Best One Nation Team

5-2 to Holwerda, so no need for Twan to feel guilty.
He will join the others on the form.

Spin Doctors

Holwerda

Very close, but Spin Doctors. Sheer diversity of results is so impressive. Also, England has fewer active teams/ranked riders.

Sorry Frank! Last year I was your biggest advocate, but now I vote against you :O Sometimes I dont undertand myself

I vote Holwerda.

just to confirm my vote: Holwerda

Holwerda

Tough one, but I'll vote Holwerda.

Spin Doctors over Holwerda for me (but it's close!)

Still Sputnik over both of them in my humble opinion

Name: Coulter
Team: Willunga Hill
Country: New Zealand
Number of ranked riders in Country: 36
Number of active teams in Country: 3
OCM Tour Rank: 8th
OCM Tour Points: 3367
8 wins (5 Div1, 3 Div 2)
16 other results, including 2nd in Volta ao Porto GC, 4th in Critérium La Provence, 5th in Vejle-København, 7th in Vuelta de los Castillos (7 Div1, 7 Div2, 1 Div2.1, 1 ND)

Name: Jime
Team: Time Indaiatuba
Country: Brazil
Number of ranked riders in Country: 43
Number of active teams in Country: 7
OCM Tour Rank: 50th
OCM Tour Points: 1845
16 wins, including Kangaroo Tour GC and YC, Perm Tour SC and Norway Tour SC (14 Div3, 1 Div4, 1 U23) ( 1 of the wins is U23, does that count? )
7 other results, including 6th in Helsinki GP Mini (3 Div2, 1 Div 2.1, 3 Div3)

Name: Goege
Team: Goege Team
Country: Namibia
Number of ranked riders in Country: 9
Number of active teams in Country: 1
OCM Tour Rank: 81st
OCM Tour Points: 1466
3 wins, including Norway Tour GC and Vuelta a Valparaìso YC (1 Div2, 2 Div3)
12 other results, including 2nd in Vuelta a Valparaìso GC (5 Div2, 1 Div 2.1, 6 Div3)


VOTE:

Name: Frank Holwerda
Team: Holwerda Cycling
Country: Netherlands
Number of ranked riders in Country: 352
Number of active teams in Country: 67
OCM Tour Rank: 15th
OCM Tour Points: 3016
7 wins, including 1. Nederlandse Tour GC (3 Div1, 4 Div1.1)
10 other results, including 2nd in Germany Tour YC 4th in Vuelta de los Castillos GC and 7th in Germany Tour GC, 4th in (7 Div1, 2 Div1.1, 1 Div1.2)

Name: Oli
Team: Spin Doctors
Country: England
Number of ranked riders in Country: 202
Number of active teams in Country: 35
OCM Tour Rank: 37th
OCM Tour Points: 2166
9 wins, including Critérium La Provence and Cymru Taith GC (5 Div1, 4 Div2)
9 other results, including 2nd in Coppa della Famiglia del Don, 3rd in Essex Tour, 3rd in Zürich-Bern-Zürich, 3rd in Vuelta de los Castillos SC, 5th in Germany Tour GC, 5th in Alpe d`Huez Classic and 6th in Vuelta de los Castillos (7 Div1, 2 Div2)



OUT (for comparison)

Name: Tony James
Team: Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Country: Burkina Faso
Number of ranked riders in Country: 13
Number of active teams in Country: 2
OCM Tour Rank: 97th
OCM Tour Points: 1346
4 wins, including Essex Tour YC and Cymru Taith YC (1 Div1, 1 Div2, 2 Div3)
6 other results, including 3rd in Cymru Taith and 6th in Essex Tour (1 Div1, 2 Div2, 3 Div 3) ( my OCM-OCD loves this )

Hey,

I love this category but it's one of the most difficult ones to do. If the game had twice the amount of managers, I'd like to see a double award - one for nations with <10 or <20 pages of riders, and one for nations with more riders. Or perhaps a nice formula that indexes results/points by division, available riders and team age - with a bonus for Tours/Classics. Honestly no idea how to compare winning so much with a Dutch team in higher divs to winning Edmonton and Montelbano with Czechs. Both are solid achievements. But I digress...

