With the season finished it’s time to look back at the wins and also take a deeper look at the stats. Which teams had the most podium places but the fewest wins? Which teams are the most reliant on one rider?
Statistics
Team Victory Rankings
A look at who is up and down as well as the chance to review issues like transfers, sponsorship and contracts too.
Team Victory Rankings
With the first grand tour completed, a look at the team rankings and as ever a chance to look at some side stories around the teams, rider recruitment and some other stats on which teams get lucky.
Team Victory Rankings
We’re already one third of the way through the season if measured by race days. As ever here’s a chance to review the wins and take a look at the teams and some of the stories around them from the Catalonia team time trial fiasco to Peter Sagan’s tactical woes and why Astana’s image as peloton villains doesn’t work if they can’t win a single race.
The Sanremo Paradox
Michał Kwiatkowski attacks on the Poggio as the Tinkoff team behind chases to aide their leader Peter Sagan, the pre-race pick. Kwiatkowski’s got a gap and he’s a mean descender so he’s in with a chance. If you’ve been watching on TV this is a moment of almost unbearable tension.
Milan-Sanremo is the longest race on the pro calendar yet it’s so often dependent on events in the last five minutes.
Does Early Season Success Bring More Success?
Do early wins matter? A lot aren’t on TV and plenty happen far from a sponsor’s target audience so the publicity value is often minimal. However it’s often said that a good start to the season sets up a team for the rest of the year, building confidence that in turn brings more wins. Similarly a poor start can burden a team for the year. Is this true? It’s possible to use data and statistical analysis to test this so let’s have a look.
Team Victory Rankings
The season’s barely begun, right? Technically we’re already one sixth of the way through the 2017 season and with a pause this week given the vanishing of the Tour of Qatar and the Tour Méditerranéen it’s a good moment to take a look at the standings so far.
Team Victory Rankings
A look at the win rates for the top teams and as ever a chance to look at some of the stories behind the wins and the stats relating to the teams especially as we’re in the middle of the transfer season.
Team Victory Rankings
Time for another look at the victory rankings with the Giro completed. The Italian race got a lot of limelight and there were many more chances during the month to take more wins. Here’s a look at the stats and some of the back stories too.
Team Victory Rankings
Etixx-Quickstep still top the table but a charge by Movistar sees the Spanish team go from five to 18 wins since the last look at the rankings at the end of March. April has more race days than any other month with plenty of chances for teams big and small to start collecting the trophies and bouquets.
As well as the stats it’s a chance to review some wins, lob in some transfer gossip and explore the problems at Cofidis.