Schrödinger's Dogs: A&D

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2023 - Statistics Part 1
Welcome to the 2023 statistics series. We will first take a look at the highlights and rider of the year 2023 of our team, Alive & Dead. Again the year was dominated by our TT strong climber Alessandro Volta, but allrounders like Telsa and hill sprinter Iwachnenko played a big role as well. The highlight again was the GIRO and VUELTA win by Volta, two totally different but equally successfull GTs. In the GIRO Volta was the clear favorite and the team managed the start-finish victory in a defensive way. The opponents were strong and with the relatively low reg of Volta the hardest part was not to overpace at some stages. The Vuelta was totally different with Baer and other strong riders to compete against. The race was more open until Volta could exploit the form setting error of bergwerk and the second half ot the Vuelta was more like a defensive race again. 11 stages at the 2 GTs could be won (5x Volta, 4x Iwachnenko, 1x Tesla + TTT) and Iwachnenko could win the sprint jersey at the GIRO. Nikola Tesla was the side captain at MSR winning the morning edition in a strong field. It was the only win of a cat 6 monument. In many other classics Tesla was leader with some more podium placements (Amstel, Deinze - Wevelgem). Another highlight was the stage race home win of Karl Prachar at the Österreich Radrundfahrt.

Rider of the Year - 2023:
Alessandro Volta

Riders of the Month - 2023
January: Nikola Tesla
February: Oleksij Iwachnenko
March: Nikola Tesla (winner MSR)
April: Oleksij Iwachnenko
May: Alessandro Volta (winner GIRO)
June: Nikola Tesla
July: Karl Prachar
August: Oleksij Iwachnenko
September: Alessandro Volta (winner VUELTA)
October: Oleksij Iwachnenko
November: Robert Oppenheimer
December: James Watt

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2023 - Statistics Part 2

The second part of our 2023 statistics wants to honor the World Tour winners (Division 1). Therefore we present the bump chart (as introduced in 2022) of the 5 Division 1 winners. It shows the placement of those teams throughout the year 2023. Five teams (Alive And Dead, Alkworld, Hansa, free team, stevens) were able to win a Division 1 title, four teams (Alive And Dead, Alkworld, Hansa, free team) that won a Division 1 title in 2022 could repeat that in 2023. Here comes my ranking of those teams in 2023:

#1 - stevens - The newcomer
World Tour Titles: 3
Races: 348
Wins: 113
Win Percentage: 32,5%
Monuments: 1 (Lombardia)
Grand Tour Wins: 3
Stage Race Wins: 12
Avg. Rank: 3.4
Avg. Points: 12,768
Highlights: Alejandro Velasco winning all GTs and 22 GT stages, eternal points #1 (36,304), rider with most wins (65) in 2023

What a year for stevens! Just stevens could enter this elitist circle in 2023 with his first, second and third title and he didn't just enter the circle but crushed it. Stevens also appeared to be the most constant team in 2023 with rankings 1 (3x), 2 (5x), 3 (1x), 4 (1x), 8 (1x) and his worst rank 13 (1x). He has the best avg. ranking and the highest avg. points in a season. With Velasco he made history. For me clearly #1 of the division champions despite missing one title to Alkworld.

#2 - free team - The last dance
World Tour Titles: 3
Races: 360
Wins: 263
Win Percentage: 73,1%
Stage Race Wins: 1
Monuments: 3 (Lombardia, LBL, Ronde Van Vlaanderen)
Grand Tour Wins: 0
Avg. Rank: 6.0
Avg. Points: 10,524

Insane statistics! Free team was the most active team, most wins/year beating his own record from 2022, most monuments won in 2023, Younes Ouazzani pulverizing the most wins by rider record in 2023 (60 of his 122 wins in 2023). As a pure one day race team, free team could win 3 titles this year (two more than last year). Free team is our #2 division champion, farewell!

