UCI Points system

[Potomac]

the gaps this week are still narrowing a lot because of UNO-X great comeback.
COFIDIS and PICNIC got even closer.
relegation battle between the two, might be decided by the fines each team will get...

Thanks for efforts of these graphs. I think they are improved without the two "gap" series you had earlier.
Can you make the lines slightly thicker? That makes it easier to map the data series to the legend.

 

[AupaPyama]

Syritsa's points do not count.

Thats my whole point. Syritsa is scoring points while Su is nowhere to be seen. Not even as a valuable donkey.

 

[Roku]

Thats my whole point. Syritsa is scoring points while Su is nowhere to be seen. Not even as a valuable donkey.

Su is the most valuable Astana rider. Without him there would not be Chinese money and the team would be set to relegate at the end of the season.

 

[Samamba]

UAE Tour worth 500 points next year
Guangxi, Copenhagen, Cadel Evans, etc. 400

 

[AupaPyama]

Su is the most valuable Astana rider. Without him there would not be Chinese money and the team would be set to relegate at the end of the season.

Ah and XDS had to think 6 months about this obligation and came up with it after the team was full?

 

[aruipksni]

i'm curious:
which team would you like to see relegated and which team promoted?

 

[Potomac]

i'm curious:
which team would you like to see relegated and which team promoted?

I'm indifferent. I just enjoy the battle.
I was most interested in following Astana after they got new sponsors last year. They were so far back, but not impossibly distant, that I thought with would be fun to track their progress. Would they make a big enough investment to get the job done?

 

[danielzu]

Points this week so far:

PicNic: 130
Astana: 10

 

[pastronef]

i'm curious:
which team would you like to see relegated and which team promoted?

relegated: Cofidis (so that they'll skip the Giro) and Arkea (they'll fold)

Uno-X is fine as a pro-conti

let's imagine the TDF 2026, 23 teams

18 WT
Uno-X, Tudor, Cofidis guaranteed
Total (or what it'll be called) and the last spot between Tietema and Q36.5


also it would be nice if both Uno-X and Cofidis skipped the Giro

 

[AupaPyama]

Its better if UNO X skips the Vuelta (if they even skip a race at all because their talented riders will become better with a GT under their belt) because Cofidis wouldnt.

 

[aruipksni]

sadly UNO-X cannot take a part in La Vuelta (which is going to be a huge points grab for small teams) , because the way they are going they could have pass a lot of teams including PICNIC and even WANTY and even JAYCO. i bet they will try hard in the coming tour, but there are not a lot of points to give away when POGI is around.
however i can still see a large probability for UNO-X to actually qualify this years.

 

[danielzu]

Points this week so far:

PicNic: 130
Astana: 10

After yesterday:

PicNic: 140
Astana: 50
Intermarche: 3
Cofidis: 2

 

[danielzu]

After yesterday:

PicNic: 140
Astana: 50
Intermarche: 3
Cofidis: 2

After today:

PicNic: 180
Astana: 55
Cofidis: 52
Intermarche: 3

 

[Samamba]

I mean Cofidis is just done for, let's be honest. Who do they have to get a big amount of points this season? And their French farming season if over apart from like 3 races in August.

Unless they start going to China it's over for them. But like I've said before. Probably the team who would be hurt by relegation the least. No stress for them, sure maybe the sponsor doesn't necessarily like it but they are safe for the Tour even if they miss out on the top 3 one of the upcoming years (and I don't think that's immediately gonna happen).

 

[danielzu]

They really need to get stage wins at the tour from all Aranburu, Buchmann, Ion. Maybe Aranburu can score a few good results and Buchmann can top 3 at the KOM classification. So vino already said astana will go for it as they have noone for beeing better than top 10 in gc, but with tejada possibly out, i dont know whether higuita or champoussin will be able to get the needed points

 

[QueenStagiaire]

They really need to get stage wins at the tour from all Aranburu, Buchmann, Ion. Maybe Aranburu can score a few good results and Buchmann can top 3 at the KOM classification. So vino already said astana will go for it as they have noone for beeing better than top 10 in gc, but with tejada possibly out, i dont know whether higuita or champoussin will be able to get the needed points

Buchmann isn‘t really a good KOM candidate because he can‘t sprint for the points. He‘ll probably ride for 12th on GC or something, which wouldn‘t be that bad since stage hunters will probably not have a good time with Vingegaard and Pogačar in the race.