Stat Attack: Closing the Book on the 2024-2025 Season
Blog #38
The MyWhoosh Championship is over, and we are set to bid adieu to the 2024-2025 cycling esports season with the Sunday Race Club final this weekend.
And what a season it was.
Seriously though. Some crazy sh!% happened this year! Zwift cried uncle in the platform wars; we saw what was in my estimation the best season of all time and the best race of all time; we missed the ending of Stage 1 of Zwift Games for the funniest possible reason; and we ate a whole boatload of ice cream along the way.
All in all, it’s been a fun year for cycling esports. I don’t know if I’d say we are in a better place than we were a year ago though - Zwift taking a step back and the seemingly never-ending trainer and verification issues are ominous clouds casting dark shadows over the future of the sport, at least as a professional enterprise. But hey, we were certainly entertained along the way!
So to wrap things up, I wanted to do a “Stat Attack,” where I quickly go through some of the more impressive numbers from the season.1 Let’s roll out!
1) 97
The number of riders (42 men and 55 women) that, by my count, have qualified for the 2025 UCI World Championship semi-finals. As a reminder, we are continuing to track the qualified riders on the blog, and rely on you all for input. So if we are missing anything, please shoot us a note at info@proecycling.com!2
2) 1,039.9
The number of career PEC points Michael Vink has amassed after winning the MyWhoosh Championship. He’s the eighth rider of all time to pass the completely arbitrary and made up 1,000 point mark, and he is now ranked as the fourth best male rider ever.
We’ve talked before about how Vink is held back in the rankings by the fact that he has never raced on Zwift. Historically, that was just a lot of points to leave on the table each year. So the sport’s shift to MyWhoosh should be beneficial for him, since he and Jason Osborne are in a league of their own on that platform.
3) 8
The number of MyWhoosh Championship stage wins Vink now has across the two editions, the most of any rider.
4) 103.2
The number of PEC points Yunfei Wu has put up this season after securing a spot on the GC podium in the MyWhoosh Championship. Wu doesn’t have the punch that Vink or Osborne do - think of Wu as Jonas and Vink/Osborne as Pogi when they come to the line together - but he is the only rider who proved capable of hanging with the two titans on the lengthy mountain stages last week.
I’d put Wu in there with Neal Fryett, Ruben Dhondt, Maria Holdcroft, and Camilla Ahlberg, who also finished on the MyWhoosh Championship podium, as my five breakout riders of the year.
5) 10
The number of individual wins Ollie Jones now has in his career, after he ripped off wins in each of the first three stages of the MyWhoosh Championship and finished an impressive fourth in GC.
The Mathieu van der Poel of cycling esports is only the third male rider to reach double digit wins in his career, joining Osborne (18) and Vink (16).3
6) ~4,500
The number of PEC points awarded this season to male and female riders, respectively, by far the most all time.4
The reason for this? The sport was growing. Just last year the full slate of professional races consisted of just (1) SRC; (2) Zwift Grand Prix; and (3) Zwift Games.5 This season, Zwift World Series replaced ZGP, but we also added the MyWhoosh Championship and held a World Championship.
Two pro race series on Zwift, two on MyWhoosh, and the UCI World Championship. We were building something, I thought…
7) 20 (or maybe 21)
The number of individual wins Kate McCarthy put up this year, depending on what she does this weekend in SRC. Just stupid stuff. Her wins included the following:
UCI World Championship
Zwift Games (GC and 2 stages)
MyWhoosh Championship (GC and 6 stages)
9 SRC Monthly Finals (and counting)
For context, McCarthy’s 20 wins just this season are two more than the most ever by any other rider in their entire career (Jason Osborne’s 18) and three more than the next closest woman (Kathrin Fuhrer at 17).
McCarthy now has 21 professional wins in her career, and that number is only going to grow. Oh, and by the way, she is now the top-ranked female rider of all time.
8) 10 (again)
Speaking of McCarthy, her SRC win streak is now at 10 if you don’t ding her for skimping out on the SRC that took place on the MyWhoosh Championship rest day. I’m not entirely sure if this is the longest streak of all time, but I’m guessing it is. And I’m curious to see how long it lasts.
9) 4
The number of Watopian Weekly seasons that are now in the books. I feel olddd. Move me down a category with Dustin.
10) 7
The number of professional cycling esports seasons that have now been completed, stretching back to 2018-2019.
Or at least that’s how many we currently have in our database. Stay tuned for more news on that as we try to track down results from earlier years to meet our mission of making the Pro E Cycling site a repository for the history of cycling esports…
That’s it for now! I’m going to try to get back to a once a week, every Tuesday morning cadence now that the chaos of the Summer of MyWhoosh is coming to a close. See you next week 😁
These are pretty heavily focused on MWC, since it’s the most recent race.
Yeah, yeah, this one isn’t actually an impressive number, per say. But cut me some slack, this tracker is hard and I’ve really relied on your help to get it to where it is now!
In case you are wondering, four women have done it. In addition to McCarthy and Fuhrer, discussed further below, they are Lou Bates and Cecilia Hansen.
The exact number isn’t identical between the two because of how we award points based on team results.
There technically was not a World Championship that season because when MyWhoosh got the race they pushed it from the start of the calendar year to the end, skipping a season (as we arbitrarily define it, from September 1 to August 31) in the process.