#3 - Alkworld - The title hamster
World Tour Titles: 4
Races: 319
Wins: 95
Win Percentage: 29.8%
Monuments: 2 (Lombardia, LBL)
Grand Tour Wins: 1 (GIRO)
Stage Race Wins: 15
Avg. Rank: 3.6
Avg. Points: 11,688

THE allrounder team par excelence, inventor of the morning chaos. Alkworld was the most successfull team in 2023 with 4 titles (Jan-Mar, Sep) and a very constant team as well. Alkworld towers over all with 22 titles in total. It was a very close call between free team and Alkworld for #2.

#4 - Alive And Dead - Cats and Dogs
World Tour Titles: 1
Races: 324
Wins: 83
Win Percentage: 25.6%
Stage Race Wins: 6
Monuments: 1 (MSR)
Grand Tour Wins: 2 (GIRO, VUELTA)
Avg. Rank: 6.4
Avg. Points: 10,217
Highlights: Volta winning 2 GT, back-to-back MSR win

Big gap between the top 3 and the rest. Our team, Alive & Dead could win the title again in the GIRO month May. Unlike last year, we could stay in Division 1 for the whole year without a hard generation cut after the GIRO. But the summer hole is visible as the team just rode 13 races in June. All in all the year was comparably successfull to 2022 but the opponents were much stronger. Last year we could win 4 titles (most in 2022) but especially the Vuelta win was a nice add-on this year.

#5 - Hansa - Last minute champ
World Tour Titles: 1
Races: 340
Wins: 44
Win Percentage: 12.9%
Stage Race Wins: 4
Monuments: 0
Grand Tour Wins: 0
Avg. Rank: 13.4
Avg. Points: 8,940

Mass instead of class (in a positive sense), no highlight rider, no highlight win but Hansa managed to get good results with aggressive riding. No classic win this year but the team focused more on stage races anyway. Good stage wins and classifications won on cat 4+ stage races. Hansa was the only Division winner that got relegated to division 2 throughout this year. It was the generation break in his team that caused the relegation but once the new generation was ready, Hansa constantly ranked between 1-4 just winning his one and only title in December. It was also his 10th overall Division 1 win (just 3 teams won it more often).

The suspended
The other two winners from 2022, were more inactive this year (Los Galacticos: 36 races in Jan/Feb, Team-Mojabahs: ~14races/month).

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*Stage wins may differ from the in-game statistics. Our analysis includes wins in TTT as well + there might be a small issue in the Split Stats that we need to find out, NC/NM are also included

[Gipfelstuermer]

Nice stats

Fascinating how those 5 teams have very different specialties.

stevens - the Grand Tour dominator
free team - the one-day race team, often without a pure climber
AAD - the Allrounder with every type of rider (Climber with TT, Climber, Classic with Sprint, Pavé, Hill Sprinter, Sprinter)
Alkworld - the team for every terrain except for mass sprints
Hansa - the one with the new generation (no obvious specialty, but a strong team for 2024 sure)

Somehow it shows, what a genius points system Buhmann had implemented, whereas the World Tour system for example clearly favors the Grand Tour specialists (reflecting fame/popularity in real life best though).

But I am missing something from our Div1-Stats-Specialist! What about 2024? What are your predictions? Who is going to win Div1? Who can seize the opportunity as free is leaving the ranks? Or do you keep it with Schrodinger: The Div1 crown is won and lost at the same time, until we find the winner?

[flockmastoR]

Nice stats

Fascinating how those 5 teams have very different specialties.

stevens - the Grand Tour dominator
free team - the one-day race team, often without a pure climber
AAD - the Allrounder with every type of rider (Climber with TT, Climber, Classic with Sprint, Pavé, Hill Sprinter, Sprinter)
Alkworld - the team for every terrain except for mass sprints
Hansa - the one with the new generation (no obvious specialty, but a strong team for 2024 sure)

Somehow it shows, what a genius points system Buhmann had implemented, whereas the World Tour system for example clearly favors the Grand Tour specialists (reflecting fame/popularity in real life best though).

But I am missing something from our Div1-Stats-Specialist! What about 2024? What are your predictions? Who is going to win Div1? Who can seize the opportunity as free is leaving the ranks? Or do you keep it with Schrodinger: The Div1 crown is won and lost at the same time, until we find the winner?

