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At the start of each year a lot of points shift from team to team. Which teams landed high scoring riders and what teams have seen points leave their team? We have listed the WorldTour teams by the sum of PCS points per rider, compared to the riders on the 2021 roster for that team. For example, Team UAE contracted 8 riders, amongs who João Almeida (1664 points) and Pascal Ackermann (748 points) of in total 3389 points. They saw 9 riders leaving the team, worth in total 1717 points. The surplus is 1672 points, making them also the team with the highest surplus.

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Table 1. Transfer surplus overview for WorldTour teams

#	Team	Surplus	Points previous year	Points this year
1	UAE-Team Emirates	▲1672	11335	13007
2	EF Education - Nippo	▲1531	5420	6951
3	Team Jumbo-Visma	▲1490	11924	13414
4	BORA - hansgrohe	▲1420	7967	9387
5	Groupama - FDJ	▲726	6305	7031
6	Cofidis	▲621	5849	6470
7	Trek - Segafredo	▲417	6995	7412
8	Movistar Team	▼16	6646	6630
9	Bahrain - Victorious	▼53	9651	9598
10	AG2R Citroën Team	▼135	6818	6683
11	INEOS Grenadiers	▼230	12859	12629
12	Israel Start-Up Nation	▼282	6849	6567
13	Team BikeExchange Jayco	▼343	5248	4905
14	Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux	▼509	5699	5190
15	Lotto Soudal	▼749	4592	3843
16	Team DSM	▼1127	5051	3924
17	Astana Qazaqstan Team	▼1393	6298	4905
18	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team	▼2324	15633	13309

We see UAE-Team Emirates at the top of the list where Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team is at the bottom. This also happens to be the teams where top rider João Almeida made a transfer this year. We list the teams with a positive or negative surplus above 1000 in more detail.

Top surplus transfer teams

Four teams have done transfers with a surplus over 1000 points. Besides UAE these are EF-Education Nippo, Jumbo-Visma and Bora-Hansgrohe.

Table 2. Transfer points surplus UAE Team Emirates

#	Rider	In/out	Points
1	ALMEIDA João	in	1664
2	ACKERMANN Pascal	in	748
3	BENNETT George	in	326
4	SOLER Marc	in	286
5	HODEG Álvaro José	in	284
6	SUTER Joel	in	47
7	BRUNEL Alexys	in	34
8	GROß Felix	in	0
9	MUÑOZ Cristian Camilo	out	-13
10	MARCATO Marco	out	-14
11	RIABUSHENKO Alexandr	out	-63
12	RICHEZE Maximiliano	out	-67
13	CONTI Valerio	out	-130
14	DOMBROWSKI Joe	out	-177
15	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	out	-242
16	DE LA CRUZ David	out	-420
17	KRISTOFF Alexander	out	-591
			1672

Table 3. Transfer surplus EF-Education Nippo

#	Rider	In/out	Points
1	CHAVES Esteban	in	701
2	EIKING Odd Christian	in	443
3	PADUN Mark	in	279
4	KUDUS Merhawi	in	258
5	SHAW James	in	186
6	VAN DEN BERG Marijn	in	113
7	QUINN Sean	in	91
8	DOULL Owain	in	68
9	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	in	58
10	STEINHAUSER Georg	in	53
11	HEALY Ben	in	8
12	HOFLAND Moreno	out	-0
13	WHELAN James	out	-4
14	DOCKER Mitchell	out	-6
15	MORTON Lachlan	out	-10
16	BEPPU Fumiyuki	out	-10
17	BARTA Will	out	-15
18	HOWES Alex	out	-25
19	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	out	-32
20	OWEN Logan	out	-55
21	CRADDOCK Lawson	out	-130
22	HIGUITA Sergio	out	-472
			1499

Table 4. Transfer surplus Team Jumbo-Visma

#	Rider	In/out	Points
1	LAPORTE Christophe	in	964
2	BENOOT Tiesj	in	550
3	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	in	497
4	DENNIS Rohan	in	402
5	VAN DIJKE Tim	in	44
6	HESSMANN Michel	in	22
7	WYNANTS Maarten	out	-24
8	MARTENS Paul	out	-35
9	PFINGSTEN Christoph	out	-42
10	TOLHOEK Antwan	out	-162
11	MARTIN Tony	out	-164
12	GROENEWEGEN Dylan	out	-295
13	BENNETT George	out	-326
			1431

