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Re: Re: I believe it is possible to do marginally better (computed via numerical optimization): Name CQ2015 CQ2014 RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquim 1750 1150 ARU Fabio 1756 1092 DENNIS Rohan 1005 528 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 1068 429 BAKELANTS Jan 973 417 PORTE Richie 1359 415 HERMANS Ben 778 363...

Re: Re: He beat Froome in Delhi 2010 as well, by which time the marginal gains ought to have set in.

You look all possible teams that didn't include the particular rider and find the optimum team amongst those. For instance the best possible team that didn't include Gerrans scored 25352 points, whereas the absolute best team (including Gerrnas) scored 26042, so his penalty is 690. In...

Yes I agree. You can get a much sensibler team worth 2258 picks and using 7461 CQ points if we constrain Froome to be in the team: Rider Cost TimesPicked HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis 92 132 EWAN Caleb 95 130 PORTE Richie 415 124 CAVENDISH Mark 642 118 MOSER Moreno 87 116 GESINK Robert 274...

A good way of seeing how vital each rider was is to look at the best solution you could get that didn't include each particular rider and see how much worse that team is compared to the full optimum. Finetto is indeed somewhat expendable since without him you can still get a team with 26018...

For reference this is the team that optimizes rider popularity for 2015. It is pretty much the top riders until you get down to people like Froome and Sagan who are too expensive to fit. It is at a slight disadvantage in only using 7348 points. Name Cost Popularity HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis...

That's what I wasn't sure about. As far as I can work out this is the optimal team, which gets a monstrous score of 26042: Name Cost CQ2014 CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto 1228 2543 KWIATKOWSKI Michal 995 1948 GERRANS Simon 511 1736 DUMOULIN Tom 601 1408 PERAUD Jean-Christophe 586 1312 ARU...

If you mean in terms of having the riders picked the most times I think it would be the following that scored 12954 points (and come 17th) Name TimesPicked Cost CQ2014 ANACONA GOMEZ Winner Andrew 51 20 308 ARU Fabio 86 262 1092 BARGUIL Warren 37 340 546 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 62 743 429...

About 4.30pm UK time assuming they ride at the same speed as in the 2013 British nationals.

At least I "won" something then.

Apparently he was working for Cataldo and Siutsou. http://cyclingquotes.com/news/wiggins_shows_flashes_of_climbing_form_in_trentino/

Before the Tour in 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/jun/29/britain-olympic-cycling-tour-brailsford

Whoops. Would this team have been kosher?: FROOME Chris 1427 2766 QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 707 1634 PORTE Richie 680 1486 ULISSI Diego 567 1132 KWIATKOWSKI Michal 482 995 SPILAK Simon 390 900 SANTAMBROGIO Mauro 344 810 CIOLEK Gerald 242 798 MAJKA Rafal 260 773 WEENING Pieter...

It is possible to do a bit better: FROOME Chris 1427 2766 QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 707 1634 PORTE Richie 680 1486 ULISSI Diego 567 1132 KWIATKOWSKI Michal 482 995 SPILAK Simon 390 900 SANTAMBROGIO Mauro 344 810 CIOLEK Gerald 242 798 MAJKA Rafal 260 773 WEENING Pieter 160 771...

I think you might have used the Rolling Year rather than Year-to-date points. I make it: 1 SteelyDan 11921 2 will10 11864 3 Geraint Too Fast 11651 4 adamski101 11462 5 chinaboy 11330 6 vladimir 11159 7 freddybobs 11041 8 Ferminal 11006 9 Nyssinator 10723 10 tomazo 10717 11...