Well thanks! It's Difficult To Make Predictions, Especially About the Future. BUT

January is not too hard to predict, r TAKA already with a 1000+ points lead and a good old team to bring the win home. After that he will fall in a small intermediate low (selling Kübler, Dogan). Quite old team but I expect him to play a role with Fujiwara this year at the GTs. No GT win so far for r TAKA but I entrust he can make it and make a mid-year comeback on top. Stevens has the team for the year start with Nassouli and Ghirga but he has a big generation gap as well and no mountain strong leader for the GTs. Pokemonogatari will win a title again after 2 years pause. Fring is the guy! With the absence of free team r QUICK could play the one day race team role and win a title in the classics leaning months. So if I had to make a predition I would say:

r TAKA, stevens, Alkworld, Pokemonogatari, r QUICK

outsider chances: Hansa, Alive And Dead, Black-Star (nice young climber duo),

[Hansa]

Great Great I plan to win at least 1 Div 1 title again in 2024 but it could be hard because currently i am not really happy with my team and training.

But i am pretty confident i still can compete for Div 1 titles, as i managed to do it in 2023 even so i struggled a bit with my teambuilding here too.

With free dissapearing he will leave an obvious big hole but i wonder if any team can fill that hole enough to compete for multiple Div 1 wins in a year just with dominating in 1 day races.

And i wonder if stevens can keep up his 2023 pace (i doubt he can) or even come close to his performance without Velasco.

[bergwerk cycling]

thks for the summary ... after all your work i would do the same voting from 1-5.
Gratz to all the 5 winners and i hope my name will also appear in History 2024!!!!

[cataracs]

Nice stats

Fascinating how those 5 teams have very different specialties.

stevens - the Grand Tour dominator
free team - the one-day race team, often without a pure climber
AAD - the Allrounder with every type of rider (Climber with TT, Climber, Classic with Sprint, Pavé, Hill Sprinter, Sprinter)
Alkworld - the team for every terrain except for mass sprints
Hansa - the one with the new generation (no obvious specialty, but a strong team for 2024 sure)

Somehow it shows, what a genius points system Buhmann had implemented, whereas the World Tour system for example clearly favors the Grand Tour specialists (reflecting fame/popularity in real life best though).

But I am missing something from our Div1-Stats-Specialist! What about 2024? What are your predictions? Who is going to win Div1? Who can seize the opportunity as free is leaving the ranks? Or do you keep it with Schrodinger: The Div1 crown is won and lost at the same time, until we find the winner?

Well thanks! It's Difficult To Make Predictions, Especially About the Future. BUT

January is not too hard to predict, r TAKA already with a 1000+ points lead and a good old team to bring the win home. After that he will fall in a small intermediate low (selling Kübler, Dogan). Quite old team but I expect him to play a role with Fujiwara this year at the GTs. No GT win so far for r TAKA but I entrust he can make it and make a mid-year comeback on top. Stevens has the team for the year start with Nassouli and Ghirga but he has a big generation gap as well and no mountain strong leader for the GTs. Pokemonogatari will win a title again after 2 years pause. Fring is the guy! With the absence of free team r QUICK could play the one day race team role and win a title in the classics leaning months. So if I had to make a predition I would say:

r TAKA, stevens, Alkworld, Pokemonogatari, r QUICK

outsider chances: Hansa, Alive And Dead, Black-Star (nice young climber duo),

Big expectations from r TAKA, even I don't see that comeback mid season but we'll see

[Team stevens]

You have high expectations of me. I think I'm going to do 6 months of transition, I don't really have the time to do long stage races like I did in 2023. I've won a lot of big races and knowing me, I'll soon get bored if I set myself the same goals every year.

I'm going to try to win more than 113 races this year, and I'm trying to build a team for the one-day races (I'm in a training slump).

velasco's record is about to be broken by gustavo frings ( the guy takes him everywhere and is already optimizing at 21yo he'll have 400 races in his career). I'm already aiming to break Gustavo Frings' record… I'll probably take a 67 mountain with 72TT and the max possible in the side stat. 59 spr to scratch out stage wins/good places in one-day races. With a helper 82-70-79 and 55 reg. That's my personal goal.

