Schrödinger's Dogs: A&D

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:26 am

Transfer News

Late to the party, but not too late. Our team could sign another 21 year old Austrian rider yesterday. His name: Ernst Fanta. His goal: Make money sprinters great again. His idol: Alexandros Karatzoglou. He will focus on training but will alread have a lot of races early in his carreer, as we lack a sprint strong guy with more than 49 mountain.

Ernst Fanta, 21y
Start: 49-71-67-50-66-66.5 46reg
Goal: 65-70-72+ sprint, or 60-70-78+ sprint

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Wed Aug 14, 2024 10:31 am

Oppenheimer joined 5k Club (30.07.2024)

Our PR department nearly forgot it, but Robert Oppenheimer joined the 5k club after winning Eroica Dolomiti in his 141 race at the age of 30. He was a few days older than classic sprinter Tesla, but needed less races for the 5k. Maybe Robert will also have a very successfull 30+ age carreer as Nikola.

5k Club

Wolodymyr Drinfeld (25y, 65r)

Franz Schwackhöfer (26y, 71r)

Ferenc Krausz (26y, 53r)

Oleksij Iwachnenko (26y, 95r)

Boaz Trakhtenbrot (28y, 75r)

Robert Oppenheimer (30y, 141r)

Nikola Tesla (30y, 153r)

Jacob Wolfowitz (31y, 183r)

Alexandros Karatzoglou (31y, 195r)

Karl Prachar (32y, 136r)

Akos Detreköi (33y, 203r)

Helmut Heuser (33y, 185r)

NgôBao Châu (34y, 94r)

Geoffrey Hinton (34y, 239)

Warren McCulloch (36y, 156r)

Max Simmer (36y, 204r)

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:56 pm

Krausz joins 10 wins club

Ferenc Krausz wins todays 6th stage at the Vuelta a Espana and joins the 10 wins club at the age of 30 after 101 races. It is already his 2nd Vuelta stage and he is wearing the GC leader jersey there as well chasing his 7th stage race win (his 10th >+ cat 3 podium).

10 wins club

Oleksij Iwachnenko, 26 years, 57 races

Franz Schwackhöfer, 27 years, 83 races

Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 28 years, 81 races

Nikola Tesla, 28 years, 123 races

NgôBao Châu, 29 years, 67 races

Ferenc Krausz, 30 years, 101 races

August Oetker, 30 years, 105 races

Geoffrey Hinton, 33 years, 232 races

Alexandros Karatzoglou, 33 years, 247 races

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:34 pm

Krausz joins 15k points club

Ferenc Krausz ist the third rider to reach 15k points for AAD. He is the youngest and fastest rider to get to 15k at the age of 30 after 105 races. He got the necessary points at today's vuelta stage where he finished 7th and defended the red jersey. Next goal for Ferenc is the points record of 16,608 by Trakthenbrot.

15k Club

Ferenc Krausz, 30y, 105r

Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 33y, 152r

Alessandro Volta, 33y, 125r

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Sun Sep 01, 2024 5:46 pm

August 2024

The team could avoid a relegation to Division 2. With 10,916 points we endet up on rank 10. With 13 wins (5x Krausz, 2x Oppenheimer, 2x Drinfeld, 2x Babai, Kalman, Quickley) in 30 races, the month was very successfull. Mainly because of a small and climber weak Vuelta afternoon edition. A total of 8 Vuelta stages out of the first 13 were won. Krausz dominates the GC fight so far and Kalman and Oppenheimer could also win stages already. At San Sebastian, Drinfeld got a second place, fighting for the win there but with unlucky hanging. But Drinfeld could win Circuito de Getxo. Early in the month, we started with a cheap team around Baltuska at Vuelta a Burgos. Baltuska won white there and finished 4th in GC, Babai could win stage 1 and wear the GC leader jersey. With 7,147 points we start at rank 2 in Division 1 in September.

Rider of the month
Ferenc Krausz winning 5 stages at the Vuelta is our rider of the month. Yes the group is not that strong, but still. Krausz on the way to become the most successfull A&D rider concerning eternal points after the Vuelta.

Transfers
Michael Faraday ended his carreer when the team was in Spain. He was our pave captain in 2024 but with just x sprint, he was not really successfull. In 167 races he could achieve 2 pave wins (1 stage at TdP, Trofeo de Presa Allende). At Paris-Roubaix he ended up on place 7.

