Mathieu van der Poel

Mathieu van der Poel is a professional bike-rider from Netherlands. Mathieu van der Poel is contracted at Alpecin-Deceuninck and was born on January 19 1995. Mathieu van der Poel weighs 75 kg and is 184 cm long. More info on Mathieu van der Poel will be avaialbe soon. Please take look at the skills of Mathieu van der Poel at the rider-card at this page, those will be updated daily.

Current scores of Mathieu van der Poel

We keep track of all indicator-scores of Mathieu van der Poel (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 Mathieu van der Poel.

• Mathieu van der Poel has an average strength of 96 points, meaning the rider is one of the best cyclists in the world.
• van der Poel scores 99 points on riding on cobbles, meaning the rider is one of the best cobbled-specialists.
• Mathieu van der Poel scores 93 points on hills, meaning the rider is one of the best hill-specialists.
• van der Poel gets 38 points on mountains.
• Mathieu van der Poel has 53 points on riding General Classifications.
• van der Poel is ranked at 58 points in time trial.
• Mathieu van der Poel scores 85 points on sprinting.
• van der Poel gets 96 points on riding on the flat, meaning the rider is one of the best flat-specialists.
• Mathieu van der Poel indicates 98 points on doing a leadout, meaning the rider belongs to the best leadout-specialists.
• van der Poel gained 98 points on riding one-day races, which makes the rider one of the best one-day specialists of the peloton.
• Mathieu van der Poel has 59 points on racing prologues.
• van der Poel gets a score of 85 points on riding short time-trials.
• Mathieu van der Poel scores 34 points on riding long time-trials, meaning the rider is one of the best riders at time-trials over a longer distance.

About CyclingOracle

CyclingOracle 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

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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