He doesn't know who he's playing with, I never let go it's been 6 months I'm at war with the National comitee even though I know I'm wrong I hope this young child of prophecy will arrive in September-October.

I'll push him until he beats Gustavo and with a 1-point lead, I'll stop like I did with the former record-holder and Velasco. A bit like Bolt, I'll brake in front of the line to tell them "I've still got it under the hood".

There are only French guys in the fight for this damn record, it seems the German community isn't interested

[flockmastoR]

January 2024

Position 8 in Division 1 with 6,570 points. 27 races and 9 wins (2x Babai, 2x Iwachnenko, 2x Chau, 1x Dachwitz, 1x Fahrenheit, 1x Kalman). Additionally, Chau could win the Mountain jersey at the stage race highlight at Tour Down Under. Babai won a stage there but couldn't play a big role in the points classification. GC wise the tour was a disaster. At the final stage our team tried a last desperate try with our classic, but the (good looking) group was sec-trick blocked by Elaska. Chau finished 4th in GC, Baer was beaten by his own team manager once again.

Rider of the month
Not an easy choice for the rider of the month this time. But Laszlo Babai took the lead with 2 wins and the highest cat 3 win this month.

Transfers
We don't often buy South American riders, but our scouting for a cheap pave rider was outsourced to the manager of r Taka who came up with the 21 year old Chilean Roberto Frucht. He will focus on flat training in the coming months and he will be another cheap helper for (mostly) one day races.

Roberto Frucht, 21y
Start: 49-65-67-50-47-69.2 38reg
Goal: 55-82 with 81.1 pave

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February 2024

Starting the month in the middle of Division 1, after selling 3 riders we were deep in the relegation fight. In the end the UAE and Trofeo Laigueglia win brought us on rank 12 with 6,307. The team did 28 races, winning 7 races (Babai, Hamarat, Chau, Sievert, Dachwitz, Krausz, Oppenheimer) and 2 national championships (Hamarat, Krausz). Additionally Ferenc Krausz could win the GC at UAE (first stage race win since Vuelta 2023 ) and also the white jersey there. The team starts with 3,656 points at rank 11 (still in division 1).

Most impressive and surprising win was the win that kept us in the first division: Robert Oppenheimer winning Trofeo Laigueglia. It was a very intensive race with a big escape group, where Anton Rella was our captain. It looked pretty good for nearly 2/3 of the race, but the group was not that homogenous and starting with the leaders made some troubles. After getting rid of the 50 climb guys, Rella tried some early compensation of his mountain/sprint lead, but the group didn't work together. As Rella was the only one in tempo soon, and the gap already was under 4min, he decided to stop as well. Then immediately two riders attacked, resulting in losing the weaker one. But this was the start of collaboration and suddenly everybody joined the tempo. In the back it was just Crazy Vikings chasing after he missed the start (and the group). He then decided to attack out of tempo with his leaders pretty early (more than 3 laps to go) and Oppenheimer followed and also LeCun was in the group as a helper for Oppenheimer. Crazy was there with 3 riders and continued to chase the group. After a sieb by his climber, it was just a 2 riders Crazy Vikings group in front of the classics group that followed him. LeCun did pace for one lap, then bergwerks classic helper took over and finally, Holiday, Cotrufo and Oppenheimer brought the group 3 back to Crazy's duo and the leaders from the long escape. The final sprint then surprisingly went for Oppenheimer who decided to launch (with Rella in the wheel) at 200. It was the moment when Crazy's train went for the tricksprint and Oppenheimer couldn't be caught back.


Transfers
A young Ukrainian specialist for hilly terrain signed his contract at A&D. He will be trained as a 80-70 kind of rider. His name Wolodymyr Drinfeld.

Wolodymyr Drinfeld, 21y
Start: 73-55-72-54-59-54.2 43reg
Goal: 80-70 with 59 sprint

4 riders had to retire to hire Wolodymyr. Oleksij Iwachnenko (169 races, 28 wins, 4 points classifications), Carlo Avogadro (267 races), Karl Prachar (182 races, 5 wins, 1 GC win, 1 points classification), and Gabriel Fahrenheit (177 races, 2nd at Ronde Van Vlaanderen, 1 win).

