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Man-Game Rider of the Year 2015 - Results
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| Selwink |
Posted on 02-12-2015 10:31
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Time for the second edition of the Rider of the Year. The idea is not necessarily to pick the best rider of the year, but rather the one that stood out most. This can be due to having the best results, but it could also mean the most overperforming or most attacking rider, or fantastic domestique. In any case, I'll have you decide on what you prefer.
Any rider, on any team, any division is eligible. The manager of the team does not necessarily have to be active, it's the riders that count.
First up is the rider nomination. Some riders will be automatically nominated, but others are up to you to nominate.
The riders automatically nominated are the rankings leaders of each division, as well as the PT monument winners, world champions and GT winners (including America).
The other nominations are up to you. You can nominate two riders by sending a PM to me, please mention the team name as well. You are allowed to nominate riders on your own team.
Any rider who has received at least 3 nominations (or 2 if low participation, will be decided afterwards) will be officially nominated. Nominations are open already. The deadline will be this sunday at 15:00 CET
As soon as all nominees are announced, voting will be opened. You are able to vote for 5 riders, in your preferred order. The first will be awarded 8 points, the second 5, the third 3, the fourth 2 and the fifth 1. To vote, fill in the voting sheet below and send it in table form as a PM to me. Voting for your own riders is not allowed.
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | | 1 | Rider 1 | Team | 8 | | 2 | Rider 2 | Team | 5 | | 3 | Rider 3 | Team | 3 | | 4 | Rider 4 | Team | 2 | | 5 | Rider 5 | Team | 1 |
The deadline will be announced later on.
As soon as the voting closes, I will announce the winner. This rider can proudly be called the ManGame Rider of the Year 2015.
Who are allowed to participate?
Both nominations and voting is allowed for everyone, including those who don't have a team (anymore).
What's the point of all this?
It's just something fun for the offseason. Plus it hopefully stimulates interaction between the division, which is what we have hoped for throughout the season.
Yes, it is. In fact, I even recommend it if you want to nominate a fantastic domestique/attacker.
| | 1st | | 2nd | | 3rd | | 2014 | | Yuri Trofimov | | Andy Schleck | | Eduard Beltrán | | 2015 | | Simone Ponzi | | Sam Bewley | | Aleksandr Pluchkin |
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them below
Edited by Selwink on 15-12-2015 15:48
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| Selwink |
Posted on 02-12-2015 10:31
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| Natnael Berhane | | Eritel-Sonatrach | | Sam Bewley | | Becherovka-Petrof | | Alberto Contador | | Bonsucro | | Marc de Maar | | Carlsberg-Danske Bank | | Anthony Lavoine | | Fablok-Dunlop | | Aleksandr Pluchkin | | Metinvest-Dacia | | Simone Ponzi | | Good Energy | | Luis Leon Sanchez | | Evonik-ELKO | | Andy Schleck | | Vesuvio-Accumalux | | Danny Summerhill | | Azteca-NBCSN |
Edited by Selwink on 06-12-2015 16:25
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| knockout |
Posted on 02-12-2015 10:46
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 LLS
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 02-12-2015 10:53
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I know Lavoine won't win, but...
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| Roman |
Posted on 02-12-2015 11:37
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Anyone who is not going to vote for Sam Bewley with any of his votes clearly hates that guy! He really deserves another win as he have not win anything already for a few weeks! Bewley and I would clearly enjoy to win something again. Please vote for Sam! 
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| roturn |
Posted on 02-12-2015 11:52
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Ponzi, Bewley, Pluchkin or Schleck.
No other deserves this award as it feels like everything was won by those 4. Not even LLS, Summerhill or Bazzana.  |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 02-12-2015 11:55
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I think this is preety easy win by Ponzi in all fairness.
Bewley with his stats had no competition at all, Plukchin had no competition at all he didn't race single 85 MO in any of the Grand Tours.
Meanwhile Ponzi with 82 hill did the Quadraple, no brainer for me!
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 02-12-2015 12:02
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Vote for Aleksandr the Great!
If you wont, i will use all possible money to train him further, so he can win it next year. And that will continue until he will win this prize!
Alak, i see what you did there. 
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 02-12-2015 12:02
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I think if it wasn't for Ponzi's amazing season then Sagan would have been in with a shout as he seemed to over perform everywhere but I just can't look past the Good Energy rider.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 02-12-2015 12:41
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Ponzi was another level. Would feel bad if I voted for anyone else than him.
Pluchkin and Schleck, Bewley and LLS to contest for the remaigning podium spots.