One thing I'd like to add is that countries could better be judged by rider amount than by active teams in my opinion. For example: Universal Soup is the only Vietnamese team, but their presence has generated 5 pages of riders to select for their single nation team. There are 2 teams from Burkina Faso, but they have only 3 pages of riders to choose from. Perhaps that's something to consider in the future.

In general I agree with the nominations below - including not selecting Velosipedska. I think I could have made a shortlist of 5, but there's arguments to be made for the others as well, and I'd like to have an even better season in the future!
I'd only like to note that I'd reconsider Sigue Sigue Sputnik, probably over Spin Doctors at this stage. Sputnik's rider pool is tiny, but he's up there in high divisions with larger countries. Spin Doctors won it last year, but had 2 fewer results and 1 instead of 3 jerseys. I think a former winner should really excel to win this niche category again.

At any rate, solid list - and I think you've got all teams that deserve to be considered here!

-KrMees-

Thanks for the support people. I do think I'm a contender in this -- Jime's amazing season is built around one rider in the main, mine is absolutely a team effort. I would vote Holwerda over Spin Doctors for the remaining spot.

Thanks Don. Planning-wise it seems oke to do the right formatting on Monday, which is what I will do.

Agreed on that suggestion!

Suggestion:
Willunga, Jime and Goege in, with Spin Doctors vs Holwerda in the vote. That way we also make sure the whole spectrum of small to large countries is present.

Wow, tough call.

I think that Jime and Coulter should be in for sure.

The rest I see as pretty close, mostly agree with your evaluations Twan.

I mostly agree, in this case I would put Willunga in the vote and Universal Soup not, because Universal Soup dropped down and didn't get the results against the competition they faced last season. And for a New Zealand only team to be 8th, that has to be enough even with the lack of big wins.

Let me start this one with a shortlist, so we can get the discussion started They are in the order I'd put them in. These guys seriously had a good season so it will be difficult again!

Time Indaiatuba seems certain. Brasil is a pretty tiny nation and he won basically everything he rode, including Norway SC, Perm SC, and Kangaroo GC and YC.

Holwerda is the second highest placed team and won Nederlandse. I'd put him in.

Spin Doctors also solid in division 1, with a win in Cymru T. and Criterium La Provence. Also in for me.

Goege is from a 1 team country, ranked 81st, won Norway GC and Valparaiso YC. Is it enough? Probably yes/vote.

Universal Soup, also a 1 team country, ranked quite a bit lower at 192. Did win Oryx GC and SC (and dominated there) and RoTM GC. In the vote.

Velosipedska is still new-ish, 2 team-country, won Monte Rosa GC and RoTM YC, ranked #146. Is it enough? Probably no.

Willunga had an awesome season at #8 in the ranking now, but no classic or tour wins... Hurts me, because it seems pretty amazing to get so high with only a tiny nation (3 active teams) to get your riders from.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik is from a 2 team country, but 'only' won 2 YC. Not enough if you ask me.

CyclingClubChomutov has had a great season, but Czeck is a somewhat larger country (9 teams). He did win Edmonton and Giro del Montelbano though.

Arxhang... has done good, but has been better in the past.

Shoot!

Rules: Team can only have had riders from 1 nation only during the entire season.

The format for this category:

Name:
Team:
Country:
Number of ranked riders in Country:
Number of active teams in Country:
OCM Tour Rank:
OCM Tour Points:
wins, including  mention classic and tour wins, do not mention stages (Divisions in which races were won)
other results, including mention classic and tour results, do not mention stages (Divisions in which results were achieved)

Example:

Name: John Doe
Team: Invisible Riders
Country: Hordaland
Number of ranked riders in Country: 15
Number of active teams in Country: 1
OCM Tour Rank: 135th
OCM Tour Points: 1000
3 wins, including Tour of Hawaii, and Kangaroo GC (1 Div2, 2 Div3)
8 other results, including 7th place Mito-Tokyo (1 Div1.1, 2 Div2, 5 Div3)