So I looked at Object's team: Who's on this super-team who isn't on mine?
Hm, he has Vansevenant - have him too. Pidcock, Kruijswijk, Latour? Check. Vingegaard, Politt? Check. In the upper regions: Bernal, of course, and Thomas, yes.
He even has Mollema and Teunissen like me.
Okay, he has Evenepoel. Hm, but that's basically the same so far as my Schachmann pick, same price region, about the same return, Schachmann even in black numbers. So does he just have more stable riders? Could be. But he also has a few riders who haven't brought in their cost yet (Gaviria and Sivakov among them like on my team).
Okay, he has Moscon, Laporte and Vanmarcke - and I don't, in that region I have Powless, Lucas Hamilton and Arensman, who aren't bad picks either, but clearly not as effective. He also has Wellens - price and return not unsimilar to Kuss. But then he also has Haig instead of Jakobsen, again a bit better.
But the real difference between a far far away leader's team and a now 26th placed team?
Sagan - instead of Hirschi.
And Cavendish.
Guys, the real difference, the must have-rider of this season, is Mark Cavendish. 15 points. Return 838 points. I didn't believe in him anymore. I'm truely sorry.