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2022 Season Review: Breaking Down the UCI Team Rankings

Season Breakdown: The 2022 road season is in the bag and so Spencer Martin has taken a close look at the team performances. What does the UCI Team point rankings tell about which outfits over, and under, achieved during the 2022 season?

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With the recent running of Il Lombardia marking the end of the 2022 WorldTour racing calendar, I’ve been taking some time to reflect on the trends we saw emerge in the past season and plan out the BTP off-season content. To kick off this reflection and re-examination, I wanted to step back and take stock of how each team stacked up in terms of the UCI point rankings.

Below are the top 23 teams (18 1st division + 4 PT) in order of the UCI points they gained from their top 10 point-scoring riders throughout the 2022 season (aka the UCI point rankings).

As we can see, Jumbo-Visma takes the top spot in the UCI rankings for the second time in three seasons, with former powerhouse, Quick-Step, falling all the way down to 6th place. And perhaps even more surprising, Jumbo-Visma also ranks as the top team in wins (tied with UAE), while Quick-Step fails to win the season-long ‘win title’ for the first time in over ten years.

And below we can see how my pre-season BTP NET projection model stacked up against the post-season UCI Team Point Rankings.

2022 Team BTP NET Projections Compared to Their Final UCI Point WorldTour Ranking Positions: 1) Team Jumbo-Visma (1) 2) UAE Team Emirates (2) 3) INEOS Grenadiers (3) 4) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl (6) 5) Bahrain – Victorious (8) 6) BORA – hansgrohe (4) 7) Trek – Segafredo (11) 8) EF Education – EasyPost (15) 9) Groupama – FDJ (7) 10) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (9) 11) Movistar Team (10) 12) AG2R Citroën Team (13) 13) Israel – Premier Tech (16) 14) Team BikeExchange (14) 15) Intermarché Wanty Gobert (5) 16) Astana Qazaqstan (18) 17) Lotto Soudal (12) 18) Team DSM (17)

I will dive into team performance in further detail when I do my weighted BTP NET Rankings for the coming season, but below are a few quick takeaways from these initial results.

Initial Takeaways:

1) Jumbo-Visma is officially cycling’s new superteam

• After a multi-year turnaround project, the Dutch team is now home to some of the sport’s best riders (Wout van Aert, Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard) and will exit the 2022 season with a Tour de France overall title along with the most UCI points and wins.
• This is one of the most difficult achievements in the sport since the single-minded focus on winning an overall title at the grand tour usually means a team can’t compile enough wins and UCI points to lead the WorldTour.
• They will now head into the 2023 season as the undisputed best team in the sport and will have massive expectations on their shoulders at nearly every race where they take the start line.

2) Quick-Step fails to take the ‘win title’ for the first time since 2012

• Up until 2022, the Belgian team eschewed stage race results in order to rack up wins in one-day races and individual stages.
• While 2022 was disappointing in the respect that the team failed to take the win title for the first time since 2012 and produced their worst results in the cobbled classics since the founding of the team in 2003, it was a massive success in they won their first-ever grand tour (Vuelta a España) and unearthed the sport’s next big grand tour star in Remco Evenepoel.
• Assuming the team can hang onto Evenepoel beyond 2022 (he is being pursued by bigger-budgeted teams like Ineos), it will be interesting to see how the team sets its financial and sporting priorities going forward.
• Interestingly, while their 4th place finish in the UCI Points rankings is technically disappointing, it is the first time their pre-season BTP NET rankings have roughly aligned with their actual finish, which reflects that their past results have been more a result of the team’s structure producing an overachieving squad than pure talent.

3) UAE failed to defend its Tour de France, and struggled to look like a cohesive team at times, but produced their best season ever

• Tadej Pogačar’s UAE team failed to win the Tour de France for the first time since 2020, but their 2021 off-season spending spree appeared to pay off as they tied for first in the win title and were the only team within 2,000 points of Jumbo-Visma in the UCI points race.
• This shows us that while they appeared to struggle to select the right Tour de France lineup to support Pogačar and to race as a cohesive unit in the races where their superstar wasn’t present, they will head into the off-season viewing 2022 as a successful campaign and that they could potentially emerge as the sport’s most dominant team in future years if they can find the right racing formula to unlock the immense amount of individual talent on the team.

4) The French teams had a surprisingly strong year

• After years of struggling to maintain pace with their competition in the world of hyper-advanced training, French teams produced a strong 2022, landing five teams in the top 20 and staving off relegation, which allowed them to keep four teams in the 18-team WorldTour.

5) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert punched well above its weight

• If Alpecin was the underfunded overachiever of the 2021 season, Intermarché, who finished second-to-last in the 2021 WorldTour rankings, is the darling of 2022.
• With an extremely thoughtful team-building and in-race strategy, the underdog Belgian team was able to turn an 18th-place finish in 2021 into a shockingly high 5th-place finish in 2022.
• Most impressive is the gap between their BTP NET projection of 15th and 5th place finish, which shows that they really maximized the talent in their team.

6) DSM, EF, and Astana are in desperate need of a turnaround in 2023

• While Intermarché was flying high, three better-funded WorldTour rivals (DSM, EF, and Astana) suffered through absolutely awful seasons where points, wins, podiums and top tens were extremely hard to come by.
• While Astana and DSM struggled mainly due to weak rosters, EF’s extremely large delta between their BTP NET projected finish (8th), and their actual finish (18th), shows that their problems were more execution than talent related. I expect the American team’s off-season will include a significant amount of performance fact-finding to figure out how this could have happened.
• Putting just how poor the seasons of this trio were into perspective, while DSM only trailed AG2R by a single win, they finished over 2,000 UCI points behind the French team, which had a fairly disappointing season itself.

Next week I will be breaking down the top 20 in the UCI point rider rankings before getting into the usual BTP off-season content of digging deeper into team results and trends from the 2022 seasons in more depth, restarting the Weekly Transfer Analysis, and attempting to project 2023 performances with my BTP NET series after the rosters are set in January. An important note is that if you want access to all of these posts, you have to be a paying BTP subscriber .

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World Tour Promotion-Relegation Rankings

What do you see in the picture above? Three cyclists on a podium? The Flèche Wallonne podium? Right now some team managers see 400, 320 and 260 UCI points as they and their teams aim for promotion to the World Tour or worse, stress about relegation.

An update on the promotion and relegation standings as we’re now about halfway through the three year cycle. The relegation contest is raging and if it’s not front page news, well you’re already reading a niche blog about the sport so you’ll probably be thinking of this contest when looking at results in the coming months…

Relegation reminder It’s a three year process between 2023-2025 based on the sum of each team’s rankings for each year. The top-18 teams qualify for a World Tour place, a World Tour team below 18th place faces relegation. Riders score UCI points with race results and a team’s ranking is based on the total of its 20 best scorers.

Here are the current standings for this week. We’re almost exactly halfway now in the three year promotion/relegation cycle because the season is lop-sided with more points in the first half of the year than the second half thanks to a denser calendar and more World Tour events. The red line signifies the promotion-relegation barrier.

Let’s start with a quick look at the top of the table. UAE lead to the point of distorting the chart, if they weren’t so far ahead on the x-axis the gaps between others lower down would look wider. So here is the scoring for 2024 only, WorldTeams in blue, selected Proteams in red:

We can see Visma-Lease A Bike’s relative woes here, last spring all that was missing was the Ronde and Roubaix and they rightly made plans to fix this, now they’re well short of rivals UAE and instead scoring similar to Lidl-Trek and Alpecin-Deceuninck, top table but not table-topping. Bahrain start the year with a big cushion but have not been scoring much.

Promotion candidates Lotto-Dstny and Israel-PremierTech scored well in 2023 and have kept on doing so, even if the Belgian squad didn’t score big with Arnaud De Lie this spring because of injury and illness. Both are consistently scoring more than some World Tour teams.

Uno-X are the best of the rest and have expressed ambition to move up but start from behind this season and need to score more, they’re roughly 3,000 points short of the red line today.

Relegation battle Going to the relegation battle Arkéa-B&B Hotels and Astana are below the line. Both started the season in 19th and 20th place but Astana have scored few points since, Alexey Lutsenko won the Giro d’Abruzzo but it’s a 2.1 race and his GC and stage placing haul brought 150 points; team mates Christian Scaroni and Simone Velasco have scored more placing here and there. Collectively they don’t yet have 20 riders with UCI points.

Arkéa have picked up speed lately, this year they’re they 11th best team but hampered by last year’s bad start. New signings Arnaud Démare and Florian Sénéchal haven’t been scoring much, instead Luca Mozzato is their big winner with over 1,000 points today with 640 from finishing second in the Ronde.

DSM Firmenich-PostNL is only 500 points above the relegation line. Two of their three top scorers Oscar Onley and Warren Barguil are now out with injuries. After Astana they’re the other team not to have 20 riders scoring. It’s not a big deal if a team has a 20th rider with 1 point, it’s more about the top scorers but shows how they’re all finding it hard going to score. They need a good Giro, with Fabio Jakobsen, Romain Bardet and Max Poole able to score. The Firmenich corporate merger and the arrival of PostNL has come with talk of budget increases so they could buy themselves out of trouble too.

