Maikel Zijlaard

Maikel Zijlaard is a professional bike-rider from Netherlands. Maikel Zijlaard is contracted at Tudor Pro Cycling Team and was born on June 1 1999. Maikel Zijlaard weighs 73 kg and is 189 cm long. More info on Maikel Zijlaard will be avaialbe soon. Please take look at the skills of Maikel Zijlaard at the rider-card at this page, those will be updated daily.

Current scores of Maikel Zijlaard

We keep track of all indicator-scores of Maikel Zijlaard (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 Maikel Zijlaard.

• Maikel Zijlaard has an average strength of 66 points.
• Zijlaard scores 55 points on riding on cobbles.
• Maikel Zijlaard scores 44 points on hills.
• Zijlaard gets 25 points on mountains.
• Maikel Zijlaard has 30 points on riding General Classifications.
• Zijlaard is ranked at 37 points in time trial.
• Maikel Zijlaard scores 69 points on sprinting.
• Zijlaard gets 66 points on riding on the flat.
• Maikel Zijlaard indicates 94 points on doing a leadout, meaning the rider belongs to the best leadout-specialists.
• Zijlaard gained 65 points on riding one-day races.
• Maikel Zijlaard has 94 points on racing prologues, meaning the rider is specialized at riding prologues.
• Zijlaard gets a score of 53 points on riding short time-trials.
• Maikel Zijlaard scores 27 points on riding long time-trials.

About CyclingOracle.com

CyclingOracle.com is created by six cycling-addicts who found each other in their shared passion for cycling. Tom Nederend (@TomNederend), Arjan Zoer (@ZoerCyclingStat), Daniël Herbers (@StatsOnCycling), Thomas Zwetsloot (@zwetmas), Fleur Kok (@fleurrkok) and Stef van Zon (@stefvanzon) invest a lot of their free time in making content for the website and developing the computer algorithm predicting professional cycling races.

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’.

How to find CyclingOracle.com

WielerOrakel.nl can be found at Twitter, Instagram and YouTube named @wielerorakel. Further the ‘WielerOrakel podcast’ is our most important media outlet, you can listen to us in your favourite podcast-app. In the WielerOrakel podcast, cycling-addicts Tom and Thomas rejoice about the upcoming cycling races. They will be joined by several others, like data-mastermind Arjan Zoer, stat-expert Daniël and other guests from the cycling community. They elaborate on and discuss the predictions by the computer model.

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