Dries van Gestel

Dries van Gestel is a professional bike-rider from Belgium. Dries van Gestel is contracted at TotalEnergies and was born on September 30 1994. Dries van Gestel weighs 71 kg and is 187 cm long. More info on Dries van Gestel will be avaialbe soon. Please take look at the skills of Dries van Gestel at the rider-card at this page, those will be updated daily.

Current scores of Dries van Gestel

We keep track of all indicator-scores of Dries van Gestel (and all other pro-riders) based on results in UCI-races in the past 3 years. Stats are updated every day in order to provide up-to-date scores. It gives you the possibility to check current rider-specialties of all riders. Here you can find the scores of Dries van Gestel.

• Dries van Gestel has an average strength of 87 points, meaning the rider is one of the best cyclists in the world.
• van Gestel scores 90 points on riding on cobbles, meaning the rider is one of the best cobbled-specialists.
• Dries van Gestel scores 71 points on hills.
• van Gestel gets 28 points on mountains.
• Dries van Gestel has 33 points on riding General Classifications.
• van Gestel is ranked at 20 points in time trial.
• Dries van Gestel scores 87 points on sprinting, meaning the rider belongs to the best sprinters in the pro-peloton.
• van Gestel gets 83 points on riding on the flat.
• Dries van Gestel indicates 76 points on doing a leadout.
• van Gestel gained 91 points on riding one-day races, which makes the rider one of the best one-day specialists of the peloton.
• Dries van Gestel has 20 points on racing prologues.
• van Gestel gets a score of 20 points on riding short time-trials.
• Dries van Gestel scores 20 points on riding long time-trials.

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Computer-model of CyclingOracle.com

Arjan Zoer is the mastermind behind the smart computer-algorithm. Arjan developed the model and is working on improvements of the model on a daily basis. We will not share the depths of the model publically, but can give some insight in how it works. The model is based on results of riders in the past 3 seasons in which more recent results have a larger impact on the outcome. The model runs for every male and female rider in all UCI-races. That’s a lot of data. The result of race, combined with the profile, quality of the startlist and the UCI-classification of the race, determines on which skills a rider gets ‘points’. Riders score points between 20 and 100 on 13 different skills (categories), being: spring, flat, mountain, hills, time-trial, ITT-long, ITT- short, prologue, cobbles, leadout, GC, one-day races and stage-races. In addition, a rider gets points for his current shape (good results in recent races).

Some examples:

• A rider wins a bunch sprint in Tour de Rwanda. He gets points awarded for ‘flat’ and ‘sprint’, but these points will make less of a difference compared to a bunch sprint-victory in Tour de France given the UCI-classification of the race (2.1) and weak field of participants.
• A rider wins a bunch sprint in Giro d’Italia and his teammates get rewarded points for ‘leadout. If teammates of a sprinter have a lot of leadout-points, the computer lifts the chances of a sprinter to win a flat race which is likely to result in a bunch sprint. Team-quality is part of the model.
• A rider solos to victory in Ronde van Vlaanderen: the rider gets rewarded a mix of points on skills like ‘cobbles’, ‘hills’, ‘one-day races’ and ‘time-trial’.
• A rider wins the sprint of a small-group at a summit-finish of Alpe d’Huez. He gets points for ‘mountain’, but also for ‘sprint’ and ‘stage-races’. Moreover, these points will weigh heavily on a rider’s shape or form in order to predict future results in the same race better.

All these skills will be used to predicted a cycling-race. Depending on the profile and field of participants, the computer predicts the most likely winner. The probability a certain rider will win the race is called ‘Expected Win’.

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