Other special teams
You'll notice two other special teams after Collective Wisdom. There are two 'cheat lists' that one might use to build a team here: the points gained in these same races last year, and the popularity of the riders among participants in Skidmark's season long game.
For the Good Last Year team, there were two within budget combinations that (while omitting those who are unlikely to race much, if at all, in this series) gave the maximum score of points in these events in 2024:
STEIMLE Jannik
EDVARDSEN-FREDHEIM Stian
MALECKI Kamil
POLITT Nils
VAN GESTEL Dries
NORSGAARD Mathias
JARNET Maxime
VAN GILS Maxim
were common to both, but the numbers could be made up by either
GOOSSENS Kobe
TEUNS Dylan
and one of
KRIEGER Alexander
LÜHRS Luis-Joe
VANDEVELDE Yentl
(an 11 man team costing 2999: any one pointer didn't score in these events last year, so doesn't belong in this team)
or the final 4 places could be filled by
DESAL Cériel
CONSONNI Simone
and two out of the Krieger/Luhrs/Vandevelde tie.
So I have set it up so that the better of those will display.
These riders were not widely picked (only Teuns more than 3 times), but some of our teams seem to have paid some attention to points gathered in these races last time around:
Many of those who were popular picks in the Main game will not expect to get many of their season points in this set of races, so the top twelve as a team may not score well, but they will be listed anyway:
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian
VAN BAARLE Dylan
VERMEERSCH Florian
PHILIPSEN Albert Withen
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao
KRON Andreas Lorentz
TORRES ARIAS Pablo
SEIXAS Paul
KÄMNA Lennard
GLOAG Thomas
VAN AERT Wout
HAYTER Ethan
But it's probably fair to say that if a rider is good value for the main game, and has these races as a target, he could be good value here. Whether by accident or design, some of our teams have a high count of main game picks:
You'll notice two other special teams after Collective Wisdom. There are two 'cheat lists' that one might use to build a team here: the points gained in these same races last year, and the popularity of the riders among participants in Skidmark's season long game.
For the Good Last Year team, there were two within budget combinations that (while omitting those who are unlikely to race much, if at all, in this series) gave the maximum score of points in these events in 2024:
STEIMLE Jannik
EDVARDSEN-FREDHEIM Stian
MALECKI Kamil
POLITT Nils
VAN GESTEL Dries
NORSGAARD Mathias
JARNET Maxime
VAN GILS Maxim
were common to both, but the numbers could be made up by either
GOOSSENS Kobe
TEUNS Dylan
and one of
KRIEGER Alexander
LÜHRS Luis-Joe
VANDEVELDE Yentl
(an 11 man team costing 2999: any one pointer didn't score in these events last year, so doesn't belong in this team)
or the final 4 places could be filled by
DESAL Cériel
CONSONNI Simone
and two out of the Krieger/Luhrs/Vandevelde tie.
So I have set it up so that the better of those will display.
These riders were not widely picked (only Teuns more than 3 times), but some of our teams seem to have paid some attention to points gathered in these races last time around:
1 | DJW | 1184 |
2 | Blues_in_the_Bottle | 1156 |
3 | Ruvu | 1104 |
4 | DevilsElbow | 1079 |
5 | NBFC1962 | 1066 |
6 | EvansIsTheBest | 1059 |
7 | SlowClimber | 957 |
8 | LosBrolin | 926 |
9 | Rufs | 913 |
10 | Madrazo | 855 |
11 | DJSprtsch | 829 |
12 | Hfgon1 | 806 |
13 | Vladimir | 781 |
14 | Search | 775 |
15 | Ingsve | 766 |
16 | Shakes | 750 |
17 | Peixotini | 732 |
18 | Abbulf | 702 |
19 | QueenStagiare | 698 |
20 | Triley36 | 691 |
21 | Kazistuta | 667 |
22 | AmisVelo | 657 |
23 | Del1962 | 648 |
24 | Ray10 | 644 |
25 | Leadbelly | 609 |
26 | Laarsland | 593 |
27 | Josedin | 544 |
28 | RedheadDane | 503 |
29 | Bminchow | 485 |
30 | JonEzeitza | 451 |
31 | Armchair | 419 |
32 | Onizuka | 394 |
33 | SamuCuenca | 252 |
CollectiveWisdom | 672 | |
SoLastYear | 2250 | |
MainGamePop | 385 |
Many of those who were popular picks in the Main game will not expect to get many of their season points in this set of races, so the top twelve as a team may not score well, but they will be listed anyway:
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian
VAN BAARLE Dylan
VERMEERSCH Florian
PHILIPSEN Albert Withen
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao
KRON Andreas Lorentz
TORRES ARIAS Pablo
SEIXAS Paul
KÄMNA Lennard
GLOAG Thomas
VAN AERT Wout
HAYTER Ethan
But it's probably fair to say that if a rider is good value for the main game, and has these races as a target, he could be good value here. Whether by accident or design, some of our teams have a high count of main game picks:
1 | EvansIsTheBest | 514 |
2 | Abbulf | 501 |
3 | DevilsElbow | 455 |
4 | Laarsland | 454 |
5 | Madrazo | 450 |
6 | Kazistuta | 435 |
6 | Ray10 | 435 |
8 | Triley36 | 429 |
9 | Bminchow | 409 |
10 | Ruvu | 402 |
11 | Ingsve | 397 |
12 | Del1962 | 391 |
13 | DJSprtsch | 377 |
14 | Rufs | 375 |
15 | DJW | 373 |
16 | AmisVelo | 364 |
17 | JonEzeitza | 333 |
18 | Armchair | 329 |
19 | Peixotini | 325 |
20 | Hfgon1 | 317 |
21 | QueenStagiare | 310 |
22 | Leadbelly | 309 |
23 | Search | 306 |
24 | Onizuka | 290 |
25 | SlowClimber | 289 |
26 | Shakes | 269 |
27 | Josedin | 232 |
28 | SamuCuenca | 214 |
29 | LosBrolin | 204 |
30 | Vladimir | 200 |
31 | Blues_in_the_Bottle | 102 |
32 | RedheadDane | 99 |
33 | NBFC1962 | 81 |
CollectiveWisdom | 526 | |
SoLastYear | 13 | |
MainGamePop | 821 |
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