If Astana have the lowest score this season, of the current 18 World Tour teams next come Cofidis. They look only have a small cushion above DSM and ought to be worried. Top scorer Bryan Coquard’s had a more discreet start to the season but you can see in races he’s having to do more work for himself, the team has lost engines (and scorers) like Max Walscheid. Guillaume Martin is picking up pace.

Movistar can’t be sitting comfortably either. On paper Enric Mas should score in the summer but his traditional Tour-Vuelta combo is risky, a window to score big but it means he often doesn’t score much before and then it is subject to him avoiding illness and injury. Ivan Sosa should pick up some points too.

Outlook There’s still a year and a half to go but Lotto-Dstny and Israel-PremierTech look like solid promotion candidates, they did well last year and have kept this up. If anything they’re improving, Lotto are uncovering more talent like Maxim Van Gils and Lennert Van Eetvelt.

Promotion of two teams comes at the expense of two others and here Astana though have the proverbial uphill battle and to extend the metaphor, not enough climbing power to win it. They looked doomed although Lotto and IPT show relegation isn’t the end of things: if we can see Astana sent down to the ProTeam ranks, the question is really about their long term stability, do there sponsors settle for this? If they can sit 19th or 20th and harvest invitations thanks to some marquee riders it’s a sweetspot.

The other relegation spot is not easy to call from this far out. Arkéa are below the line so the obvious candidates but starting to score wide, DSM ought to have the quality to stay up but sport can be unjust while winless Cofidis look weak all round. So there’s a contest to watch in the coming months.

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Blackmore’s points are countted for IPT?

No, he’s riding for the IPT development team so the points stay with them… puts them above some ProTeams like Polti-Kometa, Kern Pharma etc.

D-AG2R in the 2024 top 5. Some renewed impetus with Decathlon taking the lead maybe?

They certainly stand out in the graphics as best improvers, could be new sponsor buzz, winning momentum or maybe just regression to the mean after a couple of relatively disappointing seasons in 22 & 23

It’s several factors, the new bike has been well received as the old one was getting a bit old but is it for real or placebo, either way it’s something mentioned by the riders. Management knew last season was rotten and tried to refresh things. Plus probably some luck going their way, it happens. Plus on the points side O’Connor and Cosnefroy are scoring as expected but it’s the rest of the team that’s taking plenty of points here and there, their 20th rider Retailleau is on 53 points, no other team except UAE has this depth of scoring.

Nice timing of this (both halfway thru, and after the results at FW) – thanks inrng.

Just wondered – could you colour-code or hatch the bars somehow so that the non-WorldTour (or WorldTour) teams stand out? Would be useful to have the distinction highlighted somehow.

(Also, at risk of over-complicating, might be interesting to see the rankings for the current season. eg a (1) in brackets for UAE after ‘11,840’, perhaps.)

Good ideas.

I was wondering about the relegation competition towards the finale of Fleche. Seeing Uno-X approaching the finish with 4-5 riders still present in the smallish lead group led me to wonder if it was an intentional strategy on their part to get a lot of riders into the top 20 for points.

Yes as the only team with no DNFs they got 220 points total between them, same as 4th place and making them 5th best team on points at mens Fleche

I feel like if Astana doesn’t make top 20 they won’t get any invites to races. Or at least that’s my hope.

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The New WorldTour Points System Explained

Following complaints from numerous teams about the WorldTour’s promotion and relegation system, the UCI has published new regulations with significant changes. The rule amendment has been published less than a month before the start of the new 2023-2025 triennium, whose cumulative ranking will determine which 18 teams will be part of the WorldTour in 2026-2028.

In summary, there have been three important changes, which will be discussed in more detail below:

• The UCI points scale gives much more importance to Grand Tours and Monuments, as well as to stages in WorldTour stage races.
• The UCI World Ranking for teams, both annually and across the triennium, will take into account the 20 best riders of each team, instead of 10 as at present.
• Teams relegated by the sporting criterion will have automatic invitations in 2023 for the entire UCI WorldTour, except for the Grand Tours. In practice, this allows Israel – Premier Tech to receive automatic invitations to all one week WorldTour stage races, even though they did not qualify for them under the rules in force during the 2020-22 triennium.

