decisions for you to make as we want to keep it as simple as possible.
We will keep you updated with regular team rankings while we hope to see some nice discussions in the race threads.

3. Season End
After the season we present the final standings and hopefully see some great fights throughout the whole rankings.

SAGAN Peter
FROOME Chris
VAN AVERMAET Greg
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro
KRISTOFF Alexander
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander
DUMOULIN Tom
CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto
NIBALI Vincenzo
MATTHEWS Michael
ULISSI Diego
BARDET Romain
PINOT Thibaut
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
GREIPEL André
BOUHANNI Nacer
PORTE Richie
ARU Fabio
GILBERT Philippe
DEMARE Arnaud
KWIATKOWSKI Michal
MARTIN Daniel
COLBRELLI Sonny
URAN URAN Rigoberto
MOLLEMA Bauke
ZAKARIN Ilnur
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
COSTA Rui Alberto Faria
GROENEWEGEN Dylan
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion

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