ALEX DOWSETT OPENS UP ABOUT BENJI & LANTERNE ROUGE | RDMN CLIPS

1.Can Lead-Out Men Be Moneyballed?

Have we got to the point where you know we mentioned data driven do we have data on I know we've obviously power numbers and stuff but Power numbers only tell a part of the story you know you could be sitting out in the wind putting out the biggest power out of everyone in the last 2K of a race that's [ __ ] all used to anyone what does the data metrics look like for assessing what a good lead out rer looks like hey there's there's a consistency it's like okay there's x amount of laid outs how often is um you know like moroff and Rick's arble they are always there every single somehow in all the melee all the chaos they are there and I think that's your data that's your like if there's 10 yeah a percentage of lead outs and those two boys like because half the job is just being there for your Sprinter like that's half the job done the next half is like executing the lead out and have they started money money balling that with going well Rick zel of Sprint stages is in the final 80% of the time do they have stats on this type stuff inside teams now that I don't know certainly not in not in teams I rode for I mean obvious I were not interested in the Sprint um katusa and Israel did not have uh yeah they they they were interested in the Sprint up to yeah they were interested in Sprint but not to that level not they W didn't have the infrastructure to go into that level of detail um but it could be done yeah I it would be really cool like I'm I'm thinking back to some of the nerdy football games I played as a kid and you had like you know your Beckham statistical Chan he's going to beat the first man every with a corner and you know you derive people's value from this ability to pull out these crazy stats yeah but maybe maybe you could do it on live live positioning if he had a way of getting like real time positioning it's like okay 50k to go zel is 80th 40K to go arble is generally 40th and then with under the 5K to go Banner like Rick zal consistently is inside the top 25 and then that slowly moving forward until it's go time Benji at Lantern Rouge is your man for this I don't know where he pulls these stats from sat there just watching tracking everyone's real time position perhaps yeah I chat to that kid and it's phenomenal like he talks like somebody who's being in the middle of a lead out train and a grand tour I'm like how does he know this how does he know you can move through a gap open the Gap versus moving through a gap and close a gap like there are experiences that need to have been lived but he somehow seems to know this stuff it's he learned from computer games yeah it's in those I think those time for people there's a place for Cy is just odd isn't it there's so many people in jobs that they should not be qualified are not qualified the jobs that they're in that they should not be qualified to do um but they're in because they're such like cycling fans cycling Fanatics and you the majority of this Pro cycling staff are either cycling fans or um failed cyclists um failed in wanted to be a professional cyclist next best thing is mechanics one your and everything I didn't want to say I don't want to say um and uh yeah but then you know you get someone like Benji who's like knows the knows that level of detail of Sprint far better than any like lead out man any Sprinter um that's important that's important if you enjoyed this little clip from the podcast you can check out full episodes of the podcast on any podcast platform Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts also you can click up here for another video that I know you're going to love and don't forget to subscribe to the channel see you next day