Oleksij was a very successfull sprinter early in his carreer. He soon was on a path for 30+ wins. He was our captain in the 2023 Milano-Sanremo campaign which failed but Tesla winning was a good compensation for the team. His biggest win was the Maglia Ciclamino (points classification at Giro d'Italia 2023) where he could also win 2 stages. He could win 2 stages as well at the Vuelta Espana 2023. He won the BEMER Cyclassics, the points classification and 2 stages at Romandie 2023. With 1,880 points he was rider #22 in the World Tour 2023. Between February 2023 and October 2023 he could win at least one race each month (totally 25 race wins in 9 months) but after the real season was over and new sprinters joined the team, the focus was not on Oleksij any more. Very strong career for a hill sprinter in a GC focused team.

Oleksij Iwachnenko, 35, 169 races, 28 wins, 9,177 points
Bought: 49-56-65-59-81-60,2 46 reg
Peak: 64-59 with 86 sprint

Carlo was a reg strong helper. He was in tempo first at the GIRO 2023 contributing to the GC win of Volta. He could never shine on his own but was in escape groups regularly as well, mostly as a puller for other team members.

Carlo Avogadro, 34, 267 races, 449 points
Bought: 48-66-77-53-48-63.6 61reg
Peak: 50-80-81

Karl Prachar was a 70-80 classic with just 77 flat and good sprint. He mostly failed to follow the right attacks in big races or was not strong enough in the climbs. But he could win the Tour of Austria (GC and points classification +2s stages) which was the one highlight of his career. The second highlight was the win at Tre Valli Varesine. So all in all a solid career for a gap filler classic at A&D (young classic at GIRO peak end of the season+offseason, compare him with Detreköi).

Karl Prachar, 36, 182 races, 5 wins, 6,610 points
Bought: 56-72-75-56-64-65.4 46reg
Peak: 73-77 with 65 sprint

Gabriel was our pavé leader for early 2023 season. He had some mountain as well which made him the leader in almost all races with pavé (lacking a classic with good flat and/or good pavé). His biggest success was the 2nd place at Ronde Van Vlaanderen and his 4th places at Paris-Roubaix and Dwars Door Vlaanderen.

Gabriel Fahrenheit, 37, 177 races, 1 win, 2,653 points
Bought: 55-70-53-50-53-70.9 35 reg
Peak: 61-83-53-50-53-80

[flockmastoR]

Châujoins 5k Club

NgôBao Châu is the first pure mountain domestique to join the 5k club. He was helper for Volta during his Giro and Vuelta win and he is currently helper for Krausz during his UAE win and recently at Tirreno Adriatico. At todays mountain stage, Châu finished 2nd and achieved 5,127 points in his 94th race at the age of 34.


5k Club
Franz Schwackhöfer (26y, 71r)
Oleksij Iwachnenko (26y, 95r)
Boaz Trakhtenbrot (28y, 75r)
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]

February update added!

[flockmastoR]

March 2024

The team could collect 10,965 points and position 5 in Division 1. The team starts with 7,314 points at position 4. In 27 races A&D could win 5 races (3x Hamarat, Kalman, Krausz) and the GC at Tirreno-Adriatico (Krausz beating Baer). The classics were also very successfull but the big shot at one of the monuments was missing. MSR we just had the wrong tactic and/or the wrong group for our tactic. We hoped to gain a little advantage from the fight between classics/hill sprinters vs. sprinters and make a decisive attack with Hamarat in the end. But our group was surprisingly inactive (including ourself) and it soon was just a question of whether a classic group can get it or the big train sprint could be achieved. In that situation we decided to help for the sprint hoping to fake others into not following Hamarat but that strategy change also failed. In the end just the one train was doing a train and the result was pretty predictable. Babai just finishing 5th and a big defeat in trying to win MSR 3 times in a row. RVV on the other hand we just rode it to be part of it, being part of an Easter party, it was not possible for the manager to fully concentrate on the race. Therefore we missed the opportunity to be part of the winning group, which soon seemed to have big chances, concerning the favorite teams (or some of it). At some point Balinow even made some tempo, but at that point it already seemed hopeless and in fact we are more than happy that the escape won it. Other classics were more successfull starting with Strade Bianche that we surprisingly could win with our climber Ferenc Krausz after a big team effort. Babai could be second at De Panne in an inactive race by hanging on the best train but also without a chance for the win. Hamarat (E3) and Kalman (Gent-Wevelgem) could both win a Belgian classic out of a late attack (E3) and an early breakaway (Gent-Wevelgem). In between we could win the GC at Tirreno-Adriatico for the first time since the Friedrich Hund show in 2015.

