Cykelskalle is a Fantasy Pro Cycling League, inspired by the Podium Cafe Virtual Directeur Sportif competition, May You Rest in Peace.
This is a game about Professional Bike Racing, Men or Women. Your goal is to assemble a team at the beginning of the racing season. Spend your limited budget on riders, then watch them collect points by their real results over the year. Winner is, surprise, the team with the most point.
I really enjoyed having a fun game where you assemble your team of favorites at the beginning of the season and then watch races with the added benefit that you can root for your riders.
Pro Tip: Pick riders you don’t particularly like for team - that way you can still be happy when the one you like wins, but if another one wins, you at least get the joy of having cashed in a few points for your team!
Unfortunately with the end of the Podium Cafe, the VDS competition also went defunct. Read CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FSA DIRECTEUR SPORTIF WINNERS! about the last season, 2024.
I started to really value the season spanning part of the whole competition. Spend January and February researching and pick your riders, who are the most promising neos, who might stage a comeback in a new team, and then pick them, hoping to find the cheapest rider no one know about, who is blowing the competition out of the water in the coming season. Hope that the ones you picked don’t retire or get sick or injuries, …
Other fantasy cycling competitions are for specific major races, you already know who’s in, who’s out, who’s having a great season. Also, I suspect that they are heavily maximising clicks. No such thing here. Not money’s being made.
And, if you don’t like or trust me, grab the source, pitch in, or just launch your own competition!
Umm, yeah. I wanted to write my own. After all, how hard can it be?