UCI Points Allocation

The UCI has revolutionised the scoring system for the next three years (2023-2025), with the objective of incentivising the best riders to participate in the most important races. To this end, they have multiplied by a factor of 1.6x the points allocated to the Monuments and the Road Race of the World Championships and Olympic Games. The points in the general classification of the Grand Tours and the ITT of the World Championships and Olympic Games have also been multiplied by a factor of 1.3x.

However, the most impactful change is the value of stages in Grand Tours and the rest of the WorldTour stage races. Whereas before only the top 5 in a Grand Tour stage and the top 3 in the rest of the WorldTour stages were awarded points, in 2023 the top 15 in a Grand Tour stage and the top 10 in the rest of the WorldTour stages will be awarded points. In addition, a much higher value will be given on places of honour in the stages. For example, in 2022 an individual stage in the Tour distributed a total of 240 UCI points, whereas in 2023 it will distribute 935 UCI points, a 290% increase.

In the following image, you can see the new scoring system, with the new Monuments category, differentiated from the rest of the classics. We recommend you to download it in high resolution from here .

Based on the calendar contested in 2022, this change in the scoring system means that there are 28% more UCI points at stake (308,903 vs. 241,027). But as the scoring of the continental circuit races has virtually remained the same (except for a slight increase in points for the ProSeries stages), this smaller calendar will see its importance reduced. Whereas under the previous scoring system the continental calendar shared half of the available UCI points, in 2023 it will share 40%.

As we can see in the graph, the most important races (Grand Tour, Monuments and Worlds) will now have a much higher weight (36% vs 23%). This was a demand from many WorldTeams and even fans, although it will hurt teams that do not have automatic access to those races, like Uno-X. The new scoring system will also benefit ProTeams that have wildcards for WorldTour races in 2023 (such as Lotto, Total and Israel) over those that do not (Uno-X and the rest), as they will be more likely to keep the invitations season after season with immediate access to the most profitable races.

Also the weight of the classics (except for the Monuments) is reduced in favour of stages in stage races. In 2022, all teams at risk of relegation added a large number of minor classics to their calendar, but from 2023 they will have to look for more places of honour in WorldTour stages. The forgotten riders of the previous points system, breakaway stage hunting specialists and consistent stage race sprinters, are suddenly much more valuable under the new scoring system. For example, Hugh Carthy targeted breakaway stages in the second-half of the Giro d’Italia 2022, placing fourth on the stages to Cogne and Lavarone, earning him a paltry 24 UCI points.

Under the new system, Carthy would have scored 160 points across both stages, a 567% increase. In the bunch sprints, Alberto Dainese scored 108 points across the three weeks of Il Giro 2022, but in 2023 he would have scored 370 points for his victory and five top 10 placements.

While most of the changes are logical, the UCI has left the door open to some schedule ‘optimisation’. For example, Continental Championships outside Europe still award 250 points to the winner of the road race (more than a stage of the Tour) and National Championships (some with a very low sporting level) still award 100 points to the winner of the road race.

20 Riders Count per Team

From 2023, the UCI World Team Ranking, used for the relegation battle ranking and to hand out automatic wildcards annually, will take into account the top 20 riders per team instead of the top 10. According to the UCI, this “will help to reduce the pressure currently imposed on only a limited number of riders, which can lead to a number of negative consequences (risks of injury, excessive number of race days, temptation to doping, etc.)”.

To better understand the impact of the new measure, the following graph shows how the 2020-2022 ranking would have changed if the top 20 riders had been taken into account. Lotto Soudal and Israel – Premier Tech would have been relegated anyway, although Israel would have been much closer to salvation.

The teams most dependent on their leaders (Jumbo, Alpecin, Movistar or BikeExchange) would have added the least percentage of points. ProTeams with shorter squads or without 20 riders capable to score points, such as Uno-X, Bingoal or Q36.5, will also be disadvantaged in 2023. Teams such as Quickstep or UAE Team Emirates, with large race programs and a deep pool of riders capable of scoring points, should be advantaged by this change.

The Israel Rule

The latest and perhaps most unexpected change is the UCI’s decision to “gift” Israel with invitations to all one week WorldTour stage races in 2023. It is worth remembering that Israel Premier Tech finished third in the ranking that awarded the 2023 wildcards and had therefore only won the wildcards to the one day WorldTour races on sporting merit. The UCI has clarified that the measure is temporary only for 2023, “coming as it does after three years of significant upheaval due to the global pandemic.”

