Riders from Team's Home Nation

[Dogtrousers]

Here's a pointless bit of stattery.

Have you ever wondered which WT teams have the most number of riders from the team's Licence Country? Well, wonder no more.

Team	Country	Home riders	%
Groupama - FDJ United	France	23/29	79%
UNO-X Mobility	Norway	21/30	70%
Lotto Intermarché	Belgium	16/30	53%
Movistar	Spain	14/28	50%
Soudal Quick-Step	Belgium	14/30	46%
Picnic Post NL	Netherlands	11/28	39%
Alpecin-Premier Tech	Belgium	11/30	36%
Decathlon CMA CGM	France	9/28	32%
Ineos Grenadiers	Great Britain	7/29	24%
Jayco AlUla	Australia	7/29	24%
Visma Lease a Bike	Netherlands	6/29	20%
EF Education - EasyPost	United States	4/29	13%
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	Germany	4/30	13%
Lidl - Trek	Germany	3/30	10%
XDS Astana	Kazakhstan	2/30	6%
NSN Cycling	Switzerland	1/29	3%
Bahrain Victorious	Bahrain	0/28	0%
UAE Team Emirates XRG	United Arab Emirates	0/30	0%

FDJ top the list with 23/29 French riders. Aside from that they have 2 Kiwis, a Luxemburger, one Swiss, and two Italians. That's positively cosmopolitan compared with Uno-X in second with 21 Norwegian riders out of 30 but all of the other 9 are Danish.

None of this is terribly surprising or, I'm afraid to say, very interesting.

Maybe I'll do a similar analysis for the WWT. Maybe I won't

 

[Dogtrousers]

Here it is for the women

Team	Country	Home riders	%
Visma Lease a Bike	Netherlands	7/15	46%
Uno-X Mobility	Norway	9/20	45%
FDJ United - SUEZ	France	7/16	43%
SD Worx - Protime	Netherlands	7/17	41%
AG Insurance - Soudal Team	Belgium	6/18	33%
Liv AlUla Jayco	Australia	5/15	33%
Movistar	Spain	5/17	29%
Fenix Premier Tech	Belgium	5/19	26%
CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto	Germany	2/16	12%
EF Education-Oatly	United States	2/17	11%
Picnic Post NL	Netherlands	2/17	11%
Human Powered Health	United States	2/20	10%
Lidl - Trek	Germany	1/19	5%
UAE Team ADQ	United Arab Emirates	0/20	0%

Overall 29% of the riders in the men's World tour ride for a team with the same nationality as themselves. It's 24% for the women.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Here's a pointless bit of stattery.

Have you ever wondered which WT teams have the most number of riders from the team's Licence Country? Well, wonder no more.

Team	Country	Home riders	%
Groupama - FDJ United	France	23/29	79%
UNO-X Mobility	Norway	21/30	70%
Lotto Intermarché	Belgium	16/30	53%
Movistar	Spain	14/28	50%
Soudal Quick-Step	Belgium	14/30	46%
Picnic Post NL	Netherlands	11/28	39%
Alpecin-Premier Tech	Belgium	11/30	36%
Decathlon CMA CGM	France	9/28	32%
Ineos Grenadiers	Great Britain	7/29	24%
Jayco AlUla	Australia	7/29	24%
Visma Lease a Bike	Netherlands	6/29	20%
EF Education - EasyPost	United States	4/29	13%
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	Germany	4/30	13%
Lidl - Trek	Germany	3/30	10%
XDS Astana	Kazakhstan	2/30	6%
NSN Cycling	Switzerland	1/29	3%
Bahrain Victorious	Bahrain	0/28	0%
UAE Team Emirates XRG	United Arab Emirates	0/30	0%

FDJ top the list with 23/29 French riders. Aside from that they have 2 Kiwis, a Luxemburger, one Swiss, and two Italians. That's positively cosmopolitan compared with Uno-X in second with 21 Norwegian riders out of 30 but all of the other 9 are Danish.

None of this is terribly surprising or, I'm afraid to say, very interesting.

Maybe I'll do a similar analysis for the WWT. Maybe I won't

Not entirely pointless, if you add in points.

UCI points, that is.

Scatterplot of % from home country (or one country?) against UCI points so far this season, updated weekly, with some best fit analysis for any coreelation. Thanks in advance.

You'll also need to correlate with number of riders from country in the peloton / UCI points etc. so that we can find out if Frenchness is inherently bad for a ride/team. (Just to note, two actual brilliant French riders are coming through right now, which might skew things a little...)

 

[Dogtrousers]

Not entirely pointless, if you add in points.

UCI points, that is.

Scatterplot of % from home country (or one country?) against UCI points so far this season, updated weekly, with some best fit analysis for any coreelation. Thanks in advance.

You'll also need to correlate with number of riders from country in the peloton / UCI points etc. so that we can find out if Frenchness is inherently bad for a ride/team. (Just to note, two actual brilliant French riders are coming through right now, which might skew things a little...)

I'm way ahead of you! I did that, well I did a scatter plot of wins so far this season. I should have done UCI points it's true. It was a right mess, so I didn't post it, but very broadly the teams that have more traditional regional loyalty are doing worse. And the rootless teams are doing better, especially UAE. But not Bahrain "Victorious".

May be something to revisit at the end of the season

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I'm way ahead of you! I did that, well I did a scatter plot of wins so far this season. I should have done UCI points it's true. It was a right mess, so I didn't post it, but very broadly the teams that have more traditional regional loyalty are doing worse. And the rootless teams are doing better, especially UAE. But not Bahrain "Victorious".

May be something to revisit at the end of the season

I think Bahrain and UAE will be outliers, but in general I think DEI is probably good for a team, especially if it's French (Decathlon look far, far better than FDJ)

 

[T4tomo]

Euskatel Euskadi always score pretty highly on "home" riders, historically all Basques but still very Basque Spanish centric.

In a nerdy piece of trivia they also have the Van der Tuuk brothers on their roster, who compete for different nations - NL & Poland

 

[Dogtrousers]

Euskatel Euskadi always score pretty highly on "home" riders, historically all Basques but still very Basque Spanish centric.

In a nerdy piece of trivia they also have the Van der Tuuk brothers on their roster, who compete for different nations - NL & Poland

Yes Euskaltel did come to my mind, but they're not WT. They have 15/20 Spanish riders but it's not really possible to tell if they are Basque without more knowledge/research.

And thanks for the nerdy fact. Didn't know that.

 

[T4tomo]

Yes Euskaltel did come to my mind, but they're not WT. They have 15/20 Spanish riders but it's not really possible to tell if they are Basque without more knowledge/research.

And thanks for the nerdy fact. Didn't know that.

you can guess a bit by the surnames - high scrabble scores -> probability of Basque-ness