Michael Faraday, 37, 167, 2 wins, 1,171 points
Bought: 49-70-50-51-47 71,8 41reg
Peak: 53-86 with 83 pave

We also signed a new youth rider. The 21 year old German rider Hans-Görg Roos should improve your team in flat terrain. He will focus to train flat for the first month and maybe will be present in some early escapes after the Vuelta.

Hans-Görg Roos, 21y
Bought: 51-73-65-54-45-67.0 48 reg
Goal: 56-87

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Tue Sep 03, 2024 7:21 pm

Krausz joins 15 Wins Club

Ferenc Krausz celebrates his 7th Vuelta stage win and joins the team's 15 wins club at the age of 31 after 111 races. He will get 2 more stage win chances at the end of the Spanish GT by the end of the week.

15 Wins Club

Oleksij Iwachnenko, 27 years, 89 races

Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 30 years, 107 races

Ferenc Krausz, 31 years, 111 races

Nikola Tesla, 30 years, 162 races

Franz Schwackhöfer, 33 years, 124 races

Geoffrey Hinton, 34 years, 245 races

Alexandros Karatzoglou, 35 years, 292 races

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Sat Sep 07, 2024 11:14 am

Alive And Dead celebrate 300th race win (2024-09-05)

The winning streak at the Vuelta 2024 seems endless. We nearly forgot to celebrate the 300th win in the team history. 1370 races were needed for 300 wins, which means a winning percentage of 21.9%. In the eternal ranking A&D now ranks at place 44. Togother with the 206 wins of the former teams (flockmastoR/Equipe Mathematique/Dead And Alive) we have a total winning percentage of 16.2% (507 wins in 3122 races) and would be ranked on place 16.

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 5:22 pm

Oppenheimer joined the 10 Wins Club(28.09.2024)

Oppenheimer showed good form one day before the WC road race. He won Grand Prix Cerami and entered the 10 wins club of A&D.

10 wins club

Oleksij Iwachnenko, 26 years, 57 races

Franz Schwackhöfer, 27 years, 83 races

Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 28 years, 81 races

Nikola Tesla, 28 years, 123 races

NgôBao Châu, 29 years, 67 races

Ferenc Krausz, 30 years, 101 races

August Oetker, 30 years, 105 races

Robert Oppenheimer, 32 years, 177 races

Geoffrey Hinton, 33 years, 232 races

Alexandros Karatzoglou, 33 years, 247 races

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 5:38 pm

September 2024

17,400 points resulted in the next Division 1 victory for A&D. In September, the team participated in 28 races, winning 9 races (6x Krausz, Rella, Obst, Oppenheimer). The month was dominated points wise by the end of the vuelta a espana, where Krausz won 5 stages, the GC and the points classification. Rella could win the GP de Quebec, where our team went for the 3 way strategy (Escape, early Rella, final Oppenheimer). While this sucky strategy was successfully, our tempo in peloton for Drinfeld strategy at Montreal was not. He could only finish 5th after a hard race. In the end tour of Luxembourg saved us the division win without a stage win but a white jersey for Baltuska, 3rd place in GC for Baltuska and the team classement. We also started on top of division 1 in the beginning of October.

Rider of the month
Rella with his first big win is our rider of the month. Usually the stats would speak for Krausz, but the Vuelta group this year just was not competitive and Rella die score good points at both Canadian Classics winning a cat 5 race. Krausz equalized the wins at one GT record from Velasco was not good enough this time.

Transfers
Early in the month, Yann LeCun retired. He was a very good helper for Krausz during his Giro and Vuelta win. He could rarely ride for his own success. In 156 races he earned 1,161 eternal points and no palmares entry. He came closest to it during an escape at December Tour 2023 (second place).

Yann LeCun, 35y, 156r, 1,161 points
Bought: 48-67-76-47-53 50reg
Peak: 68-72-76

Another rider, James Watt, retired late in the month. He had the Watts, he was a good flat rider with good sprint skills. He was used as blocker and first one in our spritn trains, as a late escaper in flat races and as a leader in medium hard pave races. He was more important as a helper and just could win 1 race himself, the offseason classic Dolisie - Point Nore. At Tour of Namibia, he could get on the GC podium with a third place. In 251 races he collected 2,248 points.

James Watt, 39y, 251r, 1 win, 2,248 points
Bought: 47-74-76-55-64 67,1 41reg
Peak: 49-89 with 66 sprint and 77,6 pave

With Younès Banane and Bartholomäus Most, the team will be strenghtened in hilly pave and hilly races. Banane is our hope for the hilly pave classics in 2025, Most will be our hilly money sprinter for 2025 and should diversify our hilly sprint squad around Fanta.