This emergency measure by the UCI has surely calmed down Israel – Premier Tech owner Sylvan Adams after the millionaire threatened to sue the UCI for the implementation of the relegation system. Israel are also a favourite for the Giro and Tour discretionary organiser wildcards, so they will not feel the effects of the relegation as much, with the Vuelta being the only major race they will likely be absent from in 2023. The extra invitation for Israel takes a wildcard away from the organisers of one week WorldTour races and hurts again modest teams like Uno-X, Q36.5 or Kern Pharma.

The only constant about the UCI points and relegation system is that it is always changing, this time at very short notice. In imperfect systems there will always be winners and losers from structural changes such as these, with teams like UNO-X surely aggrieved by new regulations that make their path to WorldTour promotion more difficult. However if the changes function as intended, there may be some positives for the fans, with teams like Lotto-DSTNY now incentivised to send superstar Arnaud de Lie to more major stage races rather than entirely focussing on a local calendar.

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Always a must-read! 👏🏻 In your personal opinion will the “Sylvan Adams” rule actually help his team score more points? their squad seems weaker than it was last year so i don’t see them scoring many points in the 2.UWT races, even if they send their best riders, what would hurt their ability to score points at smaller races that occur at the same time.

Also it seems like a bad decision from the UCI to publish the rules change a week before 2023 and not much earlier when teams could’ve had times to perhaps sign other riders or tweak the training program, well unless the teams were told about these future changes in advance.

Good article indeed.

And announcement is too late indeed.

The fact they have starting right (not obligation) is obviously a plus for Israel. Also the increased points are obviously an advantage I think. They have more GC guys than Total and Lotto. Lotto also only has 26 riders under contract.

Short term only those two teams and Uno-X matter. If they do a lot more races than some of the WorlTour teams, they will promote again. But being in the top 2 of the ProTour teams is crucial for that promotion.

Lotto should now hire extra racers and also fully use the advantages of its development team (Total does not have a development team).

Overall I like the changes, and think they are all going in the right direction. I wonder if they have overshot the mark on some of them though.

The increase in points for stage wins is great. A stage win at the TdF worth more than a ProSeries win makes sense. I’m just not sure placings down to 15 needed points though. Maybe points just to the top 10 would have been enough.

Counting the top 20 riders seems an overshoot as well. I agree that the top 10 was too few. Was the “reasoning” to make sure domestiques didn’t feel pressure ? Maybe just the top 15 would be better.

Maybe next year, or in three years, we will see refinements and adjustments again, perhaps backing down a bit on these changes.

Agree that top 15 would have been better.

Top 20 is really bad for the protour teams with only 20 racers (although their chance to end up in the top 2 or promotion spots is low).

Also Lotto is kind of forced to hire 4 extra racers to score I think. There are still some options, but they are limited. They could also promote racers out of the development team whose points then probably count when they race with the development team in .1 and .pro races? It might remove their opportunity to do .2 races?

As for the top 15 spots that count in the Tour de France I like it for Tour de France as those positions still count for the Green Jersey. And for other stage races it is logical only the top 10 counts.

For the one day races, up the top 60 counts. I think that should be changed. For 1.1 races, you could count top 20, for 1.pro top 30, for 1.UWT top 40 and for monuments top 50.

Or even less points: top 10 for 1.1., top 15 for 1.pro, top 20 for worst UWT, top 25 for best UWT and top 30 for monuments. I am suprised they didnt change points in the one day races.

The reasoning is that under the old system we reached a point near the end of the year where riders outside the top 10 on good form had to domestique for riders in the top 10 because otherwise they wouldn’t score any points.

Indeed. That was bad. It had to be more than top 10 racers, but 20 seems too much.

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Silly question, if you will: are all WT teams safe now until the next triennium in ‘26, or do we go again next year, for the final year of the past three? PS, I refresh this page most days for the next instalment, keep up the great work.

Everyone keeps their WT license for the next 3 years based on the promotion / relegation system. Of course some teams may fold or lose their license for financial or other reasons, but promotion / relegation is only on a 3 year cycle.

The wildcards for the Proteams like Lotto, Israel and TotalEnergies is determined annually though

Brilliant, thanks…and Merry Christmas

En principio me pareció que aumentar la puntuación en carreras WT era necesario y merecido, en cuanto eso me parece correcto, sin embargo el análisis conlleva al problema de la factibilidad de que los actuales equipos WT de desempeño medio bajo y Pro con invitación a las pruebas WT se mantengan ahí sin afanes y muy cómodos, y que equipos ProTour (especialmente los de licencias distintas a la española, francesa, italiana y belga) se vean tan damnificados en aspirar a ascender de categoría que tal vez varios prefieran migrar próximamente a continental. Creo que con esto se crea un veto.

