ANALYSIS | How cycling fans rate 2023 World Tour teams from 1-10
CyclingMonday, 01 January 2024 at 22:00
Throughout the month of December, we have revealed the personal ratings from 1 to 10 of all World Tour teams from all writers of CyclingUpToDate, CiclismoAlDia and CiclismoAtual. Now, we analyze how our readers' votes compare.
9 writers have given their opinion on all World Tour teams throughout the 2023 season and given a personal rating of 1 to 10. The average was calculated and attributed to each team. Now, we calculate the averages of all votes cast by our readers and analyze the differences.
AG2R Citroën Team (34 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 3.56
Fans' rating: 4.17
Alpecin-Deceuninck (37 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 9.53
Fans' rating: 9.18
Astana Qazaqstan Team (43 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 2.44
Fans' rating: 3.20
Bahrain - Victorious (21 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 7.39
Fans' rating: 7.21
BORA - hansgrohe (32 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 6.83
Fans' rating: 6.65
Cofidis (15 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 6.11
Fans' rating: 6.6
EF Education-EasyPost (34 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 5.28
Fans' rating: 5.58
Groupama-FDJ (13 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 4.67
Fans' rating: 4.76
INEOS Grenadiers (46 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 6.56
Fans' rating: 6.32
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty (9 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 5.06
Fans' rating: 5.22
Jumbo-Visma (55 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 9.94
Fans' rating: 9.65
Lidl-Trek (19 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 7.11
Fans' rating: 7.47
Movistar Team (25 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 3.94
Fans' rating: 4
Soudal - Quick-Step (20 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 7.17
Fans' rating: 7.75
Team Arkéa Samsic (14 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 2.11
Fans' rating: 2.92
Team DSM-Firmenich (13 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 5
Fans' rating: 4.46
Team Jayco AlUla (19 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 6.06
Fans' rating: 5.73
UAE Team Emirates (28 votes)
CyclingUpToDate rating: 9.06
Fans' rating: 8.92
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Ranking (from highest to lowest) the difference between the writers and the fans' ratings:
0.81 - Team Arkéa Samsic
0.76 - Astana Qazaqstan Team
0.71 - AG2R Citroën Team
0.58 - Soudal - Quick-Step
0.49 - Cofidis
0.36 - Lidl - Trek
0.35 - Alpecin-Deceuninck
0.3 - EF Education-EasyPost
0.16 - Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0.09 - Groupama-FDJ
0.06 - Movistar Team
-0.14 - UAE Team Emirates
-0.18 - Bahrain - Victorious
-0.18 - BORA - hansgrohe
-0.23 - INEOS Grenadiers
-0.29 - Jumbo-Visma
-0.33 - Team Jayco AlUla
-0.44 - Team DSM - Firmenich
The biggest difference is found in the two teams that have been ranked the lowest, Arkéa Samsic and Astana Qazaqstan Team. The votes here were quite more positive from the fans than the riders. Outside of those two however two clear teams pop out that have been seen on a more positive light by readers which were AG2R Citroën Team and Soudal - Quick-Step.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, Team DSM-Firmenich was the team that had the biggest negative difference when it came to analyzing the votes from the readers. Only 7 out of 18 teams had a negative difference actually, a minority. DSM was followed by Team Jayco AlUla, and then Jumbo-Visma where the extremely high rating from the writers was not matched as positively.
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