Last year I did a number of these posts. However some of the data was very unchanging as a large portion of the peloton does not to a whole bunch after the first week in April. So I decided that I would wait until after the Giro to post up this info.

Where do I get these numbers from well two years ago Tgartner proposed a System to determine rider value that took into account the cost of the rider in a way that pure efficiency does not. For instance Sebastian Turgot has an efficiency of 470 while Thomas De Gent has an efficiency of 282.5. does that mean that Sebastien was a better buy than Crazy Thomas? What Tgartgner suggested was taking the rider cost multiplying it by a number of points, then subtracting that total from the production of the rider. This means that while it is still easier for low priced riders to do well, a high priced rider that performs well gets his due as well. The number I use for my base production is 55 close enough to Tgartners number to work and easy peasy for me to remember. So Sebastian's Value is 415 (475-1*55) and Crazy Thomas has a Value of 455 (565-2*55) so relative to his cost Thomas has outperformed the more efficient Sebastien.

What does all this mean for your favourite FSA DS riders well....

It means that these are your top 20 riders including ties.

Here are your top costing riders and their efficiencies.

Your top producer at each of the lower point Values.

So Right now it definitely looks as though I would have been better off dropping Farrar and Griepel and picking up Voeckler and Boonen. Ahhhh Hindsight and the VDS! So there you go! Rider values after the Giro. We all know that that table will look a lot different in two months but, Cadel, Schleck, and Gilbert are in very deep holes and not much season left to pick up all that slack!