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The Draft Is Set
No hand-picking. A seeded random number generator set the draft order and an auto-drafter built every squad by specialty — a GC leader, a sprinter and a climber first, then best available.
How it worked. From the roughly 184 starters, a curated pool of eighty draftable riders — the ones with a realistic shot at points — was ranked and split into four scoring tiers. A fixed seed of 2026 set a random draft order, then a ten-round snake ran (the order reverses each round). The first three rounds are specialty rounds: every squad drafts a GC leader, then a sprinter, then a climber, so everyone lands a marquee name in each discipline. The remaining seven rounds are best-available. Same seed, same draft, every time.
Draft order: Brian → Platt → Brett → Hannigan → Kirk → Dave → Kennedy → Kingsley.
Scoring rewards the brave: stage points and jersey-days are flat, but the big end-of-Tour bonuses are multiplied by rider tier (T1 ×1.0 up to T4 ×2.0). A domestique who steals a stage or sneaks into the top ten pays out double. Depth and daring both count.
Squad Leaders · GC · Sprint · Climber
HanniganGC Primoz Roglic · Spr Jonathan Milan · Clm Michael Woods
KingsleyGC Paul Seixas · Spr Mads Pedersen · Clm Valentin Paret-Peintre
KennedyGC Florian Lipowitz · Spr Tim Merlier · Clm Guillaume Martin
BrettGC Remco Evenepoel · Spr Biniam Girmay · Clm Neilson Powless
DaveGC Isaac del Toro · Spr Jasper Philipsen · Clm Michael Storer
KirkGC Joao Almeida · Spr Wout van Aert · Clm Lenny Martinez
BrianGC Tadej Pogacar · Spr Bryan Coquard · Clm Felix Gall
PlattGC Jonas Vingegaard · Spr Dylan Groenewegen · Clm Santiago Buitrago
The Full Lottery
Hannigan
Primoz Roglic T2Jonathan Milan T2Ben Healy T2Michael Woods T3David Gaudu T3Fabio Jakobsen T3Tiesj Benoot T4Mauro Schmid T4Ben Tulett T4Geoffrey Soupe T4
Kingsley
Mads Pedersen T1Mathieu van der Poel T1Paul Seixas T2Valentin Paret-Peintre T3Julian Alaphilippe T3Marc Hirschi T3Stefan Kung T4Michal Kwiatkowski T4Corbin Strong T4Clement Champoussin T4
Kennedy
Tim Merlier T1Florian Lipowitz T2Carlos Rodriguez T2Guillaume Martin T3Simon Yates T3Quinn Simmons T3Matteo Trentin T4Danny van Poppel T4Kaden Groves T4Harold Tejada T4
Brett
Remco Evenepoel T1Biniam Girmay T2Tom Pidcock T2Neilson Powless T3Ben O'Connor T3Phil Bauhaus T3Adam Yates T4Ivan Romeo T4Bart Lemmen T4Sam Watson T4
Dave
Jasper Philipsen T1Isaac del Toro T2Juan Ayuso T2Michael Storer T3Enric Mas T3Jhonatan Narvaez T3Pavel Sivakov T4Fred Wright T4Pascal Ackermann T4Luke Plapp T4
Kirk
Wout van Aert T1Joao Almeida T2Matteo Jorgenson T2Lenny Martinez T3Romain Gregoire T3Arnaud De Lie T3Nils Politt T4Victor Campenaerts T4Emanuel Buchmann T4Warren Barguil T4
Brian
Tadej Pogacar T1Oscar Onley T2Mattias Skjelmose T2Bryan Coquard T3Felix Gall T3Alexander Kristoff T3Sepp Kuss T4Bruno Armirail T4Tobias H. Johannessen T4Alexey Lutsenko T4
Platt
Jonas Vingegaard T1Dylan Groenewegen T2Kevin Vauquelin T2Santiago Buitrago T3Richard Carapaz T3Michael Matthews T3Tim Wellens T4Aurelien Paret-Peintre T4Jonas Abrahamsen T4Andrea Bagioli T4