Season's over, scores are all in.  It's time to crunch the numbers.  Who was good, who was bad, and who really sucked?  Who helped your VDS team the most, and who held it back?  Who was the Most Valuable VDS Rider, and who was the Least, the VDS Lanterne Rouge?   

Well, it kind of depends on what you mean by "Valuable."  There are a couple of obvious ways of measuring rider value… and unfortunately they provide completely different answers.  What I've tried to do is reconcile the two and come up with a definitive ranking of rider values.  The result:  longish post, with a little bit of math, but only one equation and no Greek letters.  If you'd rather just skip to the important bit, i.e.  the rider ranking, it is at the very end.

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