Table 5. Transfer surplus Bora-Hansgrohe

#	Rider	In/out	Points
1	VAN POPPEL Danny	in	942
2	VLASOV Aleksandr	in	845
3	BENNETT Sam	in	563
4	HIGUITA Sergio	in	472
5	HALLER Marco	in	205
6	HINDLEY Jai	in	161
7	KOCH Jonas	in	98
8	MULLEN Ryan	in	61
9	ARCHBOLD Shane	in	49
10	BAŠKA Erik	out	-4
11	SCHILLINGER Andreas	out	-8
12	SAGAN Juraj	out	-18
13	SCHWARZMANN Michael	out	-19
14	SELIG Rüdiger	out	-28
15	BURGHARDT Marcus	out	-77
16	OSS Daniel	out	-79
17	BODNAR Maciej	out	-114
18	ACKERMANN Pascal	out	-748
19	SAGAN Peter	out	-881
			1420

Highest negative surplus teams

The winner of the PCS teams season ranking Quickstep Alpha Vinyl was likely to have a negative transfer surplus, as top riders spread out. Team DSM, much debated already, also sees more points leave than coming. Team Astana contracted 14 new riders worth almost 3000 points, but sees 17 riders leave the team worth 4415 points, resulting in a negative surplus.

Table 6. Transfer surplus Quickstep Alpha Vinyl

#	Rider	In/out	Points
1	SCHMID Mauro	in	118
2	VERVAEKE Louis	in	110
3	VAN TRICHT Stan	in	77
4	GARRISON Ian	out	-16
5	ARCHBOLD Shane	out	-49
6	HODEG Álvaro José	out	-284
7	BENNETT Sam	out	-563
8	ALMEIDA João	out	-1664
			-2271

Table 7. Transfer surplus Team DSM

#	Rider	In/out	Points
1	DEGENKOLB John	in	381
2	HVIDEBERG Jonas Iversby	in	57
3	MAYRHOFER Marius	in	39
4	HEINSCHKE Leon	in	37
5	VANDENABEELE Henri	in	15
6	RODENBERG Frederik	in	1
7	NABERMAN Tim	in	0
8	WELSFORD Sam	in	0
9	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	out	-19
10	SALMON Martin	out	-20
11	GALL Felix	out	-36
12	HAGA Chad	out	-64
13	KANTER Max	out	-86
14	VAN WILDER Ilan	out	-110
15	ROCHE Nicolas	out	-147
16	HINDLEY Jai	out	-161
17	STORER Michael	out	-464
18	BENOOT Tiesj	out	-550
			-1127

Table 8. Transfer surplus Team Astana

#	Rider	In/out	Points
1	LÓPEZ Miguel Ángel	in	609
2	MOSCON Gianni	in	519
3	NIBALI Vincenzo	in	445
4	DE LA CRUZ David	in	420
5	VELASCO Simone	in	339
6	DOMBROWSKI Joe	in	177
7	CONTI Valerio	in	130
8	ZEITS Andrey	in	97
9	HENAO Sebastián	in	71
10	RIABUSHENKO Alexandr	in	63
11	GAZZOLI Michele	in	47
12	NIBALI Antonio	in	41
13	BASSO Leonardo	in	21
14	NURLYKHASSYM Nurbergen	in	0
15	STALNOV Nikita	out	-13
16	PERRY Benjamin	out	-26
17	PICCOLO Andrea	out	-43
18	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	out	-45
19	GREGAARD Jonas	out	-67
20	FRAILE Omar	out	-161
21	HOULE Hugo	out	-174
22	IZAGIRRE Gorka	out	-205
23	SOBRERO Matteo	out	-227
24	RODRÍGUEZ Óscar	out	-236
25	KUDUS Merhawi	out	-258
26	SÁNCHEZ Luis León	out	-276
27	FUGLSANG Jakob	out	-447
28	ARANBURU Alex	out	-600
29	IZAGIRRE Ion	out	-792
30	VLASOV Aleksandr	out	-845
			-1436