Younès Banane, 21y
Bought: 56-72-52-48-43 75 50 reg
Goal: 65-85 with high pave

Bartholomäus Most, 21y
Bought: 55-75-56-46-66-69,5 41 reg
Goal: 70-80 with 70 sprint

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 5:45 pm

Krausz opens 20k Club (05.10.2024)

Ferenc Krausz is our first rider to collect 20k eternal points. He did achieve this milestone at Giro dell Emillia, with a second place. He did reach 20k at the age of 32 in his 118th race.

20k Club

Ferenc Krausz, 32 years, 118 races

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Sun Oct 20, 2024 6:04 pm

Krausz joins 20 Wins Club (19.10.2024)

Ferenc Krausz is the 4th rider and the second climber to win 20 races. He achieved this milestone in the hardes stage at Guangxi, which also secured him the yellow jersey in the last World Tour stage race.

20 wins club

Oleksij Iwachnenko, 29y, 118r

Ferenc Krausz, 32y, 125r

Nikola Tesla, 32y, 198r

Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 32y, 151r

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:29 am

October 2024

Another month, another division 1 win. The team crowns on top with 16.201 points making it the 10th division 1 win and the 5th this season/year. In 29 races AAD could win 3 races (Drinfeld, Fanta, Krausz), the GC at Guangxi (Krausz), the team classification at Guangxi and podium places at Giro dell Emilia (Krausz 2nd) and Gran Piemonte (Fanta 3rd). Lombardia of course the biggest goal where we failed. The group with bergwerk (Onley/Cleverly), Narrenparty (Asfaw) and our team around Drinfeld was not really what we hoped for. We ended up doing most of the work against early Big Donkey siebs and did some stupid mistakes in the end to end up on place 4. Very disappointing.

In November, we start the Division 1 on rank 2 with 6,363 points.

Rider of the month is Ferenc Krausz for winning his 8th stage race GC (7 World Tour GC wins). What a great carreer that will end after the Campeonato de los Andes 2024, where he is chasing the team internal GC wins record of Trakhtenbrot.

Transfers
Ingo Dachwitz ends his carreer. In 166 races he could collect 5 wins, winning a stage at Romandie and UAE Tour and many top 10 places. He was mainly used as a sprint launcher for Babai and as money sprinter in tours.

Ingo Dachwitz, 37, 166 races, 5 wins, 3,046 points
Bought: 46-67-67-59-66-64 35 reg
Peak: 49-79-67-59-82-73,1

Andrius Baltuska was fired, his training results were not satisfying, so he had to leave the team at the young age of 24 with just 81 mountain after 15 training sessions we lost our confidence that he can be our leader in 2025. He need to leave to be replaced with Baptiste Firiam, the 25 year old climber was already at 87 (starting with just 70) and did also train to 88 in his first training session at AAD. He was in some other low Division teams previously and collected 1,830 points and 1 win in 47 races. He should start in the Andes to learn from Krausz and take over the team lead after November.

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:44 am

++++ LIVE TICKER ++++ National Championships ++++
9:10: Der früher Vogel fängt den Wurm. Obst attackiert bei den NM in der Ukraine. Es ist aussichtslos.
11 Fahrer des Teams Schappy haben sich im Feld zusammengesprochen. Jedoch verfolgt niemand
Obst und der fährt sich fast 19 Minuten heraus!

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:46 am

++++ LIVE TICKER ++++ National Championships ++++
9:08: Banane findet sich in einem kleinen Feld in Marokko wieder. Es gibt zu Beginn
einige Attacken von Alaa Bellaarouch (RV Allagen) aber das Feld findet immer wieder zusammen.
Elaska ist mit 4 Fahrern vertreten, das riecht nach Favoritenrolle.

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:50 am

++++ LIVE TICKER ++++ National Championships ++++
9:47: Marokko scheint entschieden. An km 15 die entscheidende Doppelattacke.
Der Titelträger Brahim Chibani setzt sich vom Feld ab, dahinter eine Zweiergruppe
mit Alaa Bellaarouch and dem Chibanis Teamkollege Hajar ElOuardi hängt.
Später hat sich Hajar ElOuardi abgesetzt und zieht nun Chibani zu seinem 2. Titel in Folge

flockmastoR · Post by **flockmastoR** » Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:57 am