Hard choice between Tunc Hamarat (3 wins including E3) and Ferenc Krausz (Winning Strade Bianche and GC at T-A) but in the end Ferenc Krausz made the race to be the rider of the month March.

Transfers
The U.S. American Roger Quickley joined our team yesterday. He is 21 years old and should support our team in hilly terrain in the future. Welcome R. Quickley!

Roger Quickley, 21
Start: 56-66-79-47-55-60.3 40reg
Goal: 62-80-79

[Robyklebt]

Image Roger Quickley, 21
Start: 56-66-79-47-55-60.3 40reg
Goal: 62-80-79

Wrong goal! With that reg, classic, classic! With 55 sprint can win stuff too! 74-72-79-47-55 much better

Also is that a mathematician? Why not Roger Quick, singer, just listening to "I'm a fool to care"

[flockmastoR]

Image Roger Quickley, 21
Start: 56-66-79-47-55-60.3 40reg
Goal: 62-80-79

Wrong goal! With that reg, classic, classic! With 55 sprint can win stuff too! 74-72-79-47-55 much better

Not decided yet, I mean the downhill is very, very nice for a 60-80 rider. But if Roger promisses to train well, I might go for a classic. 75-72 would be nice in combination with WoloDri. But I already planned Rella to be the well training classic guy. But now I have to think again, need to ask his scout about it.

Not a mathematician as like 80% of my riders. He is just the unknown brother of a Basketball player

[flockmastoR]

Krausz fastest member of the 5k Club

He got a second place at the first mountain stage at Romandie and took over the lead in the GC. He is the youngest climber to reach 5k and the fasterst overall after just 53 races.

5k Club
Franz Schwackhöfer (26y, 71r)
Ferenc Krausz (26y, 53r)
Oleksij Iwachnenko (26y, 95r)
Boaz Trakhtenbrot (28y, 75r)
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]

200k Eternal Points

Alive And Dead could reach the next milestone of 200k eternal points at the afternoon edition of LBL. Robert Oppenheimer got second and could keep the dream alive of the next Division 1 win.

Eternal Points: 200.101
Races: 1.250 (+532)
Wins: 266 (+138)
Wins in Classics: 15 (+9)
Stage Race Wins: 25 (+10)
Stage Race Podiums: 26 (+14)
Points Classifications: 24 (+11)
Mountain Classifications: 5 (+3)
Youth Rider Classifications: 8 (+4)
Team Classifications: 15 (+7)

(+ compared to last milestone of 100k points)

[flockmastoR]

April 2024


The team is back on top of Division 1. with 16,987 points beating r TAKA by ~500 points in a close finish. 30 races in April gathering 9,673 points lets us start on top for May. Start number 1 for Krausz at the GIRO seems fixed. All in all a very sucessfull month with 6 wins (2x Sievert, Krausz, Drinfeld, Oppenheimer, Dachwitz), 2 Stage Race wins (Sievert winning Pais Vasco, Krausz winning Tour de Romandie) another 2 podiums at stage races by Krausz (2nd Tour of the Alps, 2nd Giro d Abruzzo), 2 team classifications (Alps, Abruzzo), and a sprint jersey at Pais Vasco (Sievert). Additionally we reached 2 podiums at monuments/classics with Drinfeld finishing 2nd at AGR and Oppenheimer finishing 2nd at LBL.

Rider of the Months
Not easy, not easy but this month, Rolf Sievert wins the rider of the month award. All in all Pais Vasco was a very successfull tour thanks to Sievert and he kept the dream alive to win the Division 1.

Transfers
Right before the month change, the team signed the (then 22, now 23 year old) German helper David Schimmelpfennig. He was bought as second tempobolzer for the GIRO.