Los cambios favorecen la estabilidad de los equipos WT y dificultan los cambios y los ascensos. De todos modos, está bien que se mantenga el sistema de ascensos y descensos después de tantas presiones. Si los equipos de segunda división hacen bien su trabajo seguirán teniendo sus opciones de ascender, aunque sea un poco más difícil.

Muchas gracias Raúl. Tremendo trabajo. Este post es de lectura obligatoria para cualquier persona que siga el ciclismo profesional.

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Araxa keeps the Brazilian party going in the second round of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Series

Published 17/04/2024 at 00:15 GMT

The second round of this year’s UCI Cross-country Olympic (XCO) and UCI Cross-country Short Track (XCC) World Cups rolls into Araxá in Western Minas Gerais state (Brazil), and if the opening round in Mairiporã is anything to go by, fans are in for another festival atmosphere.

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Relegation watch - Movistar drop to 18th in UCI WorldTour team rankings

Automatic invites for top two ProTeams pit Israel-Premier Tech against TotalEnergies

In the week since the end of the Tour de France, there have been four races that have had an impact on the UCI World Rankings for 2020-2022, the all-important number that will determine which 18 teams will be eligible for the WorldTour in 2023. With some key results from BikeExchange-Jayco and EF Education-EasyPost, it's Movistar who find themselves dipping to the bottom of the 'safe' zone.

This week's movement is thanks largely to the idiosyncrasies of the rules where only the top 10 scoring riders of the year count toward the team rankings. Read more about how the UCI WorldTour points system works . Lotto Soudal and Israel-Premier Tech remain in the relegation zone, although the Belgian team took advantage of the Tour de Wallonie on home soil to continue to claw their way out of the danger zone, earning 110 points thanks to Arnaud De Lie's stage win and Maxim Van Gils' seventh place and Harm Vanhoucke's 12th in the overall.

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Israel-Premier Tech, in comparison, gained only 64 points in the same period mainly because the riders who scored the most weren't in their top 10. Giacomo Nizzolo's results, a stage win at the 2.1-ranked Vuelta a Castilla y Leon and 15th on GC, and Carl Frederik Hagen's minor placings counted, but Jenthe Bierman's 30 points for eighth on GC did not. Omer Goldstein's ninth place moved him onto the team's top 10 and earned 40 points - dropping Krists Neiland's points out of their total. Lotto Soudal and Israel-Premier Tech are separated by a thin margin of just 157 points but they have over 4,000 on TotalEnergies, whose hopes of moving into the WorldTour are fading fast. The next rung up - 18th place - is 763 points away and now held by the Movistar Team.

The rest of the WorldTour teams can't let their guard down but they should be breathing a little easier now that the gap to 19th is growing. EF Education-EasyPost, Cofidis, BikeExchange-Jayco and Movistar are separated by just 180 points but that gap will yawn out during the Vuelta a España unless Lotto Soudal or Israel can pull off a major GC result.

Movistar dipped below both BikeExchange-Jayco and EF Education-EasyPost into 18th because only four of their top 10 riders scored points. With some major home races coming up, like the Vuelta a Burgos and the Vuelta a España, they will more than likely build on their tally and not drop that far in the rankings.

After struggling during the Tour de France, the team were mid-pack this week thanks to Alex Aranburu's 50 points between Circuito de Getxo (40 for sixth) and his second in stage 1 of Tour de Wallonie, worth 10. Alejandro Valverde picked up 25 in Getxo for ninth, and Anthony Pedrero gained 24 for 19th in San Sebastian.

BikeExchange-Jayco, meanwhile, had a strong week with Simon Yates winning the overall Vuelta a Castilla y Leon and a stage and a sixth place in the Clasica San Sebastian that together earned 279 of the team's 287 points this week. They lead Movistar by an estimated 68 points.

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EF Education-EasyPost built upon their Tour de France momentum by climbing over Cofidis into 15th, although it's by a miniscule 6 points. Georg Steinhauser's 25th place at Circuito de Getxo (3 pt), James Shaw's 70 for sixth in Tour de Wallonie and Jonathan Caicedo's 60 from Castilla y Leon didn't count since they're not in the team's top 10.

Rigoberto Urán's 80 points for ninth place in San Sebastian, Esteban Chavez's 27 points between Castilla y Leon (3 for 25th on GC) and Ben Healy's 10 points for 15th on GC in Wallonie made up their point haul this week.

