Simone Velasco

Simone Velasco is a professional bike-rider from Italy. Simone Velasco is contracted at XDS Astana Team and was born on December 2 1995. Simone Velasco weighs 59 kg and is 170 cm long. More info on Simone Velasco will be avaialbe soon. Please take look at the skills of Simone Velasco at the rider-card at this page, those will be updated daily.

Current scores of Simone Velasco

We keep track of all indicator-scores of Simone Velasco (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 Simone Velasco.

• Simone Velasco has an average strength of 81 points.
• Velasco scores 33 points on riding on cobbles.
• Simone Velasco scores 90 points on hills, meaning the rider is one of the best hill-specialists.
• Velasco gets 54 points on mountains.
• Simone Velasco has 57 points on riding General Classifications.
• Velasco is ranked at 42 points in time trial.
• Simone Velasco scores 58 points on sprinting.
• Velasco gets 65 points on riding on the flat.
• Simone Velasco indicates 51 points on doing a leadout.
• Velasco gained 91 points on riding one-day races, which makes the rider one of the best one-day specialists of the peloton.
• Simone Velasco has 26 points on racing prologues.
• Velasco gets a score of 31 points on riding short time-trials.
• Simone Velasco scores 40 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’.

How to find CyclingOracle

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In the WielerOrakel Podcast, cycling fanatics Tom and Thomas get excited about the races, joined by guest appearances from data brain Arjan and stats wizard Daniël, as they provide context to the computer’s predictions.

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