[flockmastoR]

Team starts with a new jersey!

Beginning with today, the team starts with a new jersey at the GIRO. After conquering the maglia rosa, the team will wear bikes with rosa frames and rosa helmets. It is a sign for the big goal of the GIRO tripple. Additionally, the light green jerseys are gone and the team will ride with a throuwback jersey of the Equipe Mathematique, but with two golden stars for the GIRO GC wins.

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Krausz joins 10k with GC win at the GIRO

Ferenc Krauez wins the Giro and is now our youngest and fastest rider to join the 10k club. He is the first Hungarian rider to win the GIRO and thanks to the success, A&D got the hattrick - 3 GC wins in a row in the afternoon, all with starting number #1.

10k club

Ferenc Krausz, 27y, 78r
Alessandro Volta, 29y, 96r
Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 32y, 129r
Nikola Tesla, 33y, 205r
Franz Schwackhöfer, 34y, 126r

[flockmastoR]

May 2024

A&D remain unbeaten in May. 18,479 Points and a Division 1 win with ~1600 points different. It is the 7th Division 1 win (in less then 4 years since the restart) and there are just 4 teams with more titles. 27 races and 2 wins (Drinfeld at the Giro, Oppenheimer). The month was dominated by the GIRO of course, where our main goal was to win the GC with Ferenc Krausz. This was easier than expected, but hardly any really strong lineup were present. So our team went for a side goal as well, winning the team classification. Stage wise it was not that successfull with just Drinfeld winning a hilly stage early with still low form. We wanted at least a mountain stage but having while Marquez was not beatable in the last week and some climbers had early form and Ferenc just has 49 sprint, we were not able to achieve that.

We start with 8,806 and rank 1 into June.

Rest of the month was not important, we missed the classic Eschborn-Frankfurt that we could win in 2023 in preperation for the Giro. Oppenheimer could win the last race of the month, making it a 2 wins month (worst since 06/22 in terms of stage wins).

Rider of the month
Ferenc Krausz, there is no second opinion, he could win Rosa at the Giro and is our 3rd climber why could win the GIRO. He collected many points in May with good stage results and wearing Rosa most of the time. He reached 4,289 points in May and will wear the RSF leader jersey from now on (with just a small gap on Max Villiger 4,246).

Transfers
We are proud to announce that Seweryn Obst signed a contract as our 2025 pave leader. He will focus on training for the coming months and his first goal is to ride the Tour de Pavés.

Seweryn Obst, 21y
Start: 48-73-68-54-48-72.7-55
Goal: 52-87 82,5 pave

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Leiberltausch

The national championships of Austria and Hungary were as successful as last time. We were able to defend the title in both countries but we won the races with different riders than last time. In Austria Tunc, Ilija and Anton all three went in the early escape. The start looked like the last time, EMAG riding in the back but this time the race was very steep and EMAG also went offline later. Together with the three AAD riders, two Sattelpupers and two Montania riders were in the group. Petition was out of tempo after the first third of the race, Sattelpuper than went in the back with 2 more riders at around 3-4 minutes. Luckily we still had Ilija pretty fit and Tunc was the 3rd beat climber in front and Anton was clearly better than Sattelpuper's leader. So we just went on and won the final sprint with Anton Rella. Very nice win als Anton was riding for Tunc's win last time and this time it is the other way around.

Hungary was more complicated. With Laszlo, Ferenc and Rudolp we had a sprinter a climber and a semi 60-80. But the group was small three quickstep riders (good semiclassiv with over 60 sprint, one 7x climber with 6x sprint). Medical and Radunion off with very strong flat riders, atb online with just one Rudolf similar rider. Plan was to be inactive and hang on the right guys. Quickstep then went with his 5x-7x guy. We put in Ferenc to control the gap and then went with Rudolf and Laszlo. Saving them for the last +6 where we did a sieb with Ferenc. Finally ATB went with his rider just followed by Rudolf who sucker enough to get the win on the -4 sprint. In between the quickstep sprint classic attacked on the back and caught us before the last km. But he was distanced in the downhill.