The real battle will be fought for which two ProTeams will be the top two ranked at the end of 2022 and get the honour of automatic invitations to the major races like the Tour de France. It's been Arkéa-Samsic and Alpecin-Deceuninck for the past two years but those two teams soared up the 2020-2023 rankings and will more than likely be in the WorldTour.

Whoever is relegated, assuming they will continue as a ProTeam, as Lotto Soudal have indicated they would, will be up against the wall for results through October - and not only results in general, but results from their top 10 riders.

Lotto Soudal are in a comfortable position this year, currently 12th in the 2022 rankings and an 852-point lead over the next-ranked current ProTeam, TotalEnergies. Israel-Premier Tech have 433 points to make up to get over the French team. The Vuelta a España will be extremely important for the team's future.

Movistar, BikeExchange-Jayco, EF Education-EasyPost, Team DSM and Astana are all behind TotalEnergies so far this year - all the more motivation to keep an eye on the points and not dip behind Lotto Soudal in the three-year stats.

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2024 RBC Heritage fantasy golf rankings, picks, strategy: Back Will Zalatoris, fade Ludvig Aberg

W hen creating Fantasy golf lineups for the 2024 RBC Heritage, one shouldn't overlook players that struggled last week at the Masters. Yes, Scottie Scheffler is the +400 favorite after winning another green jacket, but Scheffler also didn't even notch a top-10 in his lone start at Hilton Head. Meanwhile, golfers like Jordan Spieth and Emiliano Grillo missed the cut at Augusta but have two top 10s over their last three starts at the RBC Heritage. Balancing recent results versus course history is one of the key components to forming a winning RBC Heritage Fantasy golf strategy.

Spieth has three top-2 finishes over the last two calendar years, and two of those have come at this tournament. He won in a playoff versus Patrick Cantlay in 2022 and lost in a playoff to Matt Fitzpatrick at last year's tournament. However, coming off the worst Masters score of his career (+9), can Spieth bounce back to make a positive impact in Fantasy golf lineups? Before making any 2024 RBC Heritage fantasy golf picks, you have to see the RBC Heritage fantasy golf rankings from SportsLine handicapper Eric Cohen .

Cohen is an avid golf bettor who correctly predicted the pre-tournament outright winner of the 2024 Masters (Scottie Scheffler, +350), Players Championship (Scheffler +550), 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic (Rickie Fowler +1400), 2023 PGA Championship (Brooks Koepka +2000), 2023 Honda Classic (Chris Kirk +3500), 2022 Open Championship (Cameron Smith +2200), 2022 U.S. Open (Matt Fitzpatrick +2500), and 2022 Phoenix Open (Scheffler's first career victory at +2800).

Cohen is a contributor to SportsLine's YouTube shows including "Early Edge" and is the host of "The Early Wedge" golf show. Anyone who has followed Cohen's predictions has made positive gains on their golf picks.

Now, Cohen has ranked his top golfers for the 2024 RBC Heritage.  Cohen's picks are only available at SportsLine .

2024 RBC Heritage expert picks

One player Cohen is getting behind for his fantasy picks is Will Zalatoris as a serious contender at +2500. The former Wake Forest Demon Deacon returns to the Carolinas fresh off a ninth place at Augusta. It was his third top 10 of the season -- all at signature events or majors -- so he performs his best against the toughest fields. He played Harbour Town Golf Links once before and was near the top 10 heading into Round 3 before a tough weekend knocked him down the leaderboard.

This course is laden with water hazards, and it also features some of the smallest greens of any PGA Tour course. Thus, accuracy is essential, and Zalatoris ranks 10th in driving accuracy percentage. He also has top 25 rankings in both strokes gained: tee-to-green and strokes gained: approach the green, so those tiny greens shouldn't pose much of a problem to him. If his putter is on, as it has been in his recent top 10 finishes, then Zalatoris could be a Fantasy golf sleeper pick for the 2024 RBC Heritage.

On the other hand, the golf expert is fading Aberg, who finished second at the Masters, at +1400 odds this week. He was impressive in his debut at Augusta and will now compete at Harbour Town Golf Links for the first time. However, Aberg struggled at a comparable course of TPC River Highlands at the Travelers Championship. Like Harbour Town, TPC River Highlands is a Pete Dye design, and Aberg finished 24th at the Travelers and was 10 shots back of the winner.

Aberg also hasn't yet displayed the consistency on tour as other top-ranked golfers. Before his runner-up at the Masters, he had four top 5 finishes in official tour events. However, he failed to even place in the top 10 in the four PGA tournaments following those top 5s. Aberg's still in his first calendar year as a professional and has lots to learn in terms of navigating a PGA Tour schedule, and with no prior experience at a tricky course, Cohen doesn't see the Swede as warranting a spot in Fantasy golf lineups.  See all of Cohen's RBC Heritage picks at SportsLine . 

How to set 2024 RBC Heritage Fantasy golf lineups

For this week, Cohen is backing several underdogs in his 2024 RBC Heritage fantasy golf picks, including a triple-digit longshot whose odds "don't make a ton of sense" and could help spice up your Fantasy golf lineups.  See who it is, and get all of Cohen's fantasy golf picks, at SportsLine . 

Who wins RBC Heritage 2024, and who are the top players to target for your PGA fantasy golf picks?  Visit SportsLine now to get Eric Cohen's fantasy golf rankings , all from the fantasy expert who has called seven outright winners since 2022, and find out.

The Masters 2024: Fantasy DP World Tour – top performers and their keys to success 

We analyse three standout performers and the keys to their success at the 88th Masters Tournament , the first men’s Major Championship of the season on Fantasy DP World Tour.

Scottie Scheffler

The American lived up to his billing to win a second Green Jacket in three years at Augusta National Golf Club. 

The World Number One took the favourite’s tag in his stride and won his second Major with a four-stroke victory to pick up 191 points for those who picked him.

With 20 birdies across the four rounds, Scheffler was second only to Nicolai Højgaard in that regard, while he was one of just 17 players to record an eagle across the four rounds.

Of the 89 players who started the tournament, he ranked 11th for Greens in Regulation for the tournament, while he was 16th for driving accuracy – he made 12 of 14 fairways in both the third and first rounds.

Amen Corner has long been viewed a key stretch in the outcome of the Masters, with Scheffler playing holes 11-13 in a cumulative two under as an eagle at the par five 13th helped him to open a slender lead heading into the final round.

Ludvig Åberg

One of four DP World Tour members among 20 in the field to be making their Masters debut, the Swede proved an astute selection as our Form Horse in our preview, picking up 170 points.

Ahead of his first Major appearance – less than 12 months on from turning professional – the 24-year-old had registered three top 10s across his prior six PGA TOUR starts.

With the opportunity to become only the fourth player to win the Green Jacket – and first since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979 – on their first start, Åberg came close to writing his name into the Masters history books.

He was the only player in the field not to three putt the whole week, ranking fourth best for putting (the average number of putts per green in regulation).

His short game ability was also in evidence as he had a 100% success rate for sand saves, getting up and down on six occasions – a feat bettered by only one other player.

Tommy Fleetwood

The Englishman arrived at Augusta National without a top 10 to his name in his previous seven appearances but will have left it hoping he has cracked the Masters code.

The Englishman has an impressive record in the Major Championships, having been runner-up at The Open Championship and U.S. Open, a factor that surely proved influential in him being selected by 14% of Fantasy players.

His closing bogey-free three-under-par 69 saw him tie for third on the leaderboard and ensures he now has top tens in three consecutive Major starts.

Across the board, seven-time DP World Tour winner Fleetwood’s game was in excellent working order.

He ranked second for driving accuracy and also finished in the top 10 for the Greens In Regulation, Putting and Sand Saves categories.

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What is next.

The Asian Swing picks up next week in Japan with the ISPS HANDA – CHAMPIONSHIP at Taiheiyo Club.

The penultimate event in the third Global Swing of the 2024 Race to Dubai features home stars Rikuya Hoshino and Keita Nakajima, both winners on the DP World Tour this season.

Team entries are live here .

If you have not done so already, you can sign up to play the official 2024 DP World Tour Fantasy game and submit your six-man team before the first round gets under way on Thursday:  https://fantasy.dpworldtour.com/

The 2024 season-long winner will win a trip to the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai next year, enjoy a lesson with a DP World Tour professional and a round of golf on the Earth course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. For more information on this amazing prize and others, read  here .

Fantasy Insight: As it stands, France's World Number 22 Matthieu Pavon is the favourite for players of our  Fantasy Game for next week , featuring in 64% of teams. Other popular players include home favourite Keita Nakajima (59%) and South Africa's three-time DP World Tour winner Christiaan Bezuidenhout (50%).

Season so far - 2024 DP World Tour Fantasy player rankings

Tournament Guide: Abu Dhabi Challenge 

The Road to Mallorca resumes this week in the first of two events to be held in the UAE, as the Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting and Golf Club plays host to the Abu Dhabi Challenge from April 18 - 21. Here’s everything you need to know for the week ahead.

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