The drop

When to fall down the divisions to grab the most trophies · worked out from your own points · as of S79 d15

The short answer

Score your last points on S79 d41, then stop scoring.

If you score like you did last season until then, any stop day from S79 d42 – S79 d47 gives the same 8 trophy shots; S79 d42 gives up the fewest points. The window moves with your results, so check this page again before you stop. It is rebuilt every update.

8Trophy shotsby S80 d90
S79 d60First signup
2,024Points given up972 back if you win them all
Div 5Division by S80 d90

Stop on that day and your old points drain away at the right speed: you are in the right division on the day each of these signups opens. "To spare" is how many points you could gain or lose before you'd be in the wrong division that day.

TrophyDivSignup opensRaceHaul if wonYour total that dayTo spareHow you get in
Classic Oslo4 S79 d60S79 d68 90852 8 in division 4 on signup day
Baltimore Invitational4 S79 d66S79 d74 90812 48 in division 4 on signup day
La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (cup)4 S79 d90S80 d8 175766 94 in division 4 on signup day
Critérium la Grasse4 S80 d32S80 d40 100613 0 in division 4 on signup day
Juberri - Pas de la Casa5 S80 d51S80 d59 85455 2 in division 5 on signup day
Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (cup)5 S80 d63S80 d71 167540 72 in division 5 on signup day
Classico di Siracusa5 S80 d90S81 d8 90527 74 in division 5 on signup day
La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (cup)4 S80 d90S81 d8 175527 588 wildcard from last edition
Watch Classic Oslo (8 to spare), Baltimore Invitational (48 to spare), Critérium la Grasse (0 to spare), Juberri - Pas de la Casa (2 to spare): one result either way decides it. Check your total the day before signup opens.
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S79 d15S80 d90

If your season goes differently: score 20% more than last season before you stop and the best window is S79 d36 – S79 d41 (7 shots); score 20% less and it is S79 d42 – S79 d47 (10 shots).

For comparison, stopping today gives 7 trophy shots for 2,500 points given up by the same date.

How it works

  1. Your division is your last 90 days of points. Points older than 90 days drop off the ranking. Score nothing and your total drains away as last season's results pass 90 days. You hold 1,210 today, right on the division-2/3 line (division 2 starts at about 1,308).
  2. You sign up at the division you are in on signup day. Signup opens 8 days before a race, and the race's division has to be yours. So the trick is to be in the right division on that day, not on race day.
  3. Winning lifts you back up. A low-division classic is worth about 65–100 points to the winning team, a cup 100–270. Each win pushes you up and can shut you out of the next one, so the plan picks the order that keeps the most doors open.
  4. "Stop scoring" does not mean stop racing. Keep your riders' RS up by racing your own division without finishing in the points, the way the teams on the Yoyos page do it.

Division floors used here (lowest 90-day total in each division, last season's median): Div 2 ≥ 1,308 · Div 3 ≥ 861 · Div 4 ≥ 613 · Div 5 ≥ 453 · Div 6 ≥ 230 · Div 7 ≥ 50.

Every stop day, side by side

The day you stop scoring decides everything that follows. Every row is counted up to the same date (S80 d90), so they compare fairly. Same answer on consecutive days is one row.

Stop scoringShotsPts given upTrophies
S79 d15 – S79 d29 72,412 Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S79), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S79), Budapest Meeting Point (S80), Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (S80), Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81)
S79 d30 – S79 d31 62,312 Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S79), Classico di Siracusa (S80), Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81)
S79 d32 – S79 d35 52,282 Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S79), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81)
S79 d36 – S79 d41 72,182 Classic Oslo (S79), Baltimore Invitational (S79), Orel-Kursk Classic (S79), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S80), Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S81)
S79 d42 – S79 d47 82,024 Classic Oslo (S79), Baltimore Invitational (S79), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S80), Critérium la Grasse (S80), Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S81)
S79 d48 – S79 d59 51,766 La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S81)
S79 d60 – S79 d64 21,590 Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80)
S79 d65 41,646 Critérium la Grasse (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81)
S79 d66 – S79 d70 21,550 Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80)
S79 d71 – S79 d81 1614 Critérium la Grasse (S80)
S79 d82 – S80 d11 00 —
S80 d12 21,024 Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80)
S80 d13 – S80 d14 31,170 Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81)

Who you'd be racing

Every division 3–8 trophy win in our results over the last three seasons, sorted by the division the winning team spent most of the 30–120 days before in. Read across a row to see where that division's trophy winners usually race.

Trophy divWinsFrom lower divsUsually that div1 div above2 above3+ aboveNo record
318377100
415572100
59026100
66131010
79013230
82000110

Division 8 is thin: Zell am See and Giro di Vicenza results are not in our archive.

15 of 18 division-3 trophy wins went to teams that usually sit in division 3 or higher, which is your level, so dropping one division gives you no edge. Your best finish in a division 3–8 trophy race in three seasons is 18th. Division 4 is different: only 3 of 15 winners came down from a higher division, so the field there is mostly teams that usually race in division 4 or lower, ranked well below you. From division 5 to 7, 17 of 24 winners dropped in from above, so you would be racing other droppers. You still have to beat them on the road. Treat every row as a real shot, not a sure thing.

Why division 3 is left out: it is a judgement call. In division 3 you would be racing teams at your own level rather than below it. If you count those trophies anyway and win them, their points slow your fall, and the best plan becomes 13 shots from S79 d15 – S79 d21.

The cup trick: wildcards

Win a cup (or finish top 3 on GC) and that rider holds a wildcard for the next edition. It keeps a place for you for the first 3 days of signup, and you can use it even when ranked up to 25% better than the cup allows (50 places at most). The wildcard belongs to the rider and goes wherever the rider goes if sold. In practice that is about one division higher, so a cup you win once can be entered again the next season without dropping as far:

CupDivSignupWildcard up to world rankThat is a total of at most
La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle4d90 (season before) 1351,115 pts
Tian-Shen Stone City Cup5d63 210736 pts
Cesko-Slovensky Pohar6d18 290550 pts
Cup of the Four Rivers7d58 390319 pts
Design av Småland Cup8d37 50090 pts

One-day classics have no wildcards. For those you have to be in the division on signup day.

The trophy calendar

Every trophy from division 3 to 8. The calendar is the same every season. Hauls are the median points the winning team took out of each race over the last three seasons (stages and GC for a cup).

DivTrophySignupRaceHaul
3Copa de la Historia de los Andes (cup) d87 (season before)d5–6210
3Turnai - Turnai d21d29120
3Tour of Hawaii d29d37120
3Rotterdam Classic d39d47120
3Zyte GP d50d58100
3VCK Classic d61d69100
4La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (cup) d90 (season before)d8–10175
4Critérium la Grasse d32d40100
4Classic Oslo d60d6890
4Baltimore Invitational d66d7490
4Orel-Kursk Classic d70d78100
5Classico di Siracusa d90 (season before)d890
5Juberri - Pas de la Casa d51d5985
5Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (cup) d63d71–72167
6Budapest Meeting Point d2d1098
6Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (cup) d18d26–28130
6Bali Classic d76d8498
7Brebes - Brebes d5d1377
7Uttendorf - Matrei in Osttirol d48d5665
7Cup of the Four Rivers (cup) d58d66–68270
8Zell am See d12d2077
8Design av Småland Cup (cup) d37d45–4799
8Giro di Vicenza d75d8377

Division 9 has three more (Gevelsberg GP, Draguignan, Entrecasteaux GP), but they need a world rank past 670 and the ranking stops at about 590 teams, so they are left out.

The fine print

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