Other races were less successful. In the UK there was a nice battle between Bergwerk and Kreatief with Felsenland as a lucky winner. Watt had small outsider chances at some point but had to invest too much to get into the right group.

Maybe we will ride Germany but without big chances.

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June 2024

Third division 1 victory in a row. 27 races in June, 13,222 total points and we won it with about 800 points gap to Alkworld. 4 wins (2x Krausz, Babai, Kalman) and additionally 2 NC wins (Rella, Kalman) defending our two titles in Austrai and Hungary. June was dominated by the participation at Tour de Suisse, where Krausz could win the GC, 2 stages (including the HC ITT) and the team winning the Teams Classification. It was a Start Finish Victory as we could keep the gap, that we started with for the end of the month. A&D not participation in the TdF, so we expect the next month to be a fight against relegation (but with a good points base of 4,414 points). Let's see how many races we will do in July/August, maybe we need to go back to Division 2 at some points.

Rider of the month of course is Ferenc Krausz. He was able to beat Marquez at a HC mountain stage in Switzerland after many disappointing 2nd places in Italy. He could win his 5th World Tour stage race (UAE, T-A, Romandie, Giro, TdS) and is our deserved rider of the month June.

Transfers
NgôBao Châu retired from the team at the 19th at the age of 37. He mainly was a GC helper for Volta and later also Krausz. He was a solid #2 climber who won a lot of one day races. In 109 races he could gather 13 race wins, 2 GC podiums, a mountain jersey and a youth jersey. His biggest success was winning the Giro dell Emilia classic. His training was not that good, he reached 86, which is ok for a support climber, but he downtrained pretty fast and therefore was no option for the GIRO this year.

NgôBao Châu, 37, 109 races, 13 wins, 5,832 points
Bought: 73-51-76-48-51
Peak: 86-54-76

A new Lituanian climber talent joins our team in July. He will be the 2025 GC captain, even though we might not seek the 4th GIRO win in a row (maybe no GTs in 2025). But he truely has the talent to follow Trakhtenbrot/Volta/Krausz.

Andrius Baltuska, 21y
Start: 72-55-79-56-50-55.9 43 reg
Goal: 86-60-79-56 or 86-54-79-60

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Drinfeld joins 5k club (14.07.2024)

Wolodymyr Drinfeld joins the 5k club after an interesting one day race in Italy. He was the guy that brought Robert Oppenheimer in the winning position at Giro dell Appennino and finished on place 5 himself to reach the 5k club after 65 races at the age of 25. Therefore, he is our youngest member and the second fastest.

5k Club
Wolodymyr Drinfeld (25y, 65r)
Franz Schwackhöfer (26y, 71r)
Ferenc Krausz (26y, 53r)
Oleksij Iwachnenko (26y, 95r)
Boaz Trakhtenbrot (28y, 75r)
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)

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July 2024

Rank 12 in division 1 with 12 points. In 23 races we could win 8 races (3x Oppenheimer, 2x Krausz, Babai, Dachwitz, Drinfeld). Without being able to ride the Tour de France, our highlight was Tour of Austria which we could win (as in 2023). This time Krausz won the tour (incl. 2 stages) and Drinfeld won the points classification (incl. 1 stage). All in all a very successfull home stage race that saved our team from relegation in July. August will be a fight to stay in Division 1 with starting at place 16 (last) with 3,796 points.

Krausz is our rider of the month July, winning his 6th stage race and 2 stages.

Transfers
Rolf Sievert left our team yesterday and retired at the age of 35. In just 110 races he collected 4,182 points. His biggest success was the GC win at Pais Vasco (with 2 stage wins and the points classification). He won a mountain jersey at Castilla y Lean and 2 NCs in Sweden.

Rolf Sievert, 35, 110r, 4,182p
Bought: 56-74-69-67-56 39reg
Peak: 72-80 with 67 TT

Today, a 21 year old Austrian rider joins our team as a helper for flat and light hilly terrain in the future. Theodor Weinzierl will concentrate on training and might get a chance in some early one day races in August until the Vuelta starts.

Theodor Weinzierl, 21y
Start: 49-72-79-58-53-66 40reg
Goal: 60-82-79