Edited by dev4ever on 02-12-2015 13:19
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| Heine |
Posted on 02-12-2015 13:07
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Ponzi, Bewley, Pluichkin and Swift for me. Haven't followed PCT/CT enough to say anything clearly there.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 02-12-2015 13:31
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Hmm I'd have to know what Bakari did first, before making up my mind. Anybody seen him do anything this season? |
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| matt17br |
Posted on 02-12-2015 15:02
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Ponzi or Bewley will probably contest the top step, with maybe Schleck as an outside bet. If we're talking about overperformance as well then Sagan has to be there as well because some of his races are just impossible to explain. Would be nice to see Spilak 2nd/3rd as well, because he was one of the most consistent.
No one even talks about Contador? It was impressive to see him battling with riders with higher stats and most of the time coming out on top. Then there's Summerhill, which basically didn't win 2 cobbled races the whole season hehe. Except Lavoine, no one really stood out in CT imo.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 02-12-2015 15:21
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Alakagom wrote:
I think this is preety easy win by Ponzi in all fairness.
Bewley with his stats had no competition at all, Plukchin had no competition at all he didn't race single 85 MO in any of the Grand Tours.
Meanwhile Ponzi with 82 hill did the Quadraple, no brainer for me!
Exactly this. Bewley is always monsterous so he'd have to go pretty much unbeaten i'd say to win rider of the year. Pluchkin was impressive, two GT's and a WC is not to be sniffed at by any rider.
But Ponzi, wow. Not only was he really really impressive, he outperformed all expectations on him considerably. He was both succesful and surprising, what more do you need to crown him a winner?!
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 02-12-2015 15:47
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Maybe you guys should consider a certain Curacaon for your Rider of the Year. With a top main stat of 74 hill, he managed to attack and attack to finish 4th in the CT individual rider's standings, while single handedly giving his team half their victories and ranking points, propelling them to the top half of the division almost by himself.
#MarcDeMaar2015
Edited by baseballlover312 on 02-12-2015 19:45
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| roturn |
Posted on 02-12-2015 15:58
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Wanted to nominate De Maar.
Also had Hirt, Summerhill, Bazzana as overperformers.
Then read, only 2 nominations. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 02-12-2015 22:56
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I'll nominate Danny Summerhill for sure. Clearly the strongest PCT cobbled rider with 4 wins, and not far off double the points of Vanspeybrouck, plus a strong PT showing, particularly at OHN.
2nd nomination slightly harder, but have picked Mikhail Ignatiev, as really a Top 20 in the PT standings is quite remarkable for him. He was 80th in his last full PT season in 2013, and to score over 1000 points is unexpected to me.
De Maar did great, but with his all-round stats, I wasn't surprised to see him do so well.
Special mention to Ben Swift for beating Sam Bewley more than any other rider could manage.
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 03-12-2015 00:51
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I thank you for not needing to nominate Summerhill who I think had probably the most dominating season in the PCT (as well as winning PT stage, and 2nd for the GC, 3rd at Appia as well), obviously he is a only a threat on the cobbles but he took those races by force, and really didn't have much for support from his team. (Something I hope to fix next season...).
As a PCT manager, I didn't get to watch Bewley all season, but certainly from the few races we rode at the WT level (P-R, OHN, and Appia - two of which Bewley won) there was an obvious reason why he was the top point scorer this year.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 03-12-2015 03:56
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This is not even a competition, it's Ponzi all the way. reasons, look up alak post. Next up Schleck.
Nomination:
Serebriakov
Kupfernagel
Contador
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 03-12-2015 07:16
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Campaign post nr.2
Seeing some posts about Ponzi being clear winner, followed usually by Schleck and Bewley, what more could Pluchkin do to be the guy? I know, win 4/4 races he was in, now he just have won dull 3/4 including two GTs.
People say he had no competition, really? Facing two 84 climbers at Vuelta, still winning by almost 4 minutes, that is proof of top class, no proof of no competiton.
Tour de France? Two 84 climbers and two more 83 climbers and he slaughtered them by almost 5 minutes. His fault, or his glory?
On top of that, ITT WC title, to have a best GT rider season ever, hardly to be ever replicated in the future if race days rules should stay similar. You cant squeeze more points from a stage racer. 
Still he is being rated behind guys, who were beaten in more of 50% of their race days? Ok
*end of roleplay part of post, ,dont take it too seriously*
Thanks for nominating Ignatiev SN, i agree that his season was spectacular, but i was rather surprised by low expectations for him, he is still the guy with most uniques skill set in the game. And maybe one of the hardest ones to make a race plan for, since he is actually not best in TTs, but as an endurance sprinter and late attacker for flat and semi-hilly races. It took me a while to understand it, just in time to give him nice season before he starts declining soon
(with nice portion of luck ofc).
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